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nick halling is as big a cheerleader as ever, good ol nick couldnt possibly see how kambosos and previously vasquez (vs ritson) won more than a couple rounds at best, bigger company man than anyone on sky now even, worse than big adam smith. he can't even see a case for the other guy, it's straight up 'well how on earth did they score it like that'

his sloppy, wet, spitting deepthroat fellatio of paul smith in the first abraham fight remains the biggest piece of cheerleading i've seen

nick, you literally suck, wash those pubes out of your mouth and have some self respect instead of selling your well worn ass like that

I didn't get the PPV - so have Sky re-appointed Halling?

Can Jim Watt come back also.

he's on dazn now

ya watt had flaws, and he had some off calls, but he wasn't hell bent each time of shoving the same hugely one-sided and biased a-side boi narrative down our throats

he's tied with smith for being sh*t. Do they have a criteria to be a commentator where you have to be a f*cking idiot on commentary? That seems to be in the job description.

There are lots of corporate agendas forced on people.

Everything has likely been completely planned and overthought before they even begin the broadcast. Probably been told what to say in every eventuality. And forced to “positively reinforce” the project they are pushing.

Most of us have to do this shit, to some extent or other, in our own workplaces, right?

Andy Lee is a top analyst and one of the rare guys in the sport who's unanimously liked but didnt he have Selby winning at a canter as well?

Alex Arthur had Ritson comfortably beating Vazquez as well, does Halling have some sort of hypnotic power ??

I feel like Lee can be easily led sometimes by someone who is bent on forcing a narrative, like he's too nice to go against the tide if everyone else there is pushing it? think that happened with him in smith vs ryder too

tbh, they should find someone is totally boring and untalkative and low on energy, and make them a commentator, would be a welcome change from the whole talking nonstop, always pushing a narrative biz

This weekend DAZN we're embarrassing. On Friday they had Sergio Mora, Chris Mannix and Todd Grisham talking about passion for about 20 minutes.

fornicate off folks, just fornicate off

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑02 Nov 2020, 04:43 I feel like Lee can be easily led sometimes by someone who is bent on forcing a narrative, like he's too nice to go against the tide if everyone else there is pushing it? think that happened with him in smith vs ryder too

Lee lost his credibility in the smith Ryder fight for sure. I thought he had a backbone but no. I'm surprised he didn't have chisora winning like bellew did

I watched the Selby fight on DAZN and Andy Lee gave his own opinion of the action.
He isn't someone who would de dictated to by his co-commentator.
He had Selby a clear winner. He gave the Australian credit but felt he was just plodding round the ring, only working for the last 30 secs of each round. He rated Selby's footwork as far superior and said he consistently controlled the action.
As further evidence to back it up both Halling and Lee said Selby's corner were very happy how the fight was going. They are an experienced team who would be on his back if they felt he was losing.
I'm not saying they were right but they called it how they saw it and I thought they both did a decent job.
Myself I wouldn't argue with a 7-5 either way but 118-110 wasn't the fight I saw.

Saying you just can't see the case for Kambo and admitting they were clusless as to how he won ('well what did we miss' lol) is absolutely poor form and terrible reading of a fight, same goes for not knowing how Vasquez coulda won more than a couple rounds

of course it's always the home boi who seems to benefit from nick's 'interpretation', funny isn't it