Adam Smith

[MightyWarrior]

Please God someone tell me the pr*ck is not commentating on Saturday nights Saudi card..

The reason he’s with DAZN, after being fired from sky for being a degenerate gambler, is Eddie owes him for giving him the keys to the kingdom, when the bonehead was heading up sky boxing: locking everyone else out and letting the fox into the chicken coop.

[Spud MK2]

Please God someone tell me the pr*ck is not commentating on Saturday nights Saudi card..

The reason he’s with DAZN, after being fired from sky for being a degenerate gambler, is Eddie owes him for giving him the keys to the kingdom, when the bonehead was heading up sky boxing: locking everyone else out and letting the fox into the chicken coop.

read your dms

[CaptainSpacerod]

Personal well being and successes aside, he really is awful as a commentator. He does really need to move aside but won't.

To think we had Reg, both Jim's, Harry Carpenter and this is the 'A Star' we have. To be honest, not many good ones around today. A bit of a lost art.

He is on Buncey's level and below big Ron, for me, and that is saying something.

Not for me, I like ron but for the wrong reasons. Ron is comedy value … the clock face , the Edmund Honda reference….. I love his commentary but for his Ronisms….. a bit like Jim Neilly for his cock ups “Gilbert Eastwood”

Stu, no no no

It’s true Ron does have his amusing foibles but he’s a genuine wordsmith and most of all he’s authentic …. that’s the real Ron we listen to.

With Smith we just listen to an extremely irritating cartoon character that he and his bosses have created

[CaptainSpacerod]

Please God someone tell me the pr*ck is not commentating on Saturday nights Saudi card..

The reason he’s with DAZN, after being fired from sky for being a degenerate gambler, is Eddie owes him for giving him the keys to the kingdom, when the bonehead was heading up sky boxing: locking everyone else out and letting the fox into the chicken coop.

read your dms

Don’t leave the rest of us hanging Spud, spill the beans

[NazNaci1]

Personal well being and successes aside, he really is awful as a commentator. He does really need to move aside but won't.

To think we had Reg, both Jim's, Harry Carpenter and this is the 'A Star' we have. To be honest, not many good ones around today. A bit of a lost art.

He is on Buncey's level and below big Ron, for me, and that is saying something.

Not for me, I like ron but for the wrong reasons. Ron is comedy value … the clock face , the Edmund Honda reference….. I love his commentary but for his Ronisms….. a bit like Jim Neilly for his cock ups “Gilbert Eastwood”

Ron is not fantastic and uses phrases like, 'Check Hook', which I can't stand, just call the punches correctly. However, he is good at reading a fighters body language, generally (ok he had no clue what had happened to Eubank, the other night), ie if a fighter takes a good shot and is a little buzzed or something, he tends to pick up on that....basically, stuff us boxing fans do.

Smith really is pretty clueless when it comes to stuff like that and he has been involved in boxing for how long.....he is just a bit of a gimmick, growling, tossing out the same phrases, and can't call a fight at all.

Neither come anywhere near someone like Steve Holdsworth.

All that said, fair play, each to their own

[Ruthless-RKO]

All smith kept going on about during that main event last weekend was the bloody celebs ringside.

Production fūcked up as well because they kept showing them..

And then each time. Smith got an erection.

Was just repeating the same shit each round

[Grilling Machine]

"50 Cent. Not actually a reference to his APPEARANCE FEE."

[Ruthless-RKO]

"50 Cent. Not actually a reference to his APPEARANCE FEE."

FFS!!

[stujones]

Personal well being and successes aside, he really is awful as a commentator. He does really need to move aside but won't.

To think we had Reg, both Jim's, Harry Carpenter and this is the 'A Star' we have. To be honest, not many good ones around today. A bit of a lost art.

He is on Buncey's level and below big Ron, for me, and that is saying something.

Not for me, I like ron but for the wrong reasons. Ron is comedy value … the clock face , the Edmund Honda reference….. I love his commentary but for his Ronisms….. a bit like Jim Neilly for his cock ups “Gilbert Eastwood”

Ron is not fantastic and uses phrases like, 'Check Hook', which I can't stand, just call the punches correctly. However, he is good at reading a fighters body language, generally (ok he had no clue what had happened to Eubank, the other night), ie if a fighter takes a good shot and is a little buzzed or something, he tends to pick up on that....basically, stuff us boxing fans do.

Smith really is pretty clueless when it comes to stuff like that and he has been involved in boxing for how long.....he is just a bit of a gimmick, growling, tossing out the same phrases, and can't call a fight at all.

Neither come anywhere near someone like Steve Holdsworth.

All that said, fair play, each to their own

Steve Holdsworth used to be good but the last few years he was awful. Clearly lost his interest for the sport. He commentated on a Danny Williams fight (when Danny was doing a tour of small Eastern European countries on a dodgy licence) and seemed genuinely shocked at Danny’s effort….citing “Mike Tyson “ and a non sanctioned win of Dominic Negus as a reason why Danny was still a contender!!!!

[Ruthless-RKO]

I realised from the OP, this was originally an appreciation thread

[SeanBrennan]

I realised from the OP, this was originally an appreciation thread

The thread turned heel!

[Rezzer1967]

I don't doubt his deep and sincere love for the sport, but he will always be for me a uniquely terrible commentator

Agreed. He ruined fights with his annoying commentary again and again and I lost count of the times I had to mute it and miss out on the atmosphere. For me, I will always hate the pr*ck for that. He kept doing a job he was completely sh*t at and didn't seem to give two f*cks that he was ruining fights. He seemed drunk on his power as head of boxing and loved the commentary job and being a big shot. I have zero respect for him whatsoever. Yes he likes boxing and is a nice guy, this entire forum is full of chaps like that and we didn't get flown around the world on a hefty salary. Ruining boxing fights with his awful commentary. I'll never like the chap or give him any credit at all, sorry.

There wasn’t a lot of appreciation for him. This post was halfway down the first page. That said, I couldn’t have put it better myself. Well said sir.

[Spud MK2]

i am going to be honest

i like Adam he is a thoroughly decent bloke but he grovels after Eddie

who can remember eddie being given an exclusive contract … signing loads of fighters then dumping sky

[forcefraser]

Hope he isnt on commentary tonight.

I need a growl free event

[Ruthless-RKO]

Hope he isnt on commentary tonight.

I need a growl free event

He isn’t.
It’s an American show in Saudi.

[Spud MK2]

edit

[Spud MK2]

i like john rawlng

[Spud MK2]

im told ron mackintosh and george groves have
got the bbc gig

[Ruthless-RKO]

[jamesmcdonnell]

i like john rawlng

There was a bried period where Rawling worked with Claude Abrams. Good duo.

[TheLeprechaun]

When is this cockroach going to f*ck off indefinitely

[margaret thatcher]

big man gets his own poster, what a legend

[Rezzer1967]

I’ll be giving that a miss, whatever that is ( what is it ? ).

[keithmoonhangover]

When is this cockroach going to f*ck off indefinitely

I get that you don't like his commentary, but to call him cockroach...

[TheLeprechaun]

When is this cockroach going to f*ck off indefinitely

I get that you don't like his commentary, but to call him cockroach...

In hindsight you're right. I take it back.

It's an insult to cockroaches.