Most Overused Cliches in Boxing?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Sugar 88, Oct 28, 2018.


  1. Dempsey Gibbons

    Dempsey Gibbons Member Full Member

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    I've always wished someone would assemble a video compilation of the most overused phrase by everyone in boxing. Fighters, trainers, promoters, announcers all can't help themselves from saying.......

    "At the end of the day".
     
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  2. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    Swearing by body shots. Head shots all day from what I see with my own eyes. But yes body shots matter too. I just see ridiculous emphasis put on them by commentators and fans sometimes and fighters walk through them like nothing compared to head shots most of the time.
     
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  3. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    Floyd loves that one. And "like I said before", even when he hasn't said it before.

    The "sport of boxing" pisses me off. Just say boxing or say the sport. Stop thinking being more wordy is being more intelligent.

    See the same thing in the NBA "in this basketball game". In the "sport of basketball". Just say one mofo.
     
  4. pincai

    pincai The Indonesian Thin Man Full Member

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    I really don't like such and such stock has risen.
    It's stupid really.
     
  5. mono

    mono Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Fighter A is stylistically all wrong for Fighter B.

    Extremely overused. Rarely right.
     
  6. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    styles make fights
    :vomiton22je:
     
  7. Mike T

    Mike T Well-Known Member Full Member

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    He's one of the best cut men in the business.
     
  8. surreal deal

    surreal deal Liverpool via Krypton Full Member

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    Yes. If you want to demean admirers of something, you use it to belittle them-- when it's actually no less legitimate than the next person or thing. Get it in other mediums too. Usually easy targets; I mean you don't hear admirers of Muhammed Ali get called fanboys do you? Better if slightly niche so you don't get a torrent of backlash.
     
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  9. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    I've never seen someone described as anything other than one of the best in business in that regard. It'd be pretty funny to hear a commentator say "Oh no he's got a bad cut and his cutman will be completely hopeless here..."
     
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  10. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    Ali has cult like devotion from men of a certain age. I once said he wasn't that bright and got lambasted by everyone in the room who tried to make him out to be some sort of genius.
     
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  11. RingKing75

    RingKing75 Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    FlIVds an imbecile. He has that catch phrase but turns around and says "work smarter, not harder" lol. hes such a nitwit. He tries to sound wise and knowledgeable but hes a moron with nothing worth hearing.
     
  12. rorschach51

    rorschach51 A Legend & A Gentleman Full Member

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    "He don't want that smoke." Is quickly becoming one of the most annoying to me.
     
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  13. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    I mentioned that on page 2. I wonder how long it'll take to get to a meme level. I can picture a pasty skinny vegan with "He don't want dat yolk" underneath.
     
  14. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    'It could have gone either way' often used by americans to justify some poor foreigner fighter getting completely shafted in america.
     
  15. rorschach51

    rorschach51 A Legend & A Gentleman Full Member

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    That's not only the best most true one, but it doesn't get used enough. Instead people employee triangle theories to why fighter A beat fighter B but lost to fighter C who B beat. All that mess and confusion could have been quickly and honestly summed up with the underused "styles make fight."
     
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