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BoxBuzz wrote:I am the greatest

Is that the track from the early 90's by A House?

If so, I salute you sir, it's a great song by a forgotten band who were also very good live.

R. Kelly made the worlds greatest some kind of tribute to Muhammad Ali.

pete wrote:I'm no fan of rap but Mama Said Knock You Out.

hell yea

i remember anthony mundine appeared in some horrible song a few years back called "knock you out"

vagabundo55 wrote:I thought i'd give this a bump. I heard a bit more of Sun Kil Moon. (After searching for their album for awhile I found it.) It's not the music i'm used to, but i'd reccommend it to anybody who's a fan of music and boxing. Songs like "Pancho Villa" (which is basically an acoustic version of "Salvador Sanchez") are tragic, yet almost inspiring while "Duk Koo Kim" is also tragic, it's a little different, it almost transports you to a place where time doesn't exist. You'd have to listen to it to know what I mean. After researching a little more, I found they have a song titled "Find Me, Ruben Olivares". I have not heard it though. It's a great CD though all around (even though the lyrics are a bit difficult to understand at first, it adds to the tragic style of the music, it sounds like this guy really is singing with feelings of pain and sadness) I'm a huge fan of music as I am a huge fan of boxing so i'd be interested in hearing about any other songs that are good that have something to do with boxing. Just thought i'd give this topic a bump. There are a few websites where you can preview this band's songs. The CD I own is called, "Ghosts of the Great Highway," It's one of those CD's to listen to when you want to relax or you're feeling down. Just a great CD. I've read somewhere there's another verse to "Salvador Sanchez" about a boxer named Battling Suki, or something like that. I'm not familiar with this fighter. Maybe someone here is. He must be an old time fighter.

Just read somewhere that the final boxer mentioned was Battling Siki not Suki. Another fighter with a sad story. I'd reccomend this CD to any boxing fan. It really has good music the more I listen to it the more I like it. Battling Siki was an old time fighter who was found dead at the age of 28. I'm sure many people in this forum know much more about his story than I do.

Easterhouse had a song called "im gonna come out fightin". I used it as an entrance song. Ben Bentley was the ring announcer when I used it , he acctually got pissed off and yelled into the Michrophone "Turn that music down"! The only time Ive ever seen this happen. I was embarrased as hell cuz Ben was great at what he did.

Yall must of forgot-Roy Jones Jr

im not a fan of rnb and rap music but i heard a lyric saying "we hit it harder than De La Hoya"

Always liked the Rolling Stones' One Hit To The Body. The song has some real fire about it. The boxing bit is a metaphor for lost love

(M. Jagger/K. Richards/R. Wood)

You fell out of the clear blue sky
To the darkness below
The smell of your flesh excites me
My blood starts to flow
So help me God

You burst in in a blaze of light
You unzippered the dark
One kiss took my breath away
One look lights up the stars
And it's it's one hit to the body
It comes straight from the heart
One hit to the body
Sure went straight to the mark
So help me God

It's one shot when you love me
One shot when you leave me
I don't need no security
I just need some peace
And it's one hit to the body
It comes straight from the heart
One voice calls out my name
It sure went straight to the mark

One punch and you knocked me down
Tore my defenses apart
One round took me out of the game
You did me some permanent harm
It took just one hit
It took just one hit
It ain't enough for me
It ain't enough for me
It ain't enough for me
It's hurting me baby

Oh your love is a sweet addiction
I can't clean you out of my veins
It's a life long addiction
That has damaged my brain
It took just one hit to the body
To tear my defenses apart
One hit to the body
Sure went straight to the mark
One hit to the body
And it comes straight from the heart
One hit to the body
To the body, to the body
Come straight from the heart

One hit to the body
And it comes straight from the heart

One hit to the body
And it comes straight from the heart
That's all it took, that's all it took
So help me so help me so help me God
So help me so help me so help me God

One hit to the body
And it comes straight from the heart
One hit to the body
And it comes straight from the heart

does any one know the rap/rnb song played at the end of the doco When We were Kings??

oh and have you heard a few of the rap songs Roy jones jr made lol watta joke

i read that his song Yall must of forgot was reffering to the reporters reminding them that he fought quality opponents!! ill have to listen to the song again

KOJOE90 wrote:Grandmaster Melle Mell & The Furious Fives "The Message" mentions Sugar Ray.

"All the children in the daytime, Dallas at night. Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight"

Prince Busters "Earthquake On Orange Street" mentions Muhammad Ali & Sonny Liston.

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Coincidentially (sp?), it also mentions Pretty Boy Floyd, althought it was made long before Mayweather became a force in the boxing scene. Wonder if this song influenced him slightly. Unless Pretty Boy Floyd is a common nickname? Not sure if it's been mentioned, Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer".

vagabundo55 wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote:Grandmaster Melle Mell & The Furious Fives "The Message" mentions Sugar Ray.

"All the children in the daytime, Dallas at night. Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight"

Prince Busters "Earthquake On Orange Street" mentions Muhammad Ali & Sonny Liston.

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Coincidentially (sp?), it also mentions Pretty Boy Floyd, althought it was made long before Mayweather became a force in the boxing scene. Wonder if this song influenced him slightly. Unless Pretty Boy Floyd is a common nickname? Not sure if it's been mentioned, Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer".

Wasn't there a gangster called Pretty Boy Floyd?

Don't forget:

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's - "I Cant Beat Mike Tyson"

Or the much more serious song:

"The Hitter" by Springsteen off of his Devils and Dust album

KOJOE90 wrote:

vagabundo55 wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote:Grandmaster Melle Mell & The Furious Fives "The Message" mentions Sugar Ray.

"All the children in the daytime, Dallas at night. Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight"

Prince Busters "Earthquake On Orange Street" mentions Muhammad Ali & Sonny Liston.

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Coincidentially (sp?), it also mentions Pretty Boy Floyd, althought it was made long before Mayweather became a force in the boxing scene. Wonder if this song influenced him slightly. Unless Pretty Boy Floyd is a common nickname? Not sure if it's been mentioned, Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer".

Wasn't there a gangster called Pretty Boy Floyd?

You're probably right, I'm not quite sure. Either way it's a bit interesting hearing a song that mentions Sugar Ray and Pretty Boy Floyd (even though there's no possible way he was referring to Mayweather), not to mention it's a good song. I still wonder if someone might have heard this song and started calling Mayweather that.

The Body Of An American by the Pogues
Geno by Dexys Midnight Runners
Last Of The Famous International Playboys by Morrissey
Dare Me by The Pointer Sisters (Mark Breland was in the video)

Seamus , is that the Pogues with Shane McGowan?

Yes, but McGowan has been solo for awhile, and the band just ain't the same without him. They performed The Body Of An American on SNL on St Patrick's Day back around 90 or 91.

Your right . The Pogues with Mcgowan are a favorite of mine. However I never knew Shane drank until I saw him sober once. Kinda got in the way on occasion.

You didn't know Shane was a drinker ??? I read an interview with him in about 86, and he said he hadn't been sober a day since he was 14. Then I saw the Pogues at the Vic in 87, and he just staggered around the stage reading lyrics and then tossing the sheets. He drank a bottle of wine and then started another during that show.

All the albums with Shane were great, but the first four were outstanding. No band in the world sounded like the Pogues, Irish folk music played with a punk rock intensity. To keep it boxing related though, did you see the cover of there 1989 album "Peace And Love" ? It has a photo of a boxer on the it. Probably just some young amateur, but you never know. Also, the album opens with the sadly reminiscent ballad "White City" which is about an all-purpose venue in West London, which on occasion featured boxing.

I was just being sarcastic. The expression "I never knew he drank till I saw him sober once". Is just one of those archaic lines indicating that a guy is always drunk, so one would never know that he drank until the first time he was seen sober. The pogues have great stuff.

Plenty of rap tunes name check fighters. a couple of examples:

Big Pun - Beware

Or we can go blow for blow like Evander and Bowe

Scarface - Funky Lil N i g g a

Knockin n i g g a s on they a s s like we evander holyfield

Wu Tang Clan - Uzi (Pinky Ring)

I dance on a n i g g a like my name's Zab Judah

Ja Rule Feat. Fat Joe - New York

Even Roy Jones was forced to (Lean Back)

Jedi Mind Tricks - Animal Rap

Sample featuring Mike Tyson speaking

There are loads, loads more I am sure - that is just a couple off the top of my head..

Rumble In The Jungle - A Tribe Called Quest