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Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 18:23
by Controversial
brilo33 wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 15:35
i dont mind buncey in bits and pieces, he has love for boxing i dont doubt, people see boxing very different yea he waffles a lot but after time no one can be neutral as you will form friendships with fighters being around the sport it is inevitable
Ditto
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 18:53
by brilo33
Controversial wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 18:23
brilo33 wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 15:35
i dont mind buncey in bits and pieces, he has love for boxing i dont doubt, people see boxing very different yea he waffles a lot but after time no one can be neutral as you will form friendships with fighters being around the sport it is inevitable
Ditto
he is always lively as well , some people are so dourer sometimes,at least bunce can make a local west midlands arear fight sound like a title fight , i dont read any reporters views of a big fight till ive made up me own first as i dont want to be Swade by views , and i find people on this site dont need journalist as there clued up any way they watch fights
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 19:14
by Teddy's Toupee
skanksta wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 14:17
I should add, Bunce's book was superb.
A really good thriller-noire. He IS a journalist, because he can tell a great story.
Maybe he'd make a good Prime Minister?
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 19:31
by Ruthless-RKO
Are you guys trying to get Bunce back on these forums?
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 19:45
by brilo33
there is no good journalist as they will always side with some fighter as they forge relationships so unless you like the fighter there talking about you wont like em, no way is bunce the worst like skanksta says the man the man can tell a fable
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 20:34
by skanksta
Teddy's Toupee wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 19:14
skanksta wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 14:17
I should add, Bunce's book was superb.
A really good thriller-noire. He IS a journalist, because he can tell a great story.
Maybe he'd make a good Prime Minister?
Would be better than the last four…
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 20:40
by brilo33
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 21:00
by TheLeprechaun
Hes always been a tedious character in my view
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 23 Oct 2022, 05:19
by veriton
This thread has got to be a laugh. Bunce is a great journalist, his podcast on the BBC is the best one out there, and his column in BN is the often highlight of the mag every week. Don't get the hate for him, surely must be an element of jealousy in there.
If you're looking for villains, try the youtube simps who give free hits to total bull in the name of access
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 24 Oct 2022, 17:43
by Deserter
veriton wrote: ↑23 Oct 2022, 05:19
This thread has got to be a laugh. Bunce is a great journalist, his podcast on the BBC is the best one out there, and his column in BN is the often highlight of the mag every week. Don't get the hate for him, surely must be an element of jealousy in there.
If you're looking for villains, try the youtube simps who give free hits to total bull in the name of access
The whole thing is nuanced. He's clearly not the UK's worst journalist, given he has fantastic knowledge and experience, and he's a talented writer (really enjoy his column in BN). However, he's professionally compromised by his insistence that he "tells it like it is", only to subsequently do anything but on numerous occasions depending on how he is working for.
Then to compound matters he can be insufferably rude and arrogant on social media.. No idea if that's reflective of his real-life personality (and don't really care either way to be honest), but it needlessly alienates people and just makes him look immature - the threats to track down some posters on this forum constituted embarrassing behaviour by any measure.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 24 Oct 2022, 18:21
by golden_labrador
skanksta wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 14:17
I should add, Bunce's book was superb.
A really good thriller-noire. He IS a journalist, because he can tell a great story.
Dark Trade? I’ve got it here on the bookcase, never got round to it.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 24 Oct 2022, 18:26
by margaret thatcher
veriton wrote: ↑23 Oct 2022, 05:19
This thread has got to be a laugh. Bunce is a great journalist, his podcast on the BBC is the best one out there, and his column in BN is the often highlight of the mag every week. Don't get the hate for him, surely must be an element of jealousy in there.
If you're looking for villains, try the youtube simps who give free hits to total bull in the name of access
he's not the worst but still an arrogant annoying tosser who spouts loads of sheeyat. and why the f@ck would someone like me be an aj fanboi, but then dislike bunce out of jealousy, as if i'd be more jealous of bunce than aj
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 24 Oct 2022, 19:19
by Teddy's Toupee
golden_balls wrote: ↑24 Oct 2022, 18:21
skanksta wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 14:17
I should add, Bunce's book was superb.
A really good thriller-noire. He IS a journalist, because he can tell a great story.
Dark Trade? I’ve got it here on the bookcase, never got round to it.
That's Donald McRae.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 24 Oct 2022, 22:46
by golden_labrador
Teddy's Toupee wrote: ↑24 Oct 2022, 19:19
golden_balls wrote: ↑24 Oct 2022, 18:21
skanksta wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 14:17
I should add, Bunce's book was superb.
A really good thriller-noire. He IS a journalist, because he can tell a great story.
Dark Trade? I’ve got it here on the bookcase, never got round to it.
That's Donald McRae.
correct. The Fixer I have too. And Andy Lee bio. only read the last one.
will keep an eye out for biros
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 02:17
by mickey1975
golden_balls wrote: ↑24 Oct 2022, 18:21
skanksta wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 14:17
I should add, Bunce's book was superb.
A really good thriller-noire. He IS a journalist, because he can tell a great story.
Dark Trade? I’ve got it here on the bookcase, never got round to it.
Dark Trade is brilliant.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 02:34
by Spud
Deserter wrote: ↑24 Oct 2022, 17:43
veriton wrote: ↑23 Oct 2022, 05:19
This thread has got to be a laugh. Bunce is a great journalist, his podcast on the BBC is the best one out there, and his column in BN is the often highlight of the mag every week. Don't get the hate for him, surely must be an element of jealousy in there.
If you're looking for villains, try the youtube simps who give free hits to total bull in the name of access
The whole thing is nuanced. He's clearly not the UK's worst journalist, given he has fantastic knowledge and experience, and he's a talented writer (really enjoy his column in BN). However, he's professionally compromised by his insistence that he "tells it like it is", only to subsequently do anything but on numerous occasions depending on how he is working for.
Then to compound matters he can be insufferably rude and arrogant on social media.. No idea if that's reflective of his real-life personality (and don't really care either way to be honest), but it needlessly alienates people and just makes him look immature - the threats to track down some posters on this forum constituted embarrassing behaviour by any measure.
Spud wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 12:19
An example of a needless attack on the very people who have supported him.
I once tirelessly championed Bunce years ago even though I was in the minority
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 02:39
by Black Sam Bellamy
Whatever you think about him, I doubt he's been busier. So it's obviously working.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 03:44
by big lennox
Black Sam Bellamy wrote: ↑25 Oct 2022, 02:39
Whatever you think about him, I doubt he's been busier. So it's obviously working.
Being a moron is big business in today's hysterical social media world. Bunce is a bit like Jeremy Clarkson in this regard.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 04:00
by Counter-puncher
Boxerbeetle wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 18:18
Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 17:48
I'm staying out of this, don't want none of that Big Dave from Sheffield smoke.
Adios
Very upset.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 04:42
by Dioufy
Bunce is an absolute whopper. Online you cannot disagree with him without him getting personal or condescending.
He’s like a minging, heavy AF set, bald, poorer version of Carl Froch.
Get in the bin ya maggot.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 06:13
by CaptainSpacerod
Dioufy wrote: ↑21 Oct 2022, 16:37
Steve Bunce is just a talking yes man to me now. Pretty much a pointless irrelevance.
Talks shite. Always will from now on.
Shame… as on allegedly with Lillis he was decent.
Agree with this, the early hours double act with Lillis was the high point of his career.
Occasionally on BT Dempsey coaxes flashes of the old Bunce out of him but he’s pretty much just a parody of himself now.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 07:12
by THEBUTCH
Buncey's statement regarding no one has the bottle to say in advance if Fury v Chisora 3 will be a box office flop or success is a weak attempt of subverting what fans ARE actually saying beforehand.
Box office success is one way of measuring a fight (probably the most important in many people's view), but it's not the only measure and what most fans are clearly saying is a third fight between them is a big pile of shit and almost no one wants it !
I clearly remember Buncey saying (on the Costello & Bunce podcast years ago) that Fury v Chisora would be a good match....and this was when Fury was going through his re-emergence stage (post Vlad, pre Wilder). It was a bad idea back then and an even worse idea now
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 07:24
by Ruthless-RKO
THEBUTCH wrote: ↑25 Oct 2022, 07:12
Box office success is one way of measuring a fight (probably the most important in many people's view), but it's not the only measure and what most fans are clearly saying is a third fight between them is a big pile of shit and almost no one wants it !
Box Office doesn't mean a fight is good or not.. It's more commercial value ain't it?
People buy a fight before it airs..
Plenty of fights have done really good numbers, but the fight itself a let down and vice versa.
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 07:31
by THEBUTCH
Yep, and Just because the Fury v AJ or Fury v Usyk match-ups didn't come off, they didn't need to go to the other end of the spectrum and wheel out a perennial slugger in Chisora, so we can all see Fury master him a third time
Re: Steve Bunce - Uks worst journalist
Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 13:48
by Spud
I simply cannot get my head around Bunce’s attitude to the fans.
I do not question his commitment to the sport he clearly works hard … but it is the tweets and him being so dismissive towards the fans is a massive own goal.
Too many people within boxing cannot stand the popularity of social media and them having such a loud voice in boxing.