what boxing slang do you longer hear shouted...

"Excellent Ring Mechanic"
Lost superlative used by old time fight scribes who knew their stuff

 

We have terminology like "check hook" today...total bull****.

 

the term "wallop" needs to make a comeback.

 

jim watt still says most these things

 

"Attaboy!" "Game boy!"

Now, all you hear, particularly at press conferences, is modern Mr. T's calling out their Apollos: "Hey, boy! Hey, boy! After I'm through with him, you're next!"

 

Yeah, Manny Steward used to use that one a lot, as did Tommy Hearns.

There is still, it seems, one in every live crowd who at some point during a fight when there is a lull in the crowd who will yell out in full voice:

"Bite his ear!!!!"

And, sadly, people will laugh.

 

That's not a plural, it's a possessive, as in the champion belonging to the world.





Sorry, I'm an English teacher. I feel the need to obsessively correct this stuff.

 

A "Piker!"

You also never hear that someone is "in the pink of condition" anymore. Fights were often called set-tos or settos.

 

It is the best of all possible worlds. Boxing has never been so good.

In the 90's I was once sprinkled by the contrail of a urine bomb flying overhead toward the ring in San Luis Potosi. Let's bring back that statement.

 

This World Championship fight is scheduled for 15 rounds.

 

Reference to the "Championship Rounds.."

The ring floor was covered in "Nobbins" of appreciation...

He (the staggered Fighter) was .".Äll At Sea.."

 

You never hear commentators say, "Now let's watch that again in the miracle of slow motion" anymore.