Larry Merchant Quotes
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I haven't seen Johnson enough in the past to know, but he's a guy who's fought all these years, 16 years, finally gets a title, he's fighting for his biggest payday, he's still fighting back in occasional flurries, just as Jimmy Garcia did when he fought Gabe Ruelas. So he was still fighting back, Every time he went back to the corner he seemed to be going slower and slower. In fact I did mention after the eighth, ninth round that he sorta wobbled onto his stool. So the signs were there and it's in the hands of the referee.
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Vitali Klitschko doesn't get enough credit for how intelligent he fights, because he knows when to throw at the target and when to throw through the target.
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If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass
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No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.
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Neither guy wanted to yield. It was the third fight of their trilogy, and it was that important.
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The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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He's so good, you wonder what's wrong with him.
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To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.
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Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?
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It was the third fight. They had both been beaten. If the fight was as significant as it may seem in hindsight, it wouldn't have been held in Manila. It would have been the Thrilla in Chicago.
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Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.
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Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.
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Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.
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There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.
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Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
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Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.
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This fight figures to be crunk
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Frazier was never the same after his first fight with Ali. He fought the best fight of his career in that fight.
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He had long ago established he wasn't just another pretty face, but it was a reminder of what was going on inside his body while he was entertaining us.
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I think it all depends on how good this fight is. I don't know how to rank it. If this turns out to be a dramatic fight and Roy wins, people will look back at all three (in a fond way). But he has to win in a theatrical way. That would make it a great trilogy, maybe.
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I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.
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Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter
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The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.