Funny or remarkable quotes, anecdotes and short stories around boxing

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  1. The Fighting Yoda

    The Fighting Yoda Active Member Full Member

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    Okay, I will start with a few anecdotes, but I am sure there are many more.

    At first a very famous one about Jack Johnson.
    Jack Johnson loved fast cars. Once he was stopped by an police officer, cause he drove to fast. The officer wanted to have $50 for a speeding ticket. He gave the officer a $100 bill and told him to keep the change, as he would be returning later at the same speed.

    The next one is about Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson.
    Louis and Robinson lived on the same block in Detroit. Louis was 17 and an amateur fighter and Robinson was 11. They were mates and the younger Robinson admired the older Louis. He often carried Louis backpack, when Louis went to gym. Later Robinson moved to Harlem. When Louis was training for the fight against Primo Carnera at Pompton Lakes, he invited his old friend to the camp. Afterwards Ray Robinson also wanted to become a boxer.

    And the last one about Max Schmeling.
    After his loss against Joe Louis, he fought Adolf Heuser for European Heavy Title in the Adolf-Hitler-Arena in Stuttgart. Schmeling won that fight via knockout first round. The next day a big German newspaper mixed up something and they wrote: Max Schmeling knocked out Adolf Hitler in the Adolf-Heuser-Arena.
    But I don`t lnow what happened to the poor journalists afterwards.

    It would be interesting to read more of those anecdotes or quotes or short stories or whatever around boxing, if people like to share them.
     
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  2. WAR01

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    A certain opponent of Alis was in a pornographic film.
     
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  3. William Walker

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    Ken Norton?
     
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  4. The Fighting Yoda

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    Which one?
     
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  5. William Walker

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    I hadn't either. Although technically it's true. Norton was in two blaxploitation films in the mid 70s, and I think these two qualified as pornographic films.
     
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    Ha ha, yeah. I love the 70s, but there were some weird things from what I understand. I looked in2 the Mandingo films briefly at one time. They're not anything like Shaft, but yeah, they're rather forgettable. Not that I don't like Shaft. I do.
     
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  7. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I’ve served one of Lloyd Honneyghan’s cousin a few times at my shop. Lovely bloke, always has a smile on his face and will always have a 5/10 minute chin wag if I’m not too busy. He claims to have whacked a grand on Lloyd at 11/1 odds in the Curry fight and obviously made a killing off it.

    I’ve tried searching for the odds before but the best I could find was at 7/1 or a source that say that Curry was such a big favourite that some odds makers weren’t even taking bets!

    I’ve also had a fun little chat at work with a gent that used to have his taxi driven regularly by Tommy Farr’s nephew, who always claims that Tommy should have won against Louis. He wasn’t born at the time, but I’m sure being part of the family he’d have had that pushed on him from a young age.
     
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  8. Mike Cannon

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    Apparently back in 1910 on the blistering hot day of the Johnson=Jeffries fight, Bat Nelson mistook a huge vat of cold Lemonade for water and proceeded to bathe in the vessel.

    Again with Jeffries, his glove came off in the last round of the Sharkey fight, so he finished the round hitting Sharkey with his bare hand.

    In the 2nd Kecthel=O,Brien fight, in the last round after being knocked down by " Steve " O,Briens head landed in the resin box in his own corner, and was counted out thus.

    When told by dozens of sports writers that he stood no chance with Armstrong , Zivic replied " maybe all the fighters in the top ten could beat me, but I will beat Armstrong because , he delivers to my delight " end of quote.

    That Jake made his wife come to the Janiro fight so she could witness the beating, because she had remarked how handsome Tony was.

    Keep well.
     
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  9. Thread Stealer

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    George Foreman split up with one of his wives and she took 2 of their kids with her to St. Lucia. He went to St. Lucia to basically steal his kids back with him and come back to the US. They hid from armed guards and snuck back on a boat with drug smuggling Rastafarians.

    Rocky Marciano used to walk around with a suitcase full of vibrators. He was nicknamed “The Vibrator King”
     
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