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Re: Jim Watt - how did he fair ?
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 15:17
by ThereByTheGrace
Jim Watt is the most honest pundit Sky have - thats why he is on commentary.
I thought he was toe-riffic.
Re: Jim Watt - how did he fair ?
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 17:08
by alexpaterson
ThereByTheGrace wrote:Jim Watt is the most honest pundit Sky have - thats why he is on commentary.
I thought he was toe-riffic.
Toe-tally agree
Re: Jim Watt - how did he fair ?
Posted: 05 Jul 2011, 04:06
by mkirkhope
G0mez wrote:I think analysing/reading is a fight skill he posseses - but as the main rep for Sky's commentary he always sours the occaision with his totally glass half empty approach for me.
For the most part he moans about technical mistakes, rather than give due credit for the other guy having success. If something happens 9/10 times he will pour scorn on those making an error rather than congratulate the one taking full advantage of it. And that colours the action a lot.
He never seems happy behind a mic, like the grumpy old neighbour who you dread to knock on his door when your ball goes over his fence.
Like was said previously, all the casual fans watching Saturday were lead to believe they'd witnessed the worst attempt at a fight in the history of boxing. Whilst Haye's mouth did him no favours in defeat, the fight commentary did him zero favours !
The overall commentary did him lots of favours - If you listened to Rawling with your eyes closed you would think Haye pushed Wlad all the way. And that's why I like Watt. He calls it like it is instead of doing the usual Sky hype job. Even casual fans aren't stupid. My mates watching in the pub who don't see a lot of boxing could tell that fight was a very poor damp squib without being able to hear Jim Watt tell them that.
Long live the Watt!
Re: Jim Watt - how did he fair ?
Posted: 05 Jul 2011, 06:39
by Datsue
Grilling Machine wrote:Crankcase.
He's not sitting down on his wheeeeels!
Rawling was watching an exciting fight. I guess he transforms into a DVD player.
I cannot believe that you just made a G1 Transformers reference in a Jim Watt thread, & that I got that reference without having to resort to Wikipedia.
I have wasted my life.
Re: Jim Watt - how did he fair ?
Posted: 05 Jul 2011, 08:22
by black panther
bengulnaci1 wrote:Jim Watt is class, he called the tactics required to be Wlad from the off and was bang on during the fight.
'I believed Wladimir, I didn't believe Haye...' some weeks before the fight was genius.
Honestly, he might be dour, negative and all that, but he is best, most unbiased commentator we have ever had.
Sometimes he gets it wrong, but he is, for the majority, bang on 
He gets a lot of unwarranted stick on these boards.
x2 I've always thought Watt was/is an excellent commentator.
Re: Jim Watt - how did he fair ?
Posted: 05 Jul 2011, 09:01
by bruthead
ThereByTheGrace wrote:Jim Watt is the most honest pundit Sky have - thats why he is on commentary.
Watt is a class act. We need to hear less of Johnny Nelson and Adam Smith telling people what they want to hear and more of Jim Watt telling it like it is.
Watt is negative when he has reason to be negative. He loves watching Mayweather and Manny.