Memo to Steve Bunce - 6 ways to improve your show!!

1. Calm down.
2. Guests are there for you to get their opinion..not for you to give them yours!!
3. Let them start to talk..
4. Let them finish..
5. Keep the questions pertinent to the subject in hand..
6. Try to be more objective...

There you go...

7. Get someone else to present it....

i like it...

Well I can't argue with you there Captain..

I like Bunce in small doses, his over enthusiasm is entertaining.

I love the bloke.

find him funny but hearing him for hours on end makes my head spin.

AlexHuckerby wrote:find him funny but hearing him for hours on end makes my head spin.

His show is only an hour long.

It can sometimes seem a little longer than that, if he's really in one of his hypersonic moods.

i know but one of the sauerland shows he was commentating by himself (think it was cunningham/hernandez) and i was a bit sick of him by the end.

Anyone who watches so much boxing must have a decent insight into it - I just wish he'd stop slobbering over buttocks and say what he really wanted to.

captain carrantuohil wrote:It can sometimes seem a little longer than that, if he's really in one of his hypersonic moods.

and the person forcing you to watch it is...

You really are getting quite accomplished at minding my business for me, Alex. Mind your own, there's a good fellow.

Alex - he might be a boxing fan..

To much of Bunce is a bad thing. His enthusiasm is commendable but irritating as hell.

well all i am stating is - you dont like him - dont watch.

considering you know you dont like the man and theres a show thats called bunces boxing hour that would obviously showcase steve bunce you think you would avoid it rather than watch it and complain about it.

but i guess some people just enjoy complaining.

Again, I don't need your opinion. Trussman asked for mine and everyone else's on the show and Bunce's presentation of it - I offered mine, much as you do several hundred times a week on all manner of things where you are scarcely qualified to do so. I dare say that you haven't been unremittingly positive in every comment that you've ever made, either. I, on the other hand, didn't ask for your imprimatur on what I thought, for good or ill. If you don't like my opinion, ignore it. I find it easy enough to do likewise for you.

Alex I don't get your point. On the one hand your saying too much of Bunce makes your head spin and on the other you're having a go at The Captain stating sometimes Bunces show seems longer than it is and can be unbearable. Ye both agree it seems to me..

Well when theres limited boxing related shows to watch its not as easy as saying don't watch it either.. Also on a thread entitled 6 ways to improve Bunce's show id imagine there'd be some complaining about the man. Captain doesnt need me to defend him but your comments are a bit lame..

think you might need to reread it a bit more carefully then paperbag

Don't always agree with the Captain or you Alex... but every opinion is as good as the next..

behave yourself..If he doesn't rate Bunce he's entitled to express it...

More than entitled on any of my threads..

i dont care that he dislikes bunce at all

Well that's ok then....

Pretty sure I read it properly the first time. I'm sure the thing forcing ppl to watch the show is the fact they're boxing fans and there ain't many boxing related shows on TV.

Just like I seen you complaining about Gary Neville. Nobody forces you to watch him but if you like football and want to watch it on sky you'll have to listen to the man..

To many guests on the Bunce shows. Some of them have a 2 minute chat and then there off. They should cut the amount of guests to 3 or 4 and get a decent interview with them.

Agreed..two minutes isn't a lot when Bunce spends about 1min 50 seconds of it talking..

turn gary neville off wouldnt even know if he still presents football on sky. but massive differences as it isnt called the gary neville show.

if you read it the first time and came to that conclusion then that tells me everything really.

He did a good interview with Warren last night but he's one of the only ones to get any time on the show. His radio show is the same. They could probably make it a 2 hour show to give him more time but he would probably try and get 200 guests on rather than the usual 100.

You're saying if you don't like him don't watch the show. I'm saying as boxing fans we're limited choice wise and may have to put up with him if we want to watch a boxing related show. Simple.. Not as simple to say don't watch it.

Does seem like you picked a fight over nout alex, isn't the first time I've seen you do so with the Captain this week either. No need for it, particularly given that he was agreeing with the crux of your own argument.

Good to see Trussy self moderating, 200lbs of prime American beefster guarding the door to his own thread...thou shalt not pass.

not really all i was saying is you dont like bunce dont watch a show that has him as the main focal point...

at what point was this a fight? and for the life of me i cannot remember even commenting on any of the captains comments so rather confident its a coincidence.

Alex has just turned 18 hasn't he???......Maybe he feels bad having to live with his Mum and Dad etc.....

this site gives him the chance to show he's a Man..

and good luck to him...everybody should man up..in a beefster world.

truss what on earth are you talking about...?

I see your good humour has been restored Truss and Alex's has gone - is Azazel doing the rounds?

Anyway, to drag us back on topic...Bunce's enthusiasm for the sport is great, however he often uses that enthusiasm to get a bit carried away with himself.

Verdict: ok in small doses, and just glad that someone is doing their best to give boxing some airtime, be it on the tv or the radio.

My hypothesis as to your macho postings on here...

Rest assured If I was a female of the species....you'd have to fight me off...

Seconded fists. Better than nothing - What I wouldn't give for Jeremy Paxman to host a boxing show!

You don't think it's an act Fists??? I do...I think he's trying to imitate several American callers and presenters back home...

Believe me they wore thin just as quickly..

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:You don't think it's an act Fists??? I do...I think he's trying to imitate several American callers and presenters back home...

Believe me they wore thin just as quickly..

A loud annoying American

ShahenshahG wrote:I see your good humour has been restored Truss and Alex's has gone - is Azazel doing the rounds?

today ive been slapped, fallen over the curb on my way to work and cut my finger using a knife but that shah... that really hurt.

I do actually believe he is that exciteable yeah Truss, he's relentless!

yeah i get a feeling that he puts some of it on at times but i reckon most of it is all him.

You could watch the dullest fight of the year but after Bunces summary you have to watch it again to make sure you haven't missed fight of the year.
Would sum Buncey up in boxing terms, game but limited, and his as mad as a box of frogs.

dont mind him, can talk sense most of the time, but he can be a bit rude towards his guests and co-presenters, butting in all the time. i love the clip of hopkins giving him an ear full, probably the longest ive seen buncey keep shut.

AlexHuckerby wrote:

ShahenshahG wrote:I see your good humour has been restored Truss and Alex's has gone - is Azazel doing the rounds?

today ive been slapped, fallen over the curb on my way to work and cut my finger using a knife but that shah... that really hurt.

Captain - I see you deserve all the heckling you are getting - I didn't have you down as a happy slapper.

Theres this american one I enjoy even though I find him a little irritating - he always has a feud with Mayweather. Square headed and a irritating grin.

Lederman, Merchant, Lampley, Tessetore and Kellerman I know but I keep forgetting this guys name.

Brian Kenny?

For me Kennys the best presenter in the sport he has very good knowledge him and Atlas were a great partnership.

Shame he's doing baseball now.

Thats it - Brian Kenny - cheers scott- Knows alot and not afraid to ask tough questions. Still goes a little overboard - sort of playing to his image but Its bearable.

yeah remember a brian kenny live interview with mayweather wasnt scared to put him on the spot at all.

dont mind atlas have a lot of time for him but jesus when he starts using his endless metaphors...

Can't stand Kenny personally, seems that's very much against the consensus. Just shows that it's horses for courses, I suppose.

I'm neither here nor there on Bunce, but his enthusiasm is a high point. It's his contradictions and unbearable brown nosing which gets on my nerves now and then. But as others have said, it's not too much of a price to pay considering TV coverage dedicated to boxing is quickly becoming a thing of the past.

His BBC london boxing hour is being cancelled.