ScottDetonator wrote: ↑15 Feb 2021, 13:15
A good egg? The right sort?
Yes.
Whilst it's all very sweet and charming to give a voice to the earthy ex-fighters, you need a bit of class involved to keep things right and proper. A moderator if you will. Were Smith to expel himself from his commentary role we'd end up like voyeurs at a chimps' tea party in no time. It's the same when that vulgar nouveau who makes the fights is spouting at press conferences; Smith adds old money gravitas. Without that, what have we become?
Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2021, 12:07
Disagree. He's a good egg. The right sort. He's been working for Sky Sports for over 25 years, more than paid his dues. I was initially surprised when he was made boxing's head boy but I get it now and he's got my full support at the moment.
A good egg? The right sort?
Yes.
Whilst it's all very sweet and charming to give a voice to the earthy ex-fighters, you need a bit of class involved to keep things right and proper. A moderator if you will. Were Smith to expel himself from his commentary role we'd end up like voyeurs at a chimps' tea party in no time. It's the same when that vulgar nouveau who makes the fights is spouting at press conferences; Smith adds old money gravitas. Without that, what have we become?
Adam Smith adds old money gravitas? Are you sure you’ve been watching the right show?
Glass Joe wrote: ↑15 Feb 2021, 14:02
Sky should get the cheque book out and bring back Darke and Mccory. never happen thou with the woke generation
McCrory wasn't really that much cop.
Ian Darke was class though, absolute top notch, informed, erudite, measured, and when called for he could inject the right amount of emotion into preceedings.
Smith commentates like someone has electrodes attached to his nutsack, and a mouth full of gobstoppers. He shouts and growls when there's eff all happening, he is an irritant.
He sounds like hes sitting there with a horn watching the fight and blows his load repeatedly during the fight. Multiple orgasms. Faker than the ones my bird pulls.
He’s an abomination. There’s no fcker ever praised him for his commentary because he is simply incompetent. It’s ridiculous that people paying for Sky Sports (or not) are forced to mute just to avoid listening to him rabbit on and on the same sh1te week in week out.
He won’t give a flying fck what clowns like us on a boxing forum think of him. There’s no consequence for him putting in a sh1t shift commentating. It’s been happening for years. As long as he’s there he’ll keep himself doing it. Chances are he’s an egomaniac. A deluded bellend who somehow thinks he’s good at it. All his yes men (like Macklin) are part of the facade. Pish....
To anyone making excuses for him he said that Reece Mould would ‘ come again ‘ while he was flat out on the floor receiving oxygen and medical treatment. He didn’t have the dignity to shut up until we knew that he was ok. He does ruin fights, and how do people on here know that he’s a great boxing man and doing a good job behind the scenes. He’s facilitated people like Chisora and Whyte becoming multi millionaires. He’s awful.
Rezzer1967 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2021, 15:09
To anyone making excuses for him he said that Reece Mould would ‘ come again ‘ while he was flat out on the floor receiving oxygen and medical treatment. He didn’t have the dignity to shut up until we knew that he was ok. He does ruin fights, and how do people on here know that he’s a great boxing man and doing a good job behind the scenes. He’s facilitated people like Chisora and Whyte becoming multi millionaires. He’s awful.
He also got away with that Manchester bombing comment.
I agree with Simmo. He must be a very deluded person to continue to subject the UK boxing fans to this week in week out and think he is doing a good service. It's worrying that someone can be that deluded, quite frankly.
Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2021, 14:14
For me, now that there are so many ex-fighters aka 'untrained broadcast journalists' on the roster, the anchor needs to have significant experience and have either been to a good school (like Smith) or be Oxbridge.
Piffle paffle wiffle waffle or are you on the troll?
I reach for the mute button as soon as his voice infects the broadcast. Him and Macklin have to be the worst combination I've ever heard. Still, they do tend to fulfil the requisite amount of "house fighter" arse kissing, so no doubt somebody's happy with them.
If I was running somewhere like Guantanamo Bay where I was interrogating people, I would threaten them with the prospect of forcing them to watch several hours of Adam Smith commentating on fights. They would be locked to a chair and placed in front of a big screen with no choice but to watch the fights in full with surround sound speakers.
I don't care who you are, you will be spilling the beans eventually. Sooner rather than later.
In terms of what he actually says, rather than the sort of person we may perceive him to be, i think his "content" and delivery would be adequate for general mainstream viewers who tune in twice a year to see Joshua fight. I think he has nothing in his locker for proper, dedicated boxing fans. His observations are very generic. Perhaps that is his role. I got his book from the poundshop a few years ago and it was a reflection of him - presentation was spot on, but not much depth or substance. It was the sort of thing a lot of folk could have written. Poundshop was full of 'em.
zeroprobe wrote: ↑15 Feb 2021, 19:05
For the amount that Adam Smith talks, you don't really know who he is.
Every single sound that comes out of his mouth hits a PR filter before it hits anyones ears.
Give me a Pauli Malignaggi any day. Just anyone with their own opinions and not their employers.
Spot on. He is probably the most "corporate" commentator we've had in the UK over the years. Hard to think of any occasion when he has ever gone off script and given an impassioned, spontaneous point of view or taken somebody to task live on air.
Talks for the sake of it Don't most commentators say one of the first rules of commentary is "remember, sometimes less is more"? Why not apply it.
That thing with Bellew and the Manchester bomber made Smith look ridiculous. I'm surprised he didn't point out Warrington wasn't actually from Warrington and Lara was no relation to Brian.
Cholo_cws wrote: ↑15 Feb 2021, 19:40That thing with Bellew and the Manchester bomber made Smith look ridiculous. I'm surprised he didn't point out Warrington wasn't actually from Warrington and Lara was no relation to Brian.
How many other commentators could have gotten away with that remark and not faced massive backlash? Most would have never been allowed near the comm's box again. Maybe Smith had a quiet word with himself after.
zeroprobe wrote: ↑15 Feb 2021, 19:05
Every single sound that comes out of his mouth hits a PR filter before it hits anyones ears.
Probably because if he strays off the script for more than half a second his robot brain ends up firing off something completely insane like "I would like to clarify that Tony Bellew does not support terrorism". There are already AI text generators that sound more human.
It's absolutely right that these days there is something for all. Workaday sports fans, those who'd be sat at the back of the bleachers, hang on the spittle laced verbal stumblings of Boycott, Tuffnell, Bellew. Those of us who are there to see the chaps and take in the sport as background prefer the class of Gower, Blofeld, Smith. No need for one lot to hate the other lot.
Class ? Smith ? God preserve us..Maybe he’d make a good table waiter in a high-class restaurant ?
he’s obviously got the brain the size of a peanut, he’s thick as a plank, just look at his broadcasting decisions and the people he gets on board .. The overall boxing program quality of Sky has been driven into the ground.
A nothing man, a completely empty suit
If you want class, get Ian Darke back. But that’s not gonna happen with the dullard Smith in charge, as he’s given the f*cking job to himself.
And you can tell all those matchroom yes boys have zero respect for him and think he’s an absolute pillock. Although to be fair I think company Johnny likes him, unsurprisingly.
SUCH a GREAT guy !!!
MightyWarrior wrote: ↑16 Feb 2021, 05:50
Class ? Smith ? God preserve us..Maybe he’d make a good table waiter in a high-class restaurant ?
he’s obviously got the brain the size of a peanut, he’s thick as a plank, just look at his broadcasting decisions and the people he gets on board .. The overall boxing program quality of Sky has been driven into the ground.
A nothing man, a completely empty suit
If you want class, get Ian Darke back. But that’s not gonna happen with the dullard Smith in charge, as he’s given the f*cking job to himself.
And you can tell all those matchroom yes boys have zero respect for him and think he’s an absolute pillock. Although to be fair I think company Johnny likes him, unsurprisingly.
SUCH a GREAT guy !!!
I bet Johnny loves him! He even ends up paid to go to Wimbledon or Darts if there’s no boxing on. An absolute gift of a job for a man who entertained absolutely nobody and gives no insight whatsoever into a fight. Twitter’ Company Nelson could be the man himself.
