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Larry Holmes on the continued low blows by Gerry Cooney:

"I knew he wanted my Cup. I just didn't know he wanted that one."

"On a scale of 1-10, I'll give myself a B." - Evander Holyfield

Goodnight, Irene wrote:"On a scale of 1-10, I'll give myself a B." - Evander Holyfield

Don't you just love him? Our old block-headed warrior.

We love ya, 'Vander

I'm going to f*** up the quote, but one of Harry Greb's opponents (Chuck Wiggins, I think) remarked after fighting him something along the lines of ...

"I thought somebody opened up a boxcar and dropped a train load of boxing gloves on my head."

Funny, people.-
"They call Ray Robinson the best fighter pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce."

"Lay down so I can recognise you."

both Willie Pep

The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters.

- George Foreman

Goodnight, Irene wrote:"On a scale of 1-10, I'll give myself a B." - Evander Holyfield

thats amazing he has no need for numbers thats why he still boxes

Mike Tyson - "I broke my back"

banjo wrote:Mike Tyson - "I broke my back"

After the Etienne victory! Lol if the winner has a broken back, then what sort of state must the loser be in?

Charley Goldstein after being told Marciano didn't look so good: "The guy on floor don't look so good either."

tommy "hurricane" jackson's manager after jackson was dropped three times by nino valdez and stopped by the three knockdown rule:

"my guy was just getting warmed up.'

a club fighter in cincinnati after being outpointed:
"if just two of the judges had voted for me i'd have won."

I'm not going to make any predictions, but I'll win - Frank Bruno

To a question about his West Indian heritage: I'm not Indian, I'm black!- James Toney

To being criticised for losing to 37-year-old Daniel Zaragoza: Actually, he's 39 - Wayne McCullough

Sure there have been deaths in boxing, but none of them serious - Alan Minter

I'm just a prawn in the game - Joe Bugner

The referee stopped it too early - Audley Harrison, after getting knocked clean unconscious for several minutes by Michael Sprott.

It's a shame that someone has to lose this fight, but lose it someone will have to, unless the referee scores it a draw, and he won't want to do that unless he really can't pick a winner - BBC commentator Jim Neilly submits his entry in the "no sh1t!" award

I preferred when boxing was on ITV - Nigel Benn, as a pundit, ensures he'll get no further work with the BBC

The Germans are a boring race - Frank Maloney, as a pundit on Setanta, explains why then technical boxing style is popular in Germany

Almost everything ever spoken by Mike Tyson.

"To being criticised for losing to 37-year-old Daniel Zaragoza: Actually, he's 39 - Wayne McCullough" - Oliver

[responding to a man in the crowd yelling "get him in a straight jacket"] Put your mother in a straight jacket, you punk ass white boy! Come here and tell me that and I'll fornicate you in the ass, you punk white boy. You faggot. You can't touch me, you're not man enough. I eat your asshole alive you bitch. fornicate you you ho. Come say to my face and I fornicate you for everybody. You bitch. Come on you bitch. You scared coward, you not man enough to fornicate with me. You can't last two minutes in my world bitch. Look at you, you scared now you ho. Scared like a little white pussy. Scared of the real man. I'll fornicate you till you love me faggot.


Golden words of wisdom by Mike Tyson

pablothunder wrote:
Funny, people.-
"They call Ray Robinson the best fighter pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce."

"Lay down so I can recognise you."

both Willie Pep

i love them 2

When I was a kid, I remember reading a quote from an opponent of Ray Leonard who got KOed. The post fight announcer asked him "Which punch hurt you the most".

The reply was "The last one."





I just googled "Famous boxing quotes" and came up with these:

“To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other”
- Jack Handy (SNL)

“All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.”
-Jack Dempsey

“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”
-Ali

“When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.”
-Bob Seger

“Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.”
-Fred Mitchell

“The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.”
-Bob Verdi

Grimm wrote:[responding to a man in the crowd yelling "get him in a straight jacket"] Put your mother in a straight jacket, you punk ass white boy! Come here and tell me that and I'll eff you in the ass, you punk white boy. You faggot. You can't touch me, you're not man enough. I eat your asshole alive you bitch. eff you you ho. Come say to my face and I eff you for everybody. You bitch. Come on you bitch. You scared coward, you not man enough to eff with me. You can't last two minutes in my world bitch. Look at you, you scared now you ho. Scared like a little white pussy. Scared of the real man. I'll eff you till you love me faggot.


Golden words of wisdom by Mike Tyson

To be fair tgo Tyson, the guy who shouted out "put him in a straight jacket", well where the fcuk was that guy when Tyson adressed him? He certainly did not go nowhere near Tyson thats for sure!

That guy certainly got more than he bargained for with that one!

Dunno about that. Tyson was fighting back tears. The guy was probably laughing in anonymity.

Tex Cobb has some gems:

There was a big dinner honouring heavyweights of the past and present. Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and Larry Holmes were all there. So were Renaldo Snipes and Tex Cobb. Tex Cobb got up to give a toast. He said, "I'm honoured to be in the same room as some of the baddest niggers ever." Renaldo Snipes stood up, and said, "I'm not going to stand here and let you call me a person!" Cobb said, "Relax. I wasn't talking about you."

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

"I can do my sport no greater service." On being informed that commentator Howard Cosell had hung up his mike after being so appalled at the one-sidedness of the Holmes-Cobb fight. (Amen to that!)

witherspoon wrote:Tex Cobb has some gems:

There was a big dinner honouring heavyweights of the past and present. Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and Larry Holmes were all there. So were Renaldo Snipes and Tex Cobb. Tex Cobb got up to give a toast. He said, "I'm honoured to be in the same room as some of the baddest niggers ever." Renaldo Snipes stood up, and said, "I'm not going to stand here and let you call me a N* word!" Cobb said, "Relax. I wasn't talking about you."

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

"I can do my sport no greater service." On being informed that commentator Howard Cosell had hung up his mike after being so appalled at the one-sidedness of the Holmes-Cobb fight. (Amen to that!)

The Snipes comment is genius

I have heard that Cobb said he would run another fifteen rounds with Holmes if it'd get Cosell off the air as a football commentator as well, but never directly. Anyone able to confirm he said that?

Another one I've heard about but not witnessed is Holyfield making a long-winded speech about giving an apple to the man who taught him so much, & Holmes is there (after they fought) saying something along the lines of, "Just hurry up & give it to me, already" & Holyfield handed it to someone else.

I always liked this one, so cynically typical of the man --- "If I hurt your feelings back there, Sonny --- is it Sonny? Jerry. If I hurt your feelings back there, Jerry, so...fvcking...what!?" - Larry Holmes.

anything that comes out of ricardo mayorgas mouth appropriate or not

NICARAGUAN NIGHTMARE wrote:anything that comes out of ricardo mayorgas mouth appropriate or not

Ain't every day one fighter tells another he is, "Fat...fat, like my baby's ass..."

witherspoon wrote:Tex Cobb has some gems:

There was a big dinner honouring heavyweights of the past and present. Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and Larry Holmes were all there. So were Renaldo Snipes and Tex Cobb. Tex Cobb got up to give a toast. He said, "I'm honoured to be in the same room as some of the baddest niggers ever." Renaldo Snipes stood up, and said, "I'm not going to stand here and let you call me a N* word!" Cobb said, "Relax. I wasn't talking about you."

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

"I can do my sport no greater service." On being informed that commentator Howard Cosell had hung up his mike after being so appalled at the one-sidedness of the Holmes-Cobb fight. (Amen to that!)

classic! i believe the last line to snipes was "sorry renaldo, i was talking about the bad nig***s.

another gem is when cobb was asked what his major was when he enrolled at abilene christian university. cobb responded, "academic probation".