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Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 06:48
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.

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 06:51
by jamesmcdonnell
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.

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 07:41
by chinny
"He's gone" (where?)

"Can he survive the round" (always seems a very innapropriate metaphor to me)

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 07:43
by TheGoods
"Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmm punches". Jim Watt again.

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 07:43
by Re-up Gang
keithmoonhangover wrote:"You'd have to knock him out twice to get a draw."
lmao
confuse the non boxing fans

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 07:44
by Re-up Gang
TheGoods wrote:"Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmm punches". Jim Watt again.
This thread is too funny

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 07:51
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."

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 08:58
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

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 10:00
by mchuffy
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.

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 10:29
by chiggsy
''you can count the clean punches this fellow has taken on your thumbs''
Jim watt describing a good defensive boxer.

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 11:26
by mchuffy
Hitting him with the twos and threes.

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 11:37
by keithmoonhangover
Another Teddy Atlas one I like.

"That jab talks a few different laguages."

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 13:08
by Andypittcov
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

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 13:30
by Old bones Ian
somebodies O has got to go

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 15:08
by smoothmoves
"its all about levels"

Makes me want to tear my hair out.

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 15:11
by rhino222
everything comes off the jab

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 17:05
by Old bones Ian
I've heard this only once at a boxing match.

"Hit him in the pancreas"

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 17:58
by rhino222
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:

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 18:01
by Mick the Mechanic
"No scouting mission from these two"
"This is no time to 'make the tea"
Both from Ian Darke i think....

Re: boxing cliches....... our own little language.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 18:07
by rhino222
the old 'one two'