Songs You Instantly Identify With Boxing...

[Goodnight, Irene]

I posted this thread in Other Sports & jotted out a bunch of tunes synonymous for me with our (un)fair sport. Couldn't be bothered writing them a second time, but which songs & musical pieces for you are instantly associable with Boxing?

[Tuff Customer]

Eye of the Tiger
The Authority Song
Boom Boom Mancini's fightin' Bobby Chacon

[ropeadope]

gonna fly now

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Fight The Good Fight- Triumph

We requested from a radio station after I spent a couple minutes convincing the DJ that I wasn't lying about Buster Douglas knocking out Tyson. The premise can be applied anyway, but that accentuates it for me.

[Ilya Muromets]

"Help Me Make It Through The Night" from "Fat City" (1972). Best boxing movie ever I think.

[hhaehre]

Night train

[wsbuf]

Mama said knock you out.... LL

[Goodnight, Irene]

"Black & Yellow" by Wiz Khalifa. Why? It's the entrance song Paul Williams came out to in his second fight with Sergio Gabriel Martinez.

Should've used, "Black & Blue" for his exit song...

[crusader]

"Black & Yellow" by Wiz Khalifa. Why? It's the entrance song Paul Williams came out to in his second fight with Sergio Gabriel Martinez.

Should've used, "Black & Blue" for his exit song...

[yancey]

For some reason, I think of boxing sometimes when I listen to one of my all-time favorites, Howlin' Wolf, singing
"Smokestack Lightnin'."

[Norm]

Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley

When Livingstone Bramble had a training camp set up in Whitefish, MT, it was a song he always started his warm up with.

[hurlock]

culture club's do you really want to hurt me

makes the ring entrance a sombre walk tugging at the heart string's DD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPE1QqKCNSw

[flatnoseflynn]

Another on bites the dust by QUEEN......

[Shpati]

Victory

[allworld80]

Can't remember who used it for their ringwalk music (Moorer maybe), but KRS-One "Step into a World".

[chucktaylor]

"Step in the Arena" by Gangstarr

[jaclem2]

......body and soul -----the great song (instrumental music only) ...played throughout the great john garfield boxing movie of the same name...

[BoxBuzz]

jaclem....careful you're going to appear to be senior in your citizenry.......

However I remember when rock music was really played with rocks.

[jaclem2]

...buzz...maybe if you learned to play body and soul and stella by starlight and other legitimate songs you'd start getting real gigs again instead of those crappy new year's eve parties you have to play because all of the good groups are already booked...

[bollox]

The Rolling Stones.....One Hit (to the body)

[Deno1986]

Shipping up to Boston - Dropkick Murphys
used by: John Duddy, Andy Lee (sometimes), few other American based Irish boxers.

O Fortuna - Carmina Burana
used by Bernard Dunne while also using Irish Rover when walking to the ring.

Irish Rover - The Dubliners
Practically every Irish boxer or boxer who claims Irish heritage has walked out to this song.

[bollox]

Simon and Garfunkle's The Boxer

[Ilya Muromets]

Irish Rover - The Dubliners
Practically every Irish boxer or boxer who claims Irish heritage has walked out to this song.

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But is it appropriate?

"Three times around and then she went down, 'twas the end of the Irish Rover!"

[llabwons]

The Final Countdown by Europe. It was used in all the build up and TV previews for Hagler v Leonard. I cant even stand listening to it as Hagler was my all time hero and I was almost suicidal when he lost!

[Deno1986]

Irish Rover - The Dubliners
Practically every Irish boxer or boxer who claims Irish heritage has walked out to this song.

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But is it appropriate?

"Three times around and then she went down, 'twas the end of the Irish Rover!"

Appropriate or not it is a song I identify with boxing. It does get a good atmosphere going aswell.