Boxing's best cliches / sayings

[Superheavy]

Here's a few I like:

"You need a knock out to get a draw in Germany"

"He was down more times than an epileptic's door keys"

If a boxer is prone to cuts: "He gets cut receiving the ref's instructions"

[Chris W 1982]

"It's been my best camp yet"

[curtis wood]

im not making any excuses but.........

[TJ77]

Good thread....

Records are for DJ's
He has a punchers chance

[TJ77]

im not making any excuses but.........

i hurt my hand in sparring..Only joking Curtis

[ALI]

"He'll be fighting for a world title within a year"

[Chris W 1982]

"What is Ian John Lewis playing at?"

[Paullow]

"What is Ian John Lewis playing at?"

[rhino222]

'its not a tikkling contest'

'teak tough Ghanain'

'the old one two'

'working well to head and body'

'keeping him honest'

'bob and weave'

'nobbins'

'Reyes gloves are punchers gloves'

'the ref is the closest to the action, he is the only one who can see into the boxers eyes'

'they could fight in a phone box these two'

'touch em up' (incidentally also a Jimmy Savile term used between 1968 and 1994)

'lets get ready to rumble'

'rope a dope'

'and the new'

'holds a shot well'

'when are you out again?'

'Ingle style'

'heavy handed'

'lets get it on'

'the championship rounds'

'judging is subjective'

[dondada]

The catch-all caveat to explain all the sport's ills:

'That's boxing'

[JLP]

The best fighter to come out of Africa since Azumah Nelson.

They breed them tough in (insert any town/country that fits the bill).

This has Fight of the Year written all over it.

He's one of the best cut-men in the business.

Let's go to our unofficial judge, Harold Lederman, Harold...

Both fighters look in tremendous shape.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...bang, bang.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bONO2BrewNU

[semtexreilly]

ive kissed a lot of girls,but ive never kissed the canvas=george chuvalo,class

[antmc]

He needs a knockout to win this now!

[JLP]

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...bang, bang.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bONO2BrewNU

That was shameful.

It was. I don't know what came over him.

[Emmseegee]

Slightly off topic and maybe even worth a different thread, what about some of the shouts you hear from the crowd on fight nights.

The girls shouting "Punch him on the face" always make me laugh but the best one i heard was maybe a year ago. I was at a small hall card for Eddie Doyle vs Gary McArthur and a guy in the row infront of me was shouting instructions. To his defence he was steaming drunk but shouted "Hit him with your left Eddie, thats it your left.....Now hit him with your other left" lol. To make it even better, Eddie Doyle wasnt out until the next fight. Haha. Class.

[lefthook82]

'styles make fights'

'Durable'

Reference to Azumah Nelson everytmie ghanian fights

[TheWigwam]

"He's tryin' ta old man yer"

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

They know their boxing in Liverpool/Glasgow/The East End - no more than anyone else
I have found.

York Hall is the home of British boxing - erm no - no historical fact backs this well worn
cliche up.

A tricky southpaw - Well some are - some tricky orthodox fighters too.

They used to say 'You need to knock them out to get a draw in Italy' but now it is
Germany and soon it will be Britain.

Josephine Baker on British heavyweights 'If all the British heavyweights
were laid out end to end - I wouldn't be surprised' :(

[taffytoon]

Don't get paid overtime.

[banjo]

"These are just arrrrrrrrrm puncheeeese"

"This performance is a noansence"

[johnnygreaves]

You can't put muscle on yer chin

[banjo]

"The bell went ding and I went dong"

[greenyox3]

"He comes to fight"

(usually used when someone is talking up their next z-grade opponent to make the fight sound interesting or worth watching)

[whiskey]

Lightweight boss

Heavyweight kingpin

Middleweight ruler

[Superheavy]

"Dangerous opponent" usually means you can expect a one sided affair

Ditto "better than his record suggests"

"Puncher's chance"

"BANG on the chin"

Klitchkos are robotic but effective