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• Boxing Quotes Of The Week Lou DiBella |
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• Boxing Quote of the Day Sept 24rd 2006 |
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• Boxing Quote Of The Day - Sept 18th 2006 |
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Boxing Quote Of The
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Boxing Classic Quotes |
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Boxing Quote Of The Week
August 29th |
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Boxing Classic Quote |
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• Boxing Quote of the Week |
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Boxing Scribe Begs
For Excitement: Put
Bomber Briggs In
With Klitschko! |
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• Boxing Quote of the
Day August 9th
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• Boxing Quotes Of The
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August 8th |
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• Boxing
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August 7th |
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• Boxing
Quotes of the Week July 27th |
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• Boxing
Quotes of the Week July 20th |
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Boxing Quotes Of The Week Lou DiBella |
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"The biggest names in the sport today (ODLH, Mosley, Hopkins) are all one fight away from retirement. Heck, Evander Holyfield is fighting on Pay-Per-View in November and he's 44." --
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"The current system is designed for abuse,. It is set up to keep the fighter in the dark. No one is looking out for the fighter's economic interest. Respectable society doesn't really care. They say it's just boxing, and boxing has always been dirty. Respectable society doesn't care because almost all the fighters are black or Latino. Boxing is the sport of the underclass. Even the Russians are poor. If a golfer or baseball player were getting cheated and injured like this, there would be televised Congressional hearings."
"The law sets up an employer-employee relationship between the promoter and the fighter," DiBella added. "Most boxers enter into legal contracts without any legal representation. The promoters are so powerful they are making the function of the manager obsolete."
THE NATION magazine, 2001.
"The current system is designed for abuse,. It is set up to keep the fighter in the dark. No one is looking out for the fighter's economic interest. Respectable society doesn't really care. They say it's just boxing, and boxing has always been dirty.
Respectable society doesn't care because almost all the fighters are black or Latino. Boxing is the sport of the underclass. Even the Russians are poor. If a golfer or baseball player were getting cheated and injured like this, there would be televised Congressional hearings."
"The law sets up an employer-employee relationship between the promoter and the fighter," DiBella added. "Most boxers enter into legal contracts without any legal representation. The promoters are so powerful they are making the function of the manager obsolete."
Super Joe
Still Punching Jeff But Never Mentions
Kid Kessler
"I can give Lacy 1006 good reasons why
he should not get a rematch against me
because that's the number of times I
landed with punches on the night and I
can count the number of times he caught
me on one hand - four."--Joe Calzaghe, |
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Boxing Quote of the Day Sept 24rd 2006 |
"Evander is like Pan Am, he makes the going great. Evander is like Delta, he is ready when you are. And Evander is like Coca-Cola, he is the real
thing."
Co-promoter MURAD MUHAMMAD at San Antonio press conference hyping Holyfield's second comeback bout, November 10 on PPV TV. The opponent is fast Fres Oquendo and the site is the Alamodome. |
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Boxing Quote Of The Day - Sept 18th 2006 |
Moretti Wisecracks: Rocky Did Homework But Not Roadwork For MAB Rematch
"We did our homework on Marco Antonio Barrera. Unfortunately, we did not do our roadwork. -- Main Events downcast VP Carl Moretti in the wake of Rocky Juarez's lousy performance in the rematch with MAB Saturday night in Las Vegas. |
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Boxing Quote Of The Week |
'DiBella:
Winky Wright Did Not Want Rematch Like
Jermain Taylor Did'
Clearly, my fighter wanted this fight
more than Winky did. We couldn't wait.
It wasn't fair to the facility in Little
Rock, HBO, or the other places we were
looking at. Enough is enough. We're not
chasing Winky for the fight. I did what
my fighter asked me to do, which was try
to get a fight against Winky Wright."
TAYLOR PROMOTER LOU DIBELLA, IN THE
TAMPA TRIBUNE. DIBELLA CONFIRMED THE
MARLEY/FNN EXCLUSIVE, FIRST REPORTED BY
OUR NAT GOTTLIEB, THAT TAYLOR HAD
DIRECTED HIM TO MAKE A REMATCH WITH
WRIGHT. |
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Boxing Classic Quotes |
Two Worlds Collide: When Ted Koppel Met
Atomic Bull Oliver McCall
Koppel: "Congratulations to you, champ.
That was quite a knockout you had over
Lennox Lewis in England."
McCall: "Thanks, man. Hey, you is a
short little motherfucker. You look a
lot bigger on that TV screen."
Source: Embarrassed Michael Marley
who introduced the two at a Super Bowl
party.
(SEE MARLEY COLUMN, SLICE OF INSANITY,
WORLD TRAVELS WITH THE ATOMIC BULL) |
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Boxing Quote Of The Week |
Brock's M.O. Simple: Avoid Danger,
Pad Record, Fight Champ
From sports columnist Tom Sorenson,
Charlotte.com
"Brock is 29-0 with 22 knockouts. He has
told me several times he is the best
heavyweight in the world, but there is
no way to know, because in his six-year
pro career, he has yet to fight anybody.
I know this is the point in the story in
which the local writer is supposed to
back the local fighter, so I'll try.
Brock's strategy -- avoid danger, pad
record, fight champ -- has been
effective."
Classic Boxing Quotes
Coach John Johnson Predicts Buster
Will Be Judged The Greatest Ever
"James Douglas is going to beat Evander
Holyfield and then he's going to some
other people and, before it's over,
you're going to say he's the best ever."
BUSTER DOUGLAS' MANAGER COACH JOHN
JOHNSON, 1990, before Holyfield trampled
Douglas.
"On
November 18, Manny Pacquiao will have
Erik Morales eating his heart out. And
by the looks of Erik at the recent press
conference, that seems to be the ONLY
thing Erik HASN'T eaten!"
Freddie Roach, Trainer for Manny
Pacquiao |
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