Funniest boxing quotes?

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What are the funniest quotes youve heard in boxing? These two by Alan Minter have to be up there.

He once said, "Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious." And, "A boxer makes a comeback for two reasons, either he's broke or he needs the money."
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"The referee is the most important man in the ring apart from the two fighters" - George Foreman
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black panther wrote: 14 Apr 2020, 10:28 What are the funniest quotes youve heard in boxing? These two by Alan Minter have to be up there.

He once said, "Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious." And, "A boxer makes a comeback for two reasons, either he's broke or he needs the money."
Alan takes the biscuit every time.
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Joe Bugner is built like a Greek statue, but with fewer moves - Hugh McIlvanney
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"Bomber is not a reference to the terrorist attack here "
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Mayweather: "You don't never wanna give me no credit. HBO should fire you, you don't know sh*t about Boxing"

Larry Merchant: "If I was 50 years younger I'd kick your ass!!!!"
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One more for Larry

After Lamon Brewster knocked out Wlad. His entourage is just shouting in celebration while Larry is trying to interview Brewster to which he says "HEY! If you guys don't shut up I'm gonna end this interview"
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Yesterday I was lying, today I’m telling the truth.

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banjo wrote: 14 Apr 2020, 12:04 "Bomber is not a reference to the terrorist attack here "
Even Alan Partridge face palmed that night.
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Willie Pep said something along the lines of:

I’ve got it made, I’ve a wife and a tv and they both work.
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Anything Tex Cobb ever said. A few below..

https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Randall_(Tex)_Cobb
"All I do is hit somebody in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do."

"Yeah, I've been KO'd. Once. By a Mexican bantamweight. How come? Six of my buddies were swinging him around by the heels at the time."

"Boxing writers are the only people out there who have less constructive jobs than what I do. I don't do nothing but hit people, and those mothers don't do nothing but write about what I do!"

"If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling!"

"No one hits as hard as [Earnie] Shavers. If there was a fighter that hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him!"

"Sure, I'd love to fight him. But I have my price: twenty-five cents and a loose woman." - On the possibility of a fight against Gerry Cooney.

"You're white. Help me!" - To the referee during his fight against Larry Holmes

"I wasn't talking to Holmes in there. Every time I felt like saying something to him I found it hard because he kept putting his left hand in my mouth."

"I don't think his hands could take the abuse." - On a possible rematch with Holmes

"If I eliminate heart disease, if I walk on water, if I come up with a cure for crippled kids, I can't imagine a greater gift to mankind. That is my greatest accomplishment." - On Howard Cosell's decision to quit covering boxing because he was so disgusted by Cobb's one-sided loss to Holmes

"He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents." - On promoter Don King
And my two favourites, also on the Holmes fight:

1. He was asked how he could fight someone whose arms were a foot longer than his were, to which he replied, "Oh, it seemed that way to you too?"

2. "When I got up I stuck to my plan-stumbling forward and getting hit in the face"
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Kaylor about Christie - I‘ve only seen him fight once and that’s the best I‘ve seen of him
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"Fight him! Go and fight this f*cking guy!"

"The referee sucks! Fight him! F*ck the referee!"

"The referee sucks! Fight this motherf*cker! The referee sucks!"

(c) Norman Stone, to John Ruiz during the fight against Roy Jones.


"You've no f*cking balls, you c*cksucker!"

"F*cking jerk off"

(c) Norman Stone, to the referee of the John Ruiz - Andrew Golota fight.

"What did I say him?"

(c) Norman Stone, to the ring officials during the John Ruiz - Andrew Golota fight, after he was DQed for repeated insults to the referee of the bout.

More epic quotes of him here:

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dookus wrote: 14 Apr 2020, 15:13 Anything Tex Cobb ever said. A few below..

https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Randall_(Tex)_Cobb
"All I do is hit somebody in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do."

"Yeah, I've been KO'd. Once. By a Mexican bantamweight. How come? Six of my buddies were swinging him around by the heels at the time."

"Boxing writers are the only people out there who have less constructive jobs than what I do. I don't do nothing but hit people, and those mothers don't do nothing but write about what I do!"

"If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling!"

"No one hits as hard as [Earnie] Shavers. If there was a fighter that hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him!"

"Sure, I'd love to fight him. But I have my price: twenty-five cents and a loose woman." - On the possibility of a fight against Gerry Cooney.

"You're white. Help me!" - To the referee during his fight against Larry Holmes

"I wasn't talking to Holmes in there. Every time I felt like saying something to him I found it hard because he kept putting his left hand in my mouth."

"I don't think his hands could take the abuse." - On a possible rematch with Holmes

"If I eliminate heart disease, if I walk on water, if I come up with a cure for crippled kids, I can't imagine a greater gift to mankind. That is my greatest accomplishment." - On Howard Cosell's decision to quit covering boxing because he was so disgusted by Cobb's one-sided loss to Holmes

"He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents." - On promoter Don King
And my two favourites, also on the Holmes fight:

1. He was asked how he could fight someone whose arms were a foot longer than his were, to which he replied, "Oh, it seemed that way to you too?"

2. "When I got up I stuck to my plan-stumbling forward and getting hit in the face"
Have you seen Cobb roast Holmes years ago,class it was :lol:
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"Hey, you're white. Why don't you do something about this?" Randell Cobb to the ref during the 13th round of the Holmes fight.
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bigjack wrote: 15 Apr 2020, 12:53
dookus wrote: 14 Apr 2020, 15:13 Anything Tex Cobb ever said. A few below..

https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Randall_(Tex)_Cobb



And my two favourites, also on the Holmes fight:

1. He was asked how he could fight someone whose arms were a foot longer than his were, to which he replied, "Oh, it seemed that way to you too?"

2. "When I got up I stuck to my plan-stumbling forward and getting hit in the face"
Have you seen Cobb roast Holmes years ago,class it was :lol:
:OhYes: hilarious that is, managed to find it on YouTube again:

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PredatorHayds wrote: 15 Apr 2020, 12:23 Spinal
I BROKE MY BACK
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.........following a power cut during a really boring undercard fight at the York Hall...

........from the stage end........"keep the lights off I was going to sleep'

..........on the bar side.........'''nah, put em back on i'm reading me paper'
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all of you chumps are gonna be when i whoop him, best ever
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Just watching Tyson v Pinklon Thomas,

Reg Gutteridge describing the ko with this classic,

'His head was flopping around like Worzel Gummidge' :lol:
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DrDuke wrote: 14 Apr 2020, 15:29 "Fight him! Go and fight this f*cking guy!"

"The referee sucks! Fight him! F*ck the referee!"

"The referee sucks! Fight this motherf*cker! The referee sucks!"

(c) Norman Stone, to John Ruiz during the fight against Roy Jones.


"You've no f*cking balls, you c*cksucker!"

"F*cking jerk off"

(c) Norman Stone, to the referee of the John Ruiz - Andrew Golota fight.

"What did I say him?"

(c) Norman Stone, to the ring officials during the John Ruiz - Andrew Golota fight, after he was DQed for repeated insults to the referee of the bout.
If I'm not mistaken Roy's trainer actually dropped Norman when he tried to run up on him during the Press conferences or whatever to the Ruiz-Jones fight.
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I'll fukk you till you love me faggot :yay: :lol:
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Nightmare Roy wrote: 14 Apr 2020, 13:30
banjo wrote: 14 Apr 2020, 12:04 "Bomber is not a reference to the terrorist attack here "
Even Alan Partridge face palmed that night.
:lol:
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Stuarty wrote: 23 Apr 2020, 14:31 I'll fukk you till you love me faggot :yay: :lol:
tyson was a beast,
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