boxing cliches....... our own little language.

jamesmcdonnell
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Post by jamesmcdonnell »

martinmrts wrote:"teak tough" never fails to get my goat !

That was my pick too - can nobody ever vary this one - 'titanium tough' for instance.
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My personal favourite, though it pertains to only one commentator is ........

'He needs to put some devil in his wooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk' by the peerless Jim Watt.
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"He's gone" (where?)

"Can he survive the round" (always seems a very innapropriate metaphor to me)
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"Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmm punches". Jim Watt again.
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keithmoonhangover wrote:"You'd have to knock him out twice to get a draw."
lmao
confuse the non boxing fans
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TheGoods wrote:"Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmm punches". Jim Watt again.
This thread is too funny
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Post by keithmoonhangover »

Teddy Atlas could have his own web-site purely devoted to cliches.

"Going to the body is like putting water in the basement."

"There's no point in being tall, if you don't know how to fight tall."
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Post by junior pepa seed »

gritty... glen

a real gritted teeth performance...adam smith

crude style...watt

now is he up to the task .....adam smith

listen, listen, listen right listen...lil jimmy mc donnel

stalking him round the ring...

Take him into deep water
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One from last nights prize fighter 'he's a difficult man to prize open'

I keep saying tomatoe can to my mates and always get an funny look in response.
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''you can count the clean punches this fellow has taken on your thumbs''
Jim watt describing a good defensive boxer.
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Hitting him with the twos and threes.
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Another Teddy Atlas one I like.

"That jab talks a few different laguages."
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It's a chess match
He couldn't box eggs
Records are for dj's
He's left it in the gym
Take him to school
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somebodies O has got to go
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"its all about levels"

Makes me want to tear my hair out.
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everything comes off the jab
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I've heard this only once at a boxing match.

"Hit him in the pancreas"
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Old bones Ian wrote:I've heard this only once at a boxing match.

"Hit him in the pancreas"
St pacreas?... :D ... Is that like 'my god, he has just hit him in the Albert halls'....?... :box:
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"No scouting mission from these two"
"This is no time to 'make the tea"
Both from Ian Darke i think....
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the old 'one two'
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