Thread: Article about Jim Watt's scoring of Pascal-Bute

As I banged on about last night, Jim Watt is an absolute moron when it comes to scoring boxing fights and Sky really need to replace him with someone who actually knows what they're watching. How he had Bute winning that last night is truly astounding. An article has appeared on WBN, and clearly I'm not the only one who thinks Sky need to have a word...

World Boxing News - Fans puzzled as Sky pundit Jim Watt scores fight for Lucian Bute

I turned it off after the first 5 rounds because bute was doing nothing, and i knew at that point he needed a knockout to win. Bute stops punching when he gets hurt.

Originally Posted by bzkfn

As I banged on about last night, Jim Watt is an absolute moron when it comes to scoring boxing fights and Sky really need to replace him with someone who actually knows what they're watching. How he had Bute winning that last night is truly astounding. An article has appeared on WBN, and clearly I'm not the only one who thinks Sky need to have a word...

World Boxing News - Fans puzzled as Sky pundit Jim Watt scores fight for Lucian Bute

Pundit? Idiot is the right way to describe him.
Wonder what MEDS he is taking, most be some good stuff to be able to take him that far from reality.

Watt may have passed his sell by date, they need to find someone who can read the game better.

Originally Posted by awdleyfuturehalloffamer

I turned it off after the first 5 rounds because bute was doing nothing, and i knew at that point he needed a knockout to win. Bute stops punching when he gets hurt.

He didn't punch at all until the 11th. He must have been hurt when climbed into the ring.

I've wondered how anyone finds him to be anything but a joke. It's not just how off base he always is, but that voice, my god! He is insufferable to me, it actually makes me angry the way he pronounces things. I think muting the sound is really lame but I literally do it if the best quality stream I can find is from Sky sports. Between the accent and the bagpipes, Scotland has got to be the worst sonic entity in the universe.

At the same time, the HBO crew were VERY biased in favor of Pascal.

Lederman's scorecard was way too wide, the fight was much closer. Kellerman was going on about how Bute wasn't throwing, while ignoring the fact that Pascal wasn't throwing much either.

Originally Posted by beenKOed

Originally Posted by awdleyfuturehalloffamer

I turned it off after the first 5 rounds because bute was doing nothing, and i knew at that point he needed a knockout to win. Bute stops punching when he gets hurt.

He didn't punch at all until the 11th. He must have been hurt when climbed into the ring.

He got hurt either in the first or second round. I give him that round one was a feel out round. I was surprised that he came back in the 12 round.

The guy who wrote the article is clearly an imbecile himself though. He gave Bute 2 rounds. I thought that Pascal won and thought that he would but he certainly did not score a 10 rounds to 2 shut out. It was a fairly close fight. I don't see what your problem is really. If Watt had it 115-114 to Bute that is hardly the worst score card ever as some people are calling it. I don't think Bute won but the early rounds could have went either way so uncommitted and lack lustre was the performance from both men. Then in the last three rounds Pascal literally stood there and got punched for huge sections of each round even boasting after how he enjoyed the pain of being punched in the head because "..that's boxing baby". What a bell end. You all obviously hate Jim Watt because he doesn't sound like David Niven or Howard Cosell. The American commentators on every single boxing match I have watched in the last ten years are at least a million times worse and far more grating. So embarrassing, uneducated and crass are their performances that pets hurl themselves out of 15th floor windows and birds purposefully fly into the engines of Boeing 747's to avoid hearing any more.

Sky should use Ritche Woodhall as a co commentator.

By far the best man for the job

Really... what did Pascal do aside from 10 second flurries at the end of the rounds? Flurries that half of the shots landed. Bute scored the entire round... from start to finish. Had better technique and showed some real ring-generalship.

If anything, because the fight truly proved nothing, I would have given both of them a draw. Really!

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Really... what did Pascal do aside from 10 second flurries at the end of the rounds? Flurries that half of the shots landed. Bute scored the entire round... from start to finish. Had better technique and showed some real ring-generalship.

If anything, because the fight truly proved nothing, I would have given both of them a draw. Really!

Yet again showing how you are unable to score a boxing match

What a pathetic article. How can you admit to not hearing the commentary but have the arrogance to criticise it? Ridiculous.

Watt said all through the fight, with not much happening it's possible you can interpret these rounds different.

I grew up less than 3 streets from Jim Watts family, my best mate of 20+ years had a grandfather who trained us and some of the top Glaswegian boxers including a young Ricky Burns, he also fought Watt in the amateurs and was close with him and because of this I've met Watt on a few occasions.

So you'd think after all that, that I may have a biased opinion and really like Watt.

But no he is an absolute dick when it comes to scoring fights. Granted I didn't have the gap nearly as wide as the judges but pascal clearly won the fight.

Every card I watch he annoys me, I hate his voice, and it's made worse because my accent is identical. I just hope I don't sound like a tool when I talk about boxing.

Originally Posted by Fenster

What a pathetic article. How can you admit to not hearing the commentary but have the arrogance to criticise it? Ridiculous.

Watt said all through the fight, with not much happening it's possible you can interpret these rounds different.

My thoughts exactly