Weirdest Things Ever Said During A Fight By Commentators.....

Don't know who said it, but in the Hagler vs Mugabi fight some guy said

"Look at the steam coming off Marvins head"



"I think his conditioning has indicated that he is capable of going the distance......if it goes that far"



Of course we know the Foremanisms........"He broke his leg", came in the ring "Dry", Oscar is a "very brave boy", "These guys are like Light Heavyweights with their big hips" etc

Some of the Irish stuff from the Bernard Dunne fights is hilarious. One old boy called Jimmy Magee started talking about Rudyard Kiplings poem "Gunga Din" when Bernard was being battered about the ring.

Dave McCaulay used to swear that he "Didn't see a punch" everytime Bernard would get knocked over. He;d be like "I didn't see a punch, I didn't see a punch"

Yeah I don't think Bernard saw it either.

 

He broke his legs is my go to response. I'm pissed off you took it, you gunge hunker.

 

Watch more fights.

I am pretty sure I heard Don Dunphy once say "Buy Pabst Blue Ribbon, good hook by Robinson" or something like that.

I know Roy and Lampley once basically stopped watching a Mickey Ward fight to have a conversation about something totally different

 

Foreman : seems like the referee is going to be the most important man in the ring besides the fighters.

One of my favorite quote ever

 

They never should have fired him.

Chizz, Pacheco and Foreman should have had their own show doing fights, with Lederman doing the scorecards.

You'd have seen and heard some shit that night.

 

"Left hooks, overhand rights, combinations, Gatti looking like Ray Leonard." - Foreman.

 

I remember when Frazier fought Roy Jones and Lampley was just desperate to do the whole "DOWN GOES FRAZIER" thing but he could see what a total farce the fight was that he instead delivered it in the most dead pan sarcastic fashion. Like "I said it, but...it's not the same, this is shit, fuck my life"

The whole commentary is brilliant. It opens with Clancy and Merchant banging on about ring sizes and the WBC "making up the rules as they go along" which has to be the only time I can recall a pro title fight of that magnitude opening with a discussion of the sanctioning bodies and ring sizes and holiday training regimes

Probably one of the gratest modern farces of are times

5:55

 

There's a big difference between George and those other two clowns...you actually WANTED to watch a telecast with Foreman on it. Cause you knew you would hear some weird shit that would make you laugh.

Pacheco and Czyz were insufferable, pompous motherfuckers that just made you wanna watch Showtime on mute. Not interesting or charismatic like George... just two pricks who in their own minds have cured cancer twice over.

 

Yeah, this Ray Leonard

 

Pacheco had that Norman Mailer thing going on, he'd been around fighters, taken their blood pressure, who are you?

Chezz .........I just think that guy was a simpleton for hire.

He was brought in to act as a witness at Mike Tysons licence application post-bite.

He was supposed to create this atmosphere of a prize ring being a place where literally anything could happen.

I think he said something like "If an opponents eye fell out I would pick up and eat it".

The idea being that Mikes bite would look like nothing really too bad once people knew what REALLY goes on in there.

They had Wepner in there helping him to create this atmosphere. Yes, that Wepner.


Maybe they should have hired McNeely too. You know, really impress people.

 

Part of me does feel for Czyz - I mean, his old man committed suicide with Czyz in the house. I'm sure that forever fucked his brain in many ways, and might be part of the reason why he's currently a down and out drunk.

 

What's that got to do with not knowing a left hook from a right hand, or who threw it?

 

Apparently Czyz is a member of Mensa. Do they hand out interim intercontinental silver membership versions or something?

 

Too many Foremanisms to list. That fight where he kept creaming over how Oscar's intimidating shoulders were winning him the fight

 

"Shoulders and backs like light heavyweights".

BIG HIPS!!!

 

He's a member of Demensa.

 

I think that was Tim Ryan - he also described Hagler's head as "the dome."

 

Hagler looked like a weapon in boxing shorts

 

Wasn't a very big man by all accounts. About 5'9 and a half.

 

i met hagler at the wBC convention in las vegas many years ago. rest assured, he was tall for his height

my pick is

 

Indeed. Foreman slapped him down for it and most of the online versions soon featured a different commentary.

An early warning of what was to come.

Foreman had of course no business saying that. Hamed had dialled it up nastily because he was a SCURRED bitch that knew he hadn't put the training in.

So he got Religulous and threatening.

On this occasion, Lampley was right, Foreman was wrong.

 

He had freakishly long arms for a middleweight, people often forget that.

That's what got Hearns knocked out. He thought he was safe from distance, but Marv still nailed him with those long ass arms.

 

Harry Carpenter immediately declaring Frank Bruno's career is over after blowing a 9-0 lead to Bonecrusher Smith in the final round

 

Back then you see commentators were far more realistic and didn't follow some Studio Script.

Today, if Bruno went 9-0 and then got stopped in the 10th, the dynamic would be.........."And Frank Bruno can feel very hard done by here tonight. The surreptitious insertion of a 10th round between the 9th and 11th has completely thrown him off his game"

 

What about his hips and shoulders and back? Did he have them like a Light-Heavyweight? Was he strang in the forearms like bear?

 

"It's the night of the left jab now"- Foreman during ODLH vs Vargas, round 8, like it was some sort of horror flick.

Between rounds 7-8

"Gimme......2 good combinations. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPP!"- Floyd Sr.

 

Nah, Lederman was a joke playing a character. You listen to him in his early television days (when he sounded normal and wasn't making an ass out of himself) and you wouldn't believe he's the same guy. Quite glad I don't have to listen to him anymore.

 

Howard Cosell in the Benuvatti Monzon (1st?) fight. Basically yelling bloody murder that the fight was stopped even though ''no punches had landed''

 

You would have thought that Monzon beat up Cosell's boyfriend the way he hated on him.

 

It was the second, but you are correct. He missed every freaking punch. Even though Benevenuti's corner was indeed quick to stop it, Cosell had no clue of what was going on