BBC London 94.9 Boxing Hour - 11/8.

A couple specifically for you Buncey-


NYC Promoter William Buckley addressing the crowd from ring centre at one of his shows -

"Everybody watch your valuables. We have pickpockets and newspapermen present."

source: Guinness Boxing Shorts by Graeme Kent (1992)

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Canadian novelist Morley Callaghan is sparring with Ernest Hemingway.

Callaghan writes "It must have been exasperating to him that my left was always beating him to the punch. His mouth began to bleed.... His tongue kept curling along his lip, wiping off blood.... Suddenly he spat at me; he spat a mouthful of blood; he spat in my face."

Callaghan steps back in shock and Hemingway explains "That's what the bullfighters do when they're wounded.... It's a way of showing contempt."

At a later session, F. Scott Fitzgerald is volunteered as timekeeper, charged with regulating one-minute rounds with two-minute rests between. Fitzgerald becomes so enthralled with the boxing that he forgets the clock -- until the out-of-gas Hemingway makes a desperate lunge at Callaghan, and gets knocked on his back by a hard cross to the jaw.

When Fitzgerald cries out, "Oh, my God! I let the round go four minutes!" Hemingway spits his bullfighter's contempt in a new direction:

"All right, Scott...if you want to see me getting the **** kicked out of me, just say so. Only don't say you made a mistake."

Source: TodayinLiterature.com

 

''Sometimes, it isn't important if you win or lose. At the end of your career they say, ''He went out like a champion.'' He went out as a champ, but poor, because he didn't make any more money. You know, what are you going to live on? Pride? When i started out, i earned $40 per fight. Forty, and then you have to pay 30% to your team. Then, you have to pay for your shorts, your robe, your thingies. And if you lose, or get knocked out, they force to to rest for 45, 60 days. So it's very difficult for a boxer to really make it. When you finally get there and your making a lot of money, you tell me, do you want to quit?''

Erik Morales said this in 2007

 

when asked about francois botha being the underdog tyson responded with

"i dont know anything about that, i dont know anything about numbers numbers i just know what i can do.. Kill this mother****er!"

 

ok pretty famous one though.

When Jack Johnson was speeding in his car in one of the southern states and was pulled over by a police officer. The officer fined him $50 he gave him a hundred dollar bill the officer said "i don't have change to change this" Johnson responded with "Keep it im coming back the same way"

 

"He's the second coming of Ali!"

Barry Hearn following Herbie Hide's victory over Michael Bentt.

 

What's so crazy about standing toe to toe with someone saying "I am"?

Well he's in HOF so Rocky quotes should be allowed!!

 

Not a direct boxing quote but shows the kind of guy Max Baer was:

When he was having a heart attack in his hotel, literally dying, he rang down to reception to get help. The receptionist said 'A house doctor will be right up' to which max replied 'A house doctor? No, dummy, I need a people doctor!'

Cracking jokes even at the very end. Nothing like the portrayal of him on Cinderella Man.

 

:good

real message to that quote Buncey

 

What time are you on Steve, 9?

 

I do detest him, I really do. It’s no joke. I can’t stand him

Anyone know who said it lol

 

This has got to be on the show

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