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26. Veteran fight manager Dan Morgan on Stanley Ketchel “Ketchel was an exception to the human race. He was a savage. He would pound and rip his opponent’s eyes, nose and mouth in a clinch. He couldn’t get enough blood. His nickname “Assassin”, fit him like a glove.”

Jaywheel wrote:-Iron chin / Glass Jaw
-Peach of a punch
-Got exposed
-Roll with the punches
-Fighting inside a phone booth
-Down and out for the count
-Saved by the bell

"Exposed," is a great shout. It's the knee-jerk mating call of all the Current Scene morons.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:

Jaywheel wrote:-Iron chin / Glass Jaw
-Peach of a punch
-Got exposed
-Roll with the punches
-Fighting inside a phone booth
-Down and out for the count
-Saved by the bell

"Exposed," is a great shout. It's the knee-jerk mating call of all the Current Scene morons.

Yup, and people wonder why fighters are obsessed with not losing.

great game keith! here's my entries:


1. He's a good big man.

2. He couldn't break an egg.

3. He's on queer street!

4. When a boxer smiles it means he felt that one!

31. That one shook him down to his boots (a Jim Watt classic)
32. Dug it in underneath the elbow.
33. A man whose punches could bring down the walls of a city (an Ian Darke classic)
34. That final bell must have sounded like an orchestra (Reg Gutterdidge talking about a fighter who was getting pummelled)
35. Work three minutes of every round.
36. Educated pressure.
37. Up on his toes

1. When God's With you, Can't no man be against you
2. If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense
3. I'll have to talk to my management we'll see who we're gonna fight next.

gilgamesh wrote:1. When God's With you, Can't no man be against you
2. If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense
3. I'll have to talk to my management we'll see who we're gonna fight next.

gilgamesh wrote:1. When God's With you, Can't no man be against you
2. If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense
3. I'll have to talk to my management we'll see who we're gonna fight next.

Good shout......one of the most disappointing answers in boxing....call someone out!

crusader wrote:

gilgamesh wrote:1. When God's With you, Can't no man be against you
2. If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense
3. I'll have to talk to my management we'll see who we're gonna fight next.

Good shout......one of the most disappointing answers in boxing....call someone out!

Absolutely, I hate how ubiquitous it is too. Nearly every fighter says it. It's part of why I'm now a big Brandon Rios fan, he nearly says he'd fight Victor Ortiz for free.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:"I sure ain't Tommy Morrison..." - Larry Holmes, as he beat up on Ray Mercer

Hahahaha! Only Holmes would come out with something like that!

"Everyone's got a plan until they get hit"

Some of my favourite commentator comments

41. "Well, they made it a round." - Foreman v Cooney
42. "We have a new era in boxing." - Tyson v Berbick
43. "It's like watching Bambi getting mugged" - Reg Gutteridge on SRL
44. "Hamed has power of his own, but we have not seen that of yet" - A second later Hamed knocks Kelley down.

45. Ali's rant after Foreman v Norton, where he tells the commentator that he will take him to Africa and cook him.

Lloyd Honeyghan

On getting to Gene Hatcher before he was off the stool.

- “The bell went ding and I went dong”
- “Mickey [Duff] don’t pay me no overtime”

Joe Gans, “Tell Mom I’m bringing home the bacon.”

Vinne Pazienza

"When his legs turned to spaghetti I was all over him like sauce..."

I've mentioned it before, but I just love Larry Merchant's bluntness in this little soundbyte, where he felt strongly Vernon Forrest had just received a gift. I will paraphrase Forrest's words...

Forrest: "I just wanna thank everyone involved in my camp, you know, it was great, my family, my trainer, my cornerteam ---"

Merchant: "Would you like to thank the judges?"

Not a classic, but one that lives in the mind.

51. "A sneaky right from Ali, another sneaky right from Ali......."

.......the rest is history.

"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him" - Mike Tyson

" The Best Part of that round was their boxing trunks" - Larry Merchant after a dull round between Ratanachai Vorapin and Tim Austin

" If you guys don't shut up I'm gonna stop this interview" - Merchant yelling at Brewster's entourage, who were screaming while he was trying to interview Brewster following his KO win over Wladimir Klitschko.

" I broke my back" - Mike Tyson

"Let me pour some water on your balls"

"When he starts punching at you, just hold your hands out that stops everything" - Hasim Rahman's corner giving him the advice that would get him knocked out in the 4th round against Lennox Lewis.

59. "You're blowing it kid, you're blowing it." - Angelo Dundee

Goodnight, Irene wrote:"I sure ain't Tommy Morrison..." - Larry Holmes, as he beat up on Ray Mercer

Larry Holmes

60. "Rocky Marciano couldn't carry my jockstrap." Larry Holmes

keithmoonhangover wrote:60. "Rocky Marciano couldn't carry my jockstrap." Larry Holmes

Kill the Body and the Head will Die.

Bobbin & Weavin wrote:

keithmoonhangover wrote:60. "Rocky Marciano couldn't carry my jockstrap." Larry Holmes

Kill the Body and the Head will Die.

Hunter S THompson

Why, in the title of this thread, does the plural of cliche have an "apostrophe s," while quotes is spelled correctly (no apostrophe)? (Just one of my pet peeves.) When did this insidious spelling become rampant? I see it all over the place these days--particularly since the past five years or so. Is this what they are teaching in school these days? I doubt it. Or are today's teachers just as lazy and guilty and not correcting their students because the teachers too don't know any better? Folks!!! The plural of things is not spelled with an apostrophe s! Stop it, please!!!