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After 2 or 3 rounds, he told us that Fowler's jab was dominating and began praising Dave Coldwell's gameplan.

It was already clear Fowler's jab was falling short and Fitzgerald's was more accurate.
We all know Hearn loves to send fighters to his "Northern Tony Sims", but there was nothing in the fight to suggest any gameplan was working.

Was Smith even watching the fight or was he reading notes from a pre-prepared plan?

I thought exactly the same. Any glimmer of success Fowler had and Smith was making a big deal of it.

Fitzgerald winning obviously wasn't in the script for Sky.

Smith has a tendency to gush over fighters he wants to win.

Watching Fowler get decked in that last round was almost as satisfying as watching Ryder clobber Cox last year.

Smith is awful. Bring back Ian Darke!!

At the end of the fight when he was saying I’ve got fowler by two and nelson has fowler by three I was thinking here we go another robbery, but thankfully fitzy got it , I don’t know why they were so set on fowler winning , Fitzy is a massive ticket seller and also a match room fighter , he has a lot more to his game and will do well for them .

black panther wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 05:12 Smith is awful. Bring back Ian Darke!!

THERE'S THE RESPECT!!!

The problem with Smith and it's the same with a lot of commentators in other sports as well is that there has to be some kind of background story and he feels like he has to tell us. Just shut up and commentate on the fight. "Listen to the crowd!" I can't because you won't shut the fornicate up!

It's the same for that clown who does the football on Sky, Martin Tyler, he just fills the commentary with incessant waffle and statistics like we're supposed to be impressed. Though his stats only seem to go back as far as 1992

Adam smith was absolutely f**king embarrassing last night

No need for it...and how he doesn't feel like a total c**t god only knows sky & their biased PR team are a joke,shouldlnt be nowhere near boxing

Fitz trained his heart out to barely be acknowledged by a total no-mark,glad he got the win in front of them divs

I agree with the comments - I didn’t realise how good the likes of Reg Gutteridge and Garry Carpenter were until they were gone.

In a way commentators are a bit like like referees in that you don’t really notice the good ones.

It’s just that these dats everyone wants to be centre of attention

bripez wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 08:35 Garry Carpenter

Wasn't he a character in the first episodes of Eastenders?

You didn't know good Reg and Harry were until they were gone?

Get used to him he is going nowere fast.

He strings Froch along like a puppet “cracking atmosphere isn’t it Carl?”
“Really catching fire now isn’t it Carl?”
“Are you listening to my bullsh1t Carl?”
To which Froch gives yes sir yes sir 3 bags full....

thechump wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 09:12 Get used to him he is going nowere fast.

True

I don’t know where he came from or how he got the job, but whatever it is will keep him there for quite a while yet

Don’t worry with a bit of luck we’ll get DAZN over here and that’ll be the end of Sky

Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 09:53 Don’t worry with a bit of luck we’ll get DAZN over here and that’ll be the end of Sky

I think them coming to the UK is almost a dead cert but I have some concerns. That Smith is seemingly not seeing this banana skin coming and acts unaware that Sky are about to be fcking up the arse hard by the ramrod hard DAZN leads me to worry that he is going to land a plum job with DAZN. If that is not the case, he is a total dick for allowing the wolf into the henhouse

His commentary and knowledge is okay.

Froch is not very good. Macklin is reasonably good but repeats himself over and over again. Bellew is capable and will continue to improve over the years. He is biased towards Scouser which lets him down but he is the cream of the current Sky crop.

keirw wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 04:44 Smith has a tendency to gush over fighters he wants to win.

This. His constant cheerleading of Liam Smith made me want to throw up.

Did he ever explain wtf he was thinking with the bomber comments at Usyk V Bellew?

bripez wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 09:52

thechump wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 09:12 Get used to him he is going nowere fast.

True

I don’t know where he came from or how he got the job, but whatever it is will keep him there for quite a while yet

Why can’t he just be the head of boxing. Does he need to commentate.

Did the previous head of boxing commentate too?

keirw wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 04:44 Smith has a tendency to gush over fighters he wants to win.

Watching Fowler get decked in that last round was almost as satisfying as watching Ryder clobber Cox last year.

Damn right!
If only we could have seen Adumb's face

i wonder if fast car 'don kinged' fitzgerald after the fight

JimStone wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 10:39 His commentary and knowledge is okay.

Froch is not very good. Macklin is reasonably good but repeats himself over and over again. Bellew is capable and will continue to improve over the years. He is biased towards Scouser which lets him down but he is the cream of the current Sky crop.

The team of Andy Clarke and Andy Lee are on a different level to the other Sky commentators.

tobyh5 wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 09:58

Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 09:53 Don’t worry with a bit of luck we’ll get DAZN over here and that’ll be the end of Sky

I think them coming to the UK is almost a dead cert but I have some concerns. That Smith is seemingly not seeing this banana skin coming and acts unaware that Sky are about to be fcking up the arse hard by the ramrod hard DAZN leads me to worry that he is going to land a plum job with DAZN. If that is not the case, he is a total dick for allowing the wolf into the henhouse

I would love this to happen,adam smith and sky have had all our pants fown for too long now so its about time tgey got their comeuppance.

thechump wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 14:22

tobyh5 wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 09:58

Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 09:53 Don’t worry with a bit of luck we’ll get DAZN over here and that’ll be the end of Sky

I think them coming to the UK is almost a dead cert but I have some concerns. That Smith is seemingly not seeing this banana skin coming and acts unaware that Sky are about to be fcking up the arse hard by the ramrod hard DAZN leads me to worry that he is going to land a plum job with DAZN. If that is not the case, he is a total dick for allowing the wolf into the henhouse

I would love this to happen,adam smith and sky have had all our pants fown for too long now so its about time tgey got their comeuppance.

If they do launch here they should pull out all the stops to sign Darke and Dempsey

Boxing Prospect wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 14:18

JimStone wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 10:39 His commentary and knowledge is okay.

Froch is not very good. Macklin is reasonably good but repeats himself over and over again. Bellew is capable and will continue to improve over the years. He is biased towards Scouser which lets him down but he is the cream of the current Sky crop.

The team of Andy Clarke and Andy Lee are on a different level to the other Sky commentators.

Agreed.