Best quote or one liner from a boxer...

[Ash-Weston]

As a lot of you have seen over the years certain boxers like a bit of trash talk and come out with some witty one liners and now im asking your opinion whos quote or one liner has had you laughing or youll never forget.....Mine has to be Frank Bruno when asked by a ringside reporter(think it was at a Calzaghe fight) about something to do with Bruno and Bruno just turned round, gave him the death stare and replied "Theres nothing wrong with my head". To me it beat any Muhammed Ali, Mayweather or Hopkins one liner ive ever heard......Frank i salute you! But you guys on here know a lot more and have heard a lot more spouted out of a boxers mouth sio id like to hear what you come up with.

[dondada]

Not sure if it's apocryphal or not but one laid at the door of Tex Cobb...at a heavyweights tribute dinner with all boxing royalty there, about 30 years ago or so (Ali, Louis, etc), Cobb gets up to make a toast.

"I'm honoured to be in the same room as some of the baddest n*****s on the planet!"
An enraged Renaldo Snipes stands up.
"I'm not going stand here and let you call me a n*****r!"
"Relax...I wasn't talking about you."

[Ash-Weston]

Hahaha class

Keep em coming ppl

[reggaereggae]

Randall Cobb is one of the funniest boxers around. He has his own chapter in this booK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Boxing-Quo ... 213&sr=8-1

It's a great book and one that I still pick up by Harry Mullan. An update would be fantastic.

[n1ebf]

"2008, World Champion, 2009 - Undisputed....Now get off my train, get off my train...chooooooooo, choo - chooooooooooo!!"

I put the choo choo bit in myself ;;-)

[Stegsie]

For me, it has to be when I was at a VIP Boxing Promotions "Superstars" event with all the VIP fighters. They had to take turns doing all types of physical tasks (just like the Superstars TV show from the 70's)

Anyway - Michael Gomez was taking penalties and was struggling to score any. Before his last one, he picked the ball up and walked over to the keeper. He asked him "Can you fight? If not, I suggest you don't save this one!" All done in jest or course; but funny as anything! For the record - the keeper did save it; then ran like hell!!

My daughter came along with us and I tell you what; Gomez made her laugh all day long. He's a cracking, bloke. Top class.

[Adamj1987]

For me, it has to be when I was at a VIP Boxing Promotions "Superstars" event with all the VIP fighters. They had to take turns doing all types of physical tasks (just like the Superstars TV show from the 70's)

Anyway - Michael Gomez was taking penalties and was struggling to score any. Before his last one, he picked the ball up and walked over to the keeper. He asked him "Can you fight? If not, I suggest you don't save this one!" All done in jest or course; but funny as anything! For the record - the keeper did save it; then ran like hell!!

My daughter came along with us and I tell you what; Gomez made her laugh all day long. He's a cracking, bloke. Top class.

good ol gomez

[chinny]

An enraged Renaldo Snipes stands up.

Was it Renaldo that inspired your user name?

[Shirow]

Lloyd Honeyghan when he as interviewed after fighting Gene Hatcher where he ran over and cracked Hatcher before he had got off his stool. His explanation - "well the bell went ding and I went dong!"

He might have come out with more classic since his boxing days but unfortunately i can't understand a word he's saying. ;;-)

[Roars Like Me]

well my favourite daft quote rather than one liner -

'Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." - Alan Minter

[Matt W]

I like Lloyd Honeyghan's comment before he fought Curry. I might not be word perfect but it was something along the lines of, "I can't wait to get in there and start punching him on the head. I'm going to smash his face in."

I can't remember which fight he was referring to (may be Holmes?) but a classic line from Tex Cobb relates to how he got knocked down but then,"got up and continued doing what I'd been doing, which was mainly stumbling forward and getting punched in the face."

[jonp]

The Lloyd Honeyghan quote is correct but it wasneither ~Gene Hatcher or Curry it was the fight against Johny Bumphus

[Deserter]

The Lloyd Honeyghan quote is correct but it wasneither ~Gene Hatcher or Curry it was the fight against Johny Bumphus

Wasn't that also the occasion where he added the great line "I don't get paid for no overtime!" or was that against Hatcher?

[dondada]

An enraged Renaldo Snipes stands up.

Was it Renaldo that inspired your user name?

No, mate - good guess though.

It was this guy: http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=617&cat=boxer

I'm a big nicknames fan and always thought this was one of the worst, ever. So bad it made me laugh. Dunno why.

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Greg Haugen was a pretty entertaining interview ala 'Tex' Cobb and his quote about his fight against Pernell Whittaker

'Sweet Pea - he will be spilt pea by the time I've finished with him'

And on the fact Vinny Pazienza draws 20000 to watch him fight in Providence, Rhode Island

'So what? Its because there is nothing there! They get a 20000 crowd in Providence to watch the tide come in'

Pazienza discussing how good the opposition of 65-0 Ecuadorian, Eduardo Bolanos in an IBF lightweight title elimninator.

'I don't care if he fought his mother 65 times - she would have got lucky at least once'

Frank Bruno in getting KO'ed by a barrage of big punches in his world title against Tim Witherspoon

'I tell you something, he didn't hit me with a spoon'

[n1ebf]

Frank Bruno in getting KO'ed by a barrage of big punches in his world title against Tim Witherspoon

'I tell you something, he didn't hit me with a spoon'

[WelshDevil]

"First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends." - Willie Pep

[Chambers2]

James Toney parading round the ring after his win against Holyfield (I think) shouting....."NEXT!!! WHO'S NEXT????"



Enzo Calzaghe between rounds screaming "DON'T FCUK IT UP!" .....after one of his fighters had spent the penultimate round going toe-to-toe with his oppo despitye being in a BIG points lead

[Jon Saxon]

Ok I have a mildly pretty good memorey for this stuff (I hope)

"Jeepers creepers I guess he was just to big..but 'hey' wait till the guys in work find out I was fightin for the heavweight title tommrow"Tom 'Doughboy' Tomackek after getting hauled out the audience to fight 'The Duke' after Mike Williams failed a coke test.


"I didnt plan on this motherfuka beatin on my ass" a candid Cris Areola after the Adamak fight.

"please dont be rude" Koysta's all time classic that shut up that asshole Jim Gray on Showtime.

"your a transvestite, I want to kiss you on those big lips" Mad Mike

"I bet his wifes no oil painting either" Steve Holdsworth on Martin Joley

"It was a pigment of his imagination" Fwank on Scott Welsh "first white heavyweight since Marciano" quote after Akinwande fight.

[Quixall]

" I can look you in the face and say you gonna get KNOCKED OUT...........IN YOUR HOME TOWN"

Naz before the kevin kelly fight

[Matt W]

Lennox Lewis - "He can't beat me" AFTER Rahman separated him from his senses.

[Bricks]

Lloyd Honeyghan when he as interviewed after fighting Gene Hatcher where he ran over and cracked Hatcher before he had got off his stool. His explanation - "well the bell went ding and I went dong!"

He might have come out with more classic since his boxing days but unfortunately i can't understand a word he's saying. ;;-)

That was the bumphus fight. Poor gene didnt get a chance to last a round.

Also before the Curry fight Honeyghan said in his inimitable jamaican cockney which was so prevalent in 70's and 80's london " i dont come here to mess around, i dont take prisoners".

Chris Eubanks was the master of making speeches before fights and trash talking in a pompous way.

I love the time he called a press conference before the fight with Steve Collins and said he would be "unveiling a new hard man style". And the trash talking with Benn was great too.

Riddick Bowe and Herbie Hide could always talk and they were very entertaining in their fight.

Hide tho is a supreme trash talker and has proved it fight after fight. I loved his talking around the time he wanted to fight audley harrison and danny williams and skelton. he called Audley "audrey".

Also Clinton Woods had a good style of talking him and antonio tarver at that press conference was brilliant when clinton said "you want to learn some manners pal".!! and tarver was great too acting like it was an inconvenience for him to have to condescend to fighting woods for his world title!

[n1ebf]

" I can look you in the face and say you gonna get KNOCKED OUT...........IN YOUR HOME TOWN"

Naz before the kevin kelly fight

my recollection was : "I can honestly say, without any shadow of a doubt, that you are gonna get knocked SPARK out!"

to which Kelley replied, "I'm gonna smoke your boots"....

At the time you really believed Naz - who as a person I don't have any time for prsonally - but my did Kelley have other ideas......I was rooting for the underdog in all honesty, i.e. KK, at 4am on radio 5 Live, when Naz went down I thought, "lucky punch"........when he hit the deck the second time the Englishman in me sat the fck up out my bed and said "COME ON NAZ!!!"

[alexpaterson]

Not the best ever but James Toney "Im old School, Hopkins is a old fool" Quality

[hitman09]

"I only talk to women when I fornicate with them so you should be quiet, unless, you know." -- Tyson again, doing his bit for public relations.