The BBC are nuthuggers - official

[Medved]

I downloaded some fight couple months ago and couldnt get USA broadcast so i downloaded a SKY Sports one, it was UK fighter vs USA. The way these guys were describing this dude was like he was the best fighter on the planet and was winning the whole fight almost every round. In the end the UK dude lost a clear UD by a landslide and the dumb announcers were making more excuses that Dawson.

UK Hypes UK fighters
USA Hypes USA FIghters
Canada Hypes Canadian Fighters

[Dave Rado]

I downloaded some fight couple months ago and couldnt get USA broadcast so i downloaded a SKY Sports one, it was UK fighter vs USA. The way these guys were describing this dude was like he was the best fighter on the planet and was winning the whole fight almost every round. In the end the UK dude lost a clear UD by a landslide and the dumb announcers were making more excuses that Dawson.

UK Hypes UK fighters
USA Hypes USA FIghters
Canada Hypes Canadian Fighters

That was actually not at all typical. For instance, the Sky announcers had Dirrell beating Froch by two rounds, and Valuev beating Haye by one round. They're usually surprisingly objective in their scoring, although they always root for the home fighter.

[Earl-Hickey]

So what do you expect them to say?

Haye is ducking klitschko cos he's chicken?

A deal hasn't been reached we are not aware of all the facts, if the BBC said that they'd be in for a lawsuit

[SirTomJones]

Everyone is biased.

[Dave Rado]

So what do you expect them to say?

Haye is ducking klitschko cos he's chicken?

A deal hasn't been reached we are not aware of all the facts, if the BBC said that they'd be in for a lawsuit

Lawsuit? Is Haye planning to sue Dan Rafael? LOL! That's just silly.

A good journalist wouldn't need to use words like "duck" in any case. All he needed to say was that Haye pulled out of his negotiations with Wladamir Klitschko earlier this year, for reasons that are far from clear, having apparently been offered the contractual terms he had been asking for; that he had previously pulled out of two fights with the Klitschkos; that Audley Harrison has been beaten four times by journeymen and is a long way from being a world class fighter; but that due to it being an all-British world title fight, and due to the publicity it is getting in the media generally, it may be the biggest fight in terms of audience and revenue since Lewis-Bruno, although as a title fight it is far less meaningful, and far less likely to be competitive, than that fight was.

[Dave Rado]

Everyone is biased.

If by biased you mean everyone is rooting for one side or another, that's an exaggeration; but even to the extent that it's true, it is perfectly possible to be biased in that sense while still being objective. And it is the job of all good journalists to be just that.

I support Celtic football club, but I don't pretend they're a great side any more, although they were a great side when I first started supporting them, in the late '60s. I'm objective enough to admit that if the present team played in England, they would be highly unlikely to be able to avoid relegation from the Premier league; but I'm biased enough to cheer for them whenever they play, and to watch videos of their glory days in the past, when they were the best team in Britain and one of the best in the world.

Or to give a boxing analogy, I was biased enough to root for Froch when he fought Dirrell, but objective enough to admit that Dirrell should have got a narrow decision win on the cards.