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I decided it's time this much underused phrase is given the honour of its own thread. In this thread give examples of those who always showed tendencies for ubiquitous vociferity.

I would say a peak Tyson is candidate #1

How about Zab Judah?

When insults were classy


"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain

"He has no enemies , but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
Winston Churchill, in response

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
Paul Keating

"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
Thomas Brackett Reed

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder

some good quotes, but which of that crew were ubiquitously vociferous. I'd say churchill was more peripherally loquacious. zab judah is a good one.

To my mind the OG: the one who showed vociferity above and beyond the call of duty, was the original giant slayer Jack Dempsey.

Tyson himself has many times openly spoke of his admiration for Dempsey's killer instinct and vociferous nature in fights.

Dempsey by over whelming fusilade of heavy punches.

Fvcking hell MW how did you post all that up so quickly.

Don King must be top of the boxing list. James toney has a claim in the P4P stakes also.

Perhaps this should be put up as a sticky and candidates for the title be awarded on a weekly basis.

i like! Although Don King can be too gracious to be ubiquitously vociferous. he's more temporamentally vociferous.

To make the prestigious claim one has to fulfil both components. Here's a thought- how many pure boxers have been ubiquitously vociferous? Normally the tag is applied to vicious punchers, no?

SticknMove wrote:Fvcking hell MW how did you post all that up so quickly.

Cut n paste

Chris Eubank... .

Hows about Joe Calzaghe for the claim 'only losers win'.

Sounded vociferous to me, but perhaps not ubiquitously so. Afterall he is in a marginal sport.

If you said Sugar Ray Leonard was UBIQUITOUSLY VOCIFEROUS you could call him...

Wait for it...

Wait for it...




UV Ray.

I'm so phucking funny I hurt myself sometimes 8)

yeah but goz ray was hardly even temperementally vociferous. TSK!

I think james toney has to be the best living example so far

I think I may have a winner.

HERBIE 'GONE BANANAS' HIDE

Sonny Liston's brooding temperament, surly nature and underworld connections have to make him a contender, surely?

yeah but is herbie really badass enough to fulfil the mantle fully.

I have got it.

The winner has to be the mArrickville Mauler.

Jeff Fenech.

Despite lacking one punch power his bitterness and whirlwind style put his right up there.

Look at this first fight with Azumah Nelson. Despite putting forth 12 briliant rounds of pressure, he still had enough spite left in him to be disgusted with the decision and show his displeasure on live TV.

His love of KO'ing bouncers who outweighed him by 100lbs, combined with all the mischief he regularly gets up to down under, put him in pole position in my eyes.

Riddick Blowe wrote:yeah but is herbie really badass enough to fulfil the mantle fully.

Don't know about the badass bit, but the fella has a mouth that can engulf the Earth's mantle, which is awesome in its ubiquitousness and he is most certainly vociferous.

The clincher for me came in the gym showdown between Fenech and Toney during the Danny Green spar.

In this verbal clash between these two uniquely vociferous characters, it was Toney who threatened to (and never did) go and get his gun.

In my mind, between two 3 weight boxing champs, a threat to use a fire arm can be viewed as a verbal submission.

Fenech by a nose.

What about Anthony Mundine. He hasn't always chosen his words too carefully in the media.

Ubiquitous = being or seeming to be everywhere.
Vociferous = loud and forceful.

Gentlemen there can only be one winner. Step forward Mr Don King.