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

First topic message reminder :

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...

I liked Kenny, that's a big shame if he isn't doing boxing anymore. Another with boundless enthusiasm and his jousts with Mayweather which can be seen on YouTube are stuff of legend.

Really keV? That's a shame, he even mentioned a comment of mine on there once haha.

Disappointing.

he mentioned it last week that this run of shows will be the last.

is that just due to him too busy on boxnation or is it bbc caring about boxing less?

He didn't say but I think it's a BBC thing because the shows on a Thursday night.

prettyboykev wrote:His BBC london boxing hour is being cancelled.

Because of BoxNation?

He never said but I think it's a BBC thing just by the way he said it.

It was during last weeks show when he had that guy on who talks about amateur boxing every week.

Would be strange for it to be a BBC choice, it's their most downloaded show.

Ron Boddy.

That's the man. I know it's only an hour long as well. It may be because of boxnation because he can't do the 5live fights any more.

theres a chance that the haye/vit fight might be on boxnation. that would surely attract a few viewers

I don't think it will what casual fan would fork out £60 for a six month subscription to a boxing channel they may never watch again?

£15 for one night is one thing but a six month contract is another.

this is true i raised that question with "boxnationhelp" didnt get an answer. gotta wonder how many people arent subscribing due to the 6 month contract. must admit it turned me off a tad.

Did anyone notice that last night on Bunces Boxing hour - when Bob Arum was on the phone...the screen showed a picture of Vegas with Bob's name at the top and then underneath his name it said "See Me In Me Heels and Ting".

WTF??

Maybe they got him confused with Oscar?

After a brief stint on google - i think it's something to do with Top Ranks opening music of something.

No idea why it was there last night though! Made me chuckle!

I much prefer Bunce's boxing hour to Ringside; I'd rather Bunce's over-enthusiasm than Johnny Nelson struggling to read off the auto-cue and Adam Smith just blowing his own trumpet on how good Sky boxing is

Adam Smith creeps me out, I'd leave my kids with Gary Glitter over him.

Definitely not the sort of bloke you want on a long train journey and the toilets are out of order.

Unbeatable Georgey Groves wrote:I much prefer Bunce's boxing hour to Ringside; I'd rather Bunce's over-enthusiasm than Johnny Nelson struggling to read off the auto-cue and Adam Smith just blowing his own trumpet on how good Sky boxing is

It's when his over-enthusiasm veers into inane nonsense I can't stand, which unfortunately fills the entire hour.

Find him hilarious at times when he starts talking about one thing and 5 minutes later still talking but ending up talking about some fight in the 60s completely off the original subject.

Scottrf wrote:Adam Smith creeps me out, I'd leave my kids with Gary Glitter over him.

Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like him, horrible little rat he is.

What I don't get about Sky is their pundits. Watts alright but his scoring of fights is sometimes baffling. McCrory is difficult to understand but doesn't seem to have anything interesting to say any way and Johnny Nelsonn is ... well he's Johnny Nelson!

I wish they would give Richie Woodhall and Jamie Moore a bit more TV time and getting Spencer Fearon back in wouldn't be a bad idea. If Bob Meed wasn't so ugly he would be a perfect host for ringside but unfortunately he scares children he looks like an evil Hunch back of Notre Damme.

Tris Dixon is another good guest they have on from time to time but they always revert back to the same old guys time and time again.

Oh and then there's Barry 'no one else is getting a word in' McGuigan who is truly awful.

prettyboykev wrote:I don't think it will what casual fan would fork out £60 for a six month subscription to a boxing channel they may never watch again?

£15 for one night is one thing but a six month contract is another.

Folk will shell out for New year Gym membership and then stop going the 2nd week in January!

prettyboykev wrote:What I don't get about Sky is their pundits. Watts alright but his scoring of fights is sometimes baffling. McCrory is difficult to understand but doesn't seem to have anything interesting to say any way and Johnny Nelsonn is ... well he's Johnny Nelson!

I wish they would give Richie Woodhall and Jamie Moore a bit more TV time and getting Spencer Fearon back in wouldn't be a bad idea. If Bob Meed wasn't so ugly he would be a perfect host for ringside but unfortunately he scares children he looks like an evil Hunch back of Notre Damme.

Tris Dixon is another good guest they have on from time to time but they always revert back to the same old guys time and time again.

Oh and then there's Barry 'no one else is getting a word in' McGuigan who is truly awful.

Yeah Barry does get a bit excited. I hate Duke McKenzie the most - has a personality like a plank of wood.

DAVE667 wrote:

prettyboykev wrote:I don't think it will what casual fan would fork out £60 for a six month subscription to a boxing channel they may never watch again?

£15 for one night is one thing but a six month contract is another.

Folk will shell out for New year Gym membership and then stop going the 2nd week in January!

New years resolutions mate they are funny things. Designed for fat people who feel guilty for eating a years supply of food in a week!

Do you think casual fans who want to watch the Haye vs Vitali fight will subscribe to a channel they might never watch again for 6 months to the tune of £60? I very much doubt it.

you know it's funny but buncey has grown on me. Could never stand him. Would groan with annoyance when he appeared on five lives fighting talk too. But after listening to his boxing hour a fair bit i can now put up with him as a kind of amusing, harmless, over enthusiastic big kid!!! Plus it's funny him itching to cut in when people are talking on shows! Gets proper restless and ends up so high pitched!!