Larry Merchant
Larry Merchant
Larry Merchantis an American former sportswriter, a longtime commentator for HBO Sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts, and is considered "the greatest television boxing analyst of all time" by ESPN Boxing analyst Dan Rafael...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 February 1931
CountryUnited States of America
boxing six-packs may
Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.
thinking boxing able
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.
glasses boxing insult
To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.
boxing
Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.
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If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass
fall punishment boxing
Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?
thinking boxing body
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.
both fight held seem third
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.
came great ray robinson younger
Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.
best career fight fought frazier
Frazier was never the same after his first fight with Ali. He fought the best fight of his career in that fight.
brought careers effort fighting generally given landed punches time
Only fighting each other could have brought that much effort out, at a time in their careers when fighters, given all the punches that had landed on them, generally don't want to go that far,
fight guy neither third
Neither guy wanted to yield. It was the third fight of their trilogy, and it was that important.
afterwards ali effort hardly remembers stool
Everyone remembers Ali afterwards could hardly get off his stool because of the effort he gave,
depends dramatic fight fond good great people rank roy theatrical three turns win
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.