Your favorite commentator calls

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  1. clinikill

    clinikill Active Member Full Member

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    Mine:

    - Barry Tompkins: How do you like it? How. do. you. like it? (After Leonard-Hagler goes the distance)

    - Don Dunphy: Oh no! Hearns was way ahead on points! (After Leonard stops Hearns)

    - Alex Wallau: He's stopping it! *voice breaks* HE STOPPED THE FIGHT! (After Richard Steele stops the Chavez-Taylor fight)

    Jim Lampley: This is high drama, and the crowd here is greeting it by and large with stony silence. (Tyson-Douglas)

    Yours?
     
  2. doug.ie

    doug.ie 'Classic Boxing Society' Full Member

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    dunphy....in marciano v charles 1....."marciano is unbridled fury here in the 15th!!"
     
  3. ribtickler68

    ribtickler68 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    "Oh my god; he's won back the title at 32!". Harry Carpenter after Ali stopped Foreman. Still gets me when I hear it now!

    "Down, goes Foreman! Down goes Foreman! Howard Cosell during the Lyle-Foreman battle.
     
  4. doug.ie

    doug.ie 'Classic Boxing Society' Full Member

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    I have a few recordings of the old 40s and 50s radio broadcasts of big fights....just so good.....dunphy was the daddy
     
  5. ribtickler68

    ribtickler68 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think Dunphy was fantasic commentating on Ali-Frazier 1, too. Didn't say too much or state the obvious. I still like to listen to some fights; there is a different drama that radio adds.
     
  6. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    David Frost:

    "Muhammad Ali has done it..the great man has done it! This is the most joyous scene .. Ever seen in the history of boxing!!! This is anincredible sceene!?? The place is going WIIILD!? Muhammad Ali has WON!? Muhammad Ali has WON?? By a KNOCKOUT!!! by A KNOCKOUT!!!
     
  7. Slavic Thunder

    Slavic Thunder New Member Full Member

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    Who can ever forget the Frazier-Foreman 1 call by Howard Cosell, screaming into the microphone.

    Down Goes Frazier, Down Goes Frazier, Down Goes Frazier. The Heavyweight Champion is taking the mandatory 8 count, and Foreman is as poised as can be in the neutral corner.

    High drama in the Bahamas. Once Frazier went down, Cosell, was yelling into the mic for the rest of the fight. Damn near lost his voice. I'm not a big Cosell fan, but his call of that fight was great.
     
  8. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    "Nikolai triumph. Nikolai triumph. He has beaten the great menace from the West."
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    Dmitri Ivanovich on Valuev-Ruiz
     
  9. LobowolfXXX

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    Cossell at Holmes-Cobb: "I wonder if that referee is conducting an adVERTizzment for the abolition of the very sport he is a part of?"
     
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    TheSouthpaw Champion Full Member

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    Even when reading this you find yourself doing it it Cosells voice!!..:goodNever gets old.
     
  11. JLP 6

    JLP 6 Fighter/Puncher Full Member

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    "I am humbled by the punishment these two guys are taking"
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  12. StGeorge

    StGeorge Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Great shout and a great call
     
  13. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The Harry Carpenter one remains my personal favourite memory.
     
  14. Kid Cincinnati

    Kid Cincinnati GOOD BOY NATION Full Member

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    "This isn't a boxing match. It's an execution!" - I'm trying to remember. I think it was Stu Nahan in one of the Rocky movies.
     
  15. jdempsey85

    jdempsey85 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    And if he loses, it's because it's been written by Allah the 12 rounds you see here suggests that Allah knows how to spell Barrera, b-a-r-r-e-r-a.