Most Overused Cliches in Boxing?

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".

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

Fighter A is stylistically all wrong for Fighter B.

Extremely overused. Rarely right.

 

styles make fights

 

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

 

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.

 

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..."

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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."