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Nah, I’m just a prizefighter.

(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion
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Pedroza – the crown on his head hanging by a thread.

British sports commentator
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The question looming over Magri, is not will he keep the title, but can he?

British sports commentator
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The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

The champion, Jess Willard, had about as much chance in this fight as a dish-faced chimpanzee in a beauty contest.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Boxing Sports

I've made the national anthem a six-point underdog.

American sports commentator & oddsmaker
Boxing Sports

The current version of Buster Mathis [Jr.] boasts not just a Michelin man waist but an embonpoint thai would give him a better shot at starring in the next Wonderbra poster than winning a boxing title.

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Howard Cosell would rather shave a wild lion with a dull razor than fight me. 

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

I’m going down so often these days you’d think I was making a blue movie.

English boxer
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Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

English boxing champion
Boxing Sports

I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia.

American professional boxer
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Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Floyd Patterson is everything a world heavyweight champion should be… except busy.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

I miss the things like the camaraderie in the gym; I don’t miss being smacked in the mouth every day.

Irish professional boxer
Boxing Sports

Mike Tyson dropped me and when I looked up, the count was on five. I said to myself, ‘Damn, whatever happened to one to four.’

American boxer
Boxing Sports

They said it would last two rounds; they were half right, it lasted four.

British sports commentator
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Since then we've changed the locks.

Mayor of Scranton PA
Boxing Sports

In pro boxing, let's face it, the name of the game is how much you make – not how many honors won. Billy Walker was the most successful flop in history.

English boxing journalist & commentator
Boxing Sports

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

American boxing champion
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Can I bite him?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports