Darke and Watt

[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

[Dark Lord Al]

For me the best guy for the job is Jim Rosenthal he did the Tommy Hearns v Duran , Hearns v Roldan and Andries v Hearns in the uk , he was great , calling the fight punch for punch.
Jim also did radio so you have to call it right.

[JazMerkin]

For me the best guy for the job is Jim Rosenthal he did the Tommy Hearns v Duran , Hearns v Roldan and Andries v Hearns in the uk , he was great , calling the fight punch for punch.
Jim also did radio so you have to call it right.

Yeah, but it's not hard to call a fight if it's one bloke administering a heavy beating to another is it

[Dark Lord Al]

For me the best guy for the job is Jim Rosenthal he did the Tommy Hearns v Duran , Hearns v Roldan and Andries v Hearns in the uk , he was great , calling the fight punch for punch.
Jim also did radio so you have to call it right.

Yeah, but it's not hard to call a fight if it's one bloke administering a heavy beating to another is it

Roldan v Hearns was give and take while it lasted

[Fenster]

I've complained about Jim scoring for his favourite and trying to tally his score with the HBO guys over the years, but I still like him. He's been calling fights now for decades. Anyone doing it that long is gonna have plenty of dodgy nights.

At the end of Morales-Maidana he said he was scoring for Morales with his heart. At least he admitted the bias.

[Dark Lord Al]

Jim Watt is an expert after the event !

[Mattyhitman]

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

Yea agree with this. The two of them were the dream team back in the day.

Darke was also top notch when commentating on the live Footy on Sky, was always using boxing analogies, top quality

Watt is a twat.

[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

[ryanman]

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

Oi, thats my dad you're talking about.

[Master]

Watt is probably past his prime and should be put to pasture.

[ryanman]

Watt is probably past his prime and should be put to pasture.

Are you saying his corner should be thinking about getting him out of there?