Darke and Watt

[porkypara]

Watt alwys does my head in but I like Darke.

When he was teamed up with Glen in the 90s was the best tv team IMO.

[BIG H]

Watt alwys does my head in but I like Darke.

When he was teamed up with Glen in the 90s was the best tv team IMO.

Yep agreed on both counts

[ryanman]

Agree on Watt. So irritating. I like Darke though, his voice creates atmosphere. He isn't an out and out boxing man though so I don't expect him to be an expert.

[JazMerkin]

Darke is ok, but Watt basically decides who's winning a fight at the opening bell & sticks with it from there or does his best to make sure they win on 'his card'. Plus he doesn't half want EVERY fight stopped at the slightest excuse. Admittedly there are some fights where I can see his point (imo both Pac-Cotto & PBF-Mosley should have been stopped at about 8th-10th rounds as it was clear neither was going to win, weren't in the fight & they just took unnecessary punishment), but a fight like the Katsidis-Guerrero fight, I never felt Katsidis was out of it, even as he fell further behind.

[BIG H]

Darke is ok, but Watt basically decides who's winning a fight at the opening bell & sticks with it from there or does his best to make sure they win on 'his card'. Plus he doesn't half want EVERY fight stopped at the slightest excuse. Admittedly there are some fights where I can see his point (imo both Pac-Cotto & PBF-Mosley should have been stopped at about 8th-10th rounds as it was clear neither was going to win, weren't in the fight & they just took unnecessary punishment), but a fight like the Katsidis-Guerrero fight, I never felt Katsidis was out of it, even as he fell further behind.

That made me laugh! So true

[Dark Lord Al]

Im nt saying i dislike Darke so much as he just doesnt call the fight punch for punch , he just fucking talks about bullshit.

[BIG H]

Darke does talk some crap, but it wouldn't be teh say without him. My great memories of fights on SKY on inlvolve Darke & McCrory

[ryanman]

Darke is ok, but Watt basically decides who's winning a fight at the opening bell & sticks with it from there or does his best to make sure they win on 'his card'. Plus he doesn't half want EVERY fight stopped at the slightest excuse. Admittedly there are some fights where I can see his point (imo both Pac-Cotto & PBF-Mosley should have been stopped at about 8th-10th rounds as it was clear neither was going to win, weren't in the fight & they just took unnecessary punishment), but a fight like the Katsidis-Guerrero fight, I never felt Katsidis was out of it, even as he fell further behind.

That made me laugh! So true

I think British commentators on the whole seem worse than the Americans when it comes to the 'finding a theme early and sticking to it' thing. Watt is the worst for this though. A few good jabs land in round 1 from a fighter and you can be sure that even in round 12 we will be hearing about how the jab has controlled the fight etc.
On the other hand, HBO in particular annoy me by changing theme TOO easily. Like one guy is getting smashed up bad, then lands one or two punches and they go mad 'HERE COMES FIGHTER X! FIGHTING HIS WAY BACK INTO IT!' and start talking straight away like its been a back and forth fight.

[BIG H]

As long as we don't have to listen to Duke McKenzie it's all good