Memorable boxers' quotes about being KO'd

"What a fluke that was", said the Manchester Mauler!

 

classic

 

"Soon as it landed, the lights went out…"

Joe Walcott on his knockout lost to Rocky MArciano.

 

I zigged when I should have Zagged

 

Braddock after louis clean cocked him, 'I couldnt have got up even if they offered me a million dollars'.

Hatton, 'i stumbled'. Explaining the 'check' hook of money may.

Lloyd honeyghan, 'the bell went ding and i went dong'. (after destroying gene hatcher in 40 seconds.)

I hit him and his legs turned to spaghetti and i was all over him like the sauce'.
-vinny p-

Lloyd honeyghan after destroying johnny bumphus in two rounds. 'i dont get paid for overtime,i dont take no prisoners'.

'I answered the door to see people collecting for barnados kids,i said here wait there,ive got two kids i can give you.'
-L.honeyghan.- (i know its not related to the thread but i couldnt resist.)

 

I believe it was Eddie Simms who fought Joe Louis in the thirties who, after getting tagged by Joe, turned to the ref and said something like..."hey Billy, lets go take a walk on the roof!" The ref stopped the fight immediately.

Tho not a KO quote I loved Willie Pastrano's line early in his career; after getting decked for the second time in an early round he wobbled to his feet and the ref yelled..."do you know where you are?"
Willie: "Hell yes I know where I am; I'm in the middle of Madison Square Garden gettin' the **** kicked out of me!"

 

Great thread.

How about Max Baer after the Louis fight (reference: Joe Louis: For All Time, 1982): "He hit me and it looked like whole Harlem (sic) was standing in front of me. This little ray of sunshine couldn't get through all those clouds: too many dark ones." Baer then congratulated Louis on his win and wished him luck and happiness on his marriage. Later Baer remarked: "Fear is looking acreoss the ring at Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early."

 

I remember an early Tyson Opponent being asked what punch hit him the hardest, his reply was .. "The one with the baseball bat !"

 

I remember being at coconut creek Florida with Friday Ahunanya , just after he knocked out Thomas Williams with a single punch.. The opponent was just starting to come around in the other dressing room .. His trainer said Top Cat.. you should move your head more.. Thomas Williams looked back in disbeleif and said slowly " Perhaps i would if the ****ing african wasn't putting his fist through it" We laughed like hell..

 

Gene Fullmer to his cornermen; after suffering the perfect knockout to Ray Robinson...

"****ing hell he is fit, he is even getting excited between rounds!"

 

That was some left hook by Frazier.

 

Another quote from Braddock on the ko loss to Louis,"he not only knocked me out ,he dressed me up for it". Tami Mauriello after being kod byLouis and momentarily staggering him before the stoppage,|"I had him but I got too goddamn careless".Louis after being kod by Marciano in his final fight,"Ive knocked out lots of guys". Holmes after being stopped by Tyson, " sooner or later ,as we all go along we get beat,it was my turn tonight ,someday it will be Mikes turn". Jack Johnson after Willard stopped him,he beat me square ,I have no kick coming". Jimmy Ellis telling reporters after Frazier stopped him in their first fight," I was only down once" Angleo Dundee his cornerman ,who stopped the fight,after the second knockdown ,"thats why I stopped the fight". Ali whispering to Angelo Dundee,after Dundee stopped the debacle aginst Holmes,"thank you". Jeffries after being kod by Johnson ,"no I couldnt have beaten him in a thousand years", some time later,"I was drugged ".

 

:huh Larry's one of the most honest guys you'll ever meet. Sure he came up with some excuses, but he can back some up with video proof (his uppercut getting caught in the ropes against Tyson).

 

"I don't know what hit me. I heard 6...I guess."
- Ezzard Charles just after being ko'd by Walcott

 

Jowcol, I hate to correct you, but that second quote was not by Willie Pastrano. Willie only visited the canvas once in his career, and that was in his last fight, from Jose Torres' left hook to the liver in the sixth round. That punch nearly finished Pastrano, but he hung in there 'til the 9th round.