Love him or hate him, the Merchant man is a boxing legend. I've heard a lot of classic quotes spew from his mouth, but I think there's probably a lot more. Can people please post them if they remember them? Here's one to start things off:
On the aftermath of Lennox Lewis' rematch with Hasim Rahman: 'Emmanuel Steward testified in the contract trial that Lewis needed the rematch with Rahman immediately as Lewis is getting old. Lennox Lewis just made Steward a perjuror!'
"Of course he wants to continue!" Larry after Gatti gets KDd by Baldy the first time and the ref asks Gatti if he wants to continue... or it might have been jim lampley.
"He just drowned in Ocean's Eleven." -on Lennox being KO'd by Rahman
"And he NEVER...STOPPED...BITCHIN!" -on Byrd being KO'd by Ike
the oceans eleven one is a classic...
In regards to Jim Lampley and Emmanuel Stewart describing Erik Morales' nose in the 2nd fight with Manny.
"Well, I see it as a great hawk nose, a hawk circling, looking for prey." -Larry Merchant Hhaahahha. :D
One of my faves (I'm paraphrasing) was in the post-fight for Tyson-Douglas.
Reffering to a Japanese parable or something (the fight was in Japan, remember): "This is like the frog being fed to the snake."
Then after the fight, he said something like, "Apparently that frog was poisonous."
about andrew "six heads" lewis chin : " andrew may have six heads but he has no chins".
about michael grant's chin : " to say that grant has a glass jaw would be an insult to the glass".
about ivan calderon's punching power : " calderon could not dent a box of kleenexs".
about rafael marquez who has had several facial surgeries do to soft skin: " marquez may need some surgery on his offense".
about jermain taylor during his onesided beating against marquez: "right now it looks like a doberman vs. a collie and jermaine taylor is the doberman"Are you sure it's Jermain Taylor?
about andrew "six heads" lewis chin : " andrew may have six heads but he has no chins".
about michael grant's chin : " to say that grant has a glass jaw would be an insult to the glass".
about ivan calderon's punching power : " calderon could not dent a box of kleenexs".
about rafael marquez who has had several facial surgeries do to soft skin: " marquez may need some surgery on his offense".
about jermain taylor during his onesided beating against marquez: "right now it looks like a doberman vs. a collie and jermaine taylor is the doberman"
“He had long ago established he wasn't just another pretty face, he's actually an ugly SOB. Looks like Sasquatch and Danny Devito mated."
"That shot to the body will undoubtly turn Robinson's sphincter into a bloody diarrhea blasting canon for a week or two after this fight is over."
"Black on black violence. Feel my intense erection, Jim. Better then Viagra anyday."
"Does anyone smell wet ass? Oh, that's just the Mexicans in the ring."
“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. Then maybe Tarver can go back to selling crack. Something he's good at.”
"Despite the reality of what goes on inside the ring, the business of boxing is based on illusion. And if you want an example, I'll give you an example. The last big fight that Mike Tyson won was against Michael Spinks fifteen years ago."
good one.....
"Despite the reality of what goes on inside the ring, the business of boxing is based on illusion. And if you want an example, I'll give you an example. The last big fight that Mike Tyson won was against Michael Spinks fifteen years ago."
"You can see the colors of Ghana on Jantuah's trunks and robe. Bright, vibrant colors. You can take the boy out of the tropics, but sometimes, you can't take the tropics out of the boy"
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Larry Merchant on the over-officious nature of Vic Drakulich (he asks the fighters to calm down) during Mayweather Jr./Castillo I: 'What do you mean calm down? It's a fight!'