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On this day in 1922, the defensive wizard and pound-for-pound boxing royalty, Willie 'The Will O' The Wisp' Pep was born...
19/09/2026

On this day in 1922, the defensive wizard and pound-for-pound boxing royalty, Willie 'The Will O' The Wisp' Pep was born.

Happy heavenly birthday, Champ. Rest in peace.

Happy birthday to the former undisputed light-welterweight world champion, Kostya 'The Thunder From Down Under' Tszyu, w...
19/09/2026

Happy birthday to the former undisputed light-welterweight world champion, Kostya 'The Thunder From Down Under' Tszyu, who turns 57 today.

Happy birthday, Champ. Many happy returns.

'The smallest doubt becomes a big one under pressure. You can't lie to yourself. Not really. You can pretend, which is n...
18/09/2026

'The smallest doubt becomes a big one under pressure. You can't lie to yourself. Not really. You can pretend, which is not quite the same thing. You know the truth.'

- Frank Bruno

'I can understand the reason for my failings. When I was a kid I had nothing but a lot of brothers and sisters, a helple...
18/09/2026

'I can understand the reason for my failings. When I was a kid I had nothing but a lot of brothers and sisters, a helpless mother and a father who didn't care about a single one of us. We grew up like heathens. We hardly had enough food to keep from starving, no shoes, only a few clothes and nobody to help us escape from the horrible life we lived.'

- Sonny Liston

'When I was growing up in Louisville, I used to daydream all the time about being successful in boxing and being famous....
18/09/2026

'When I was growing up in Louisville, I used to daydream all the time about being successful in boxing and being famous. But one time I remember in particular. Floyd Patterson was heavyweight champion of the world. I was at the Olympics in Rome. And I went to sleep in my room, pretending I was heavyweight champion. This was even before I won the gold medal. But I lay in bed, pretending I was famous, pretending everyone liked me and looked up to me the way I looked up to Floyd Patterson. And God blessed me. My dream came true. But I got different dreams now. Now I dream about doing something to stop all the hating in the world. I dream about feeding people who are hungry. I dream about children learning how to read and write. And sometimes, when I'm really dreaming, I dream about being a rock star like Elvis or Little Richard.'

- Muhammad Ali

'I used to listen to everybody. They used to come to me and say, 'this is the way you should do this or that' and I used...
18/09/2026

'I used to listen to everybody. They used to come to me and say, 'this is the way you should do this or that' and I used to try to do it. I tightened up. I wasn't using my natural style. I used to wait for a one punch kiII - and I could do it with one punch. I changed all that starting with the Buster Mathis fight.

People who go to fights in California are used to watching Mexicans. They like to see bantamweights and featherweights. They like wild swingers. That's what they wanted me to be. No dice for Jerry Quarry.

I remember one fight where they screamed themselves right out of their heads. Roberto Alvarez and another wild swinging bantamweight fought one of the worst fights I ever saw. But there were 12 knockdowns in the fight so everyone was happy.

Actually there were only 11 knockdowns, but Harry Kabakoff (Alvarez's manager) knocked his own fighter down and they called it a knockdown. Alvarez had been knocked down and was just about to get to his feet when the bell rang. The manager rang at him and when he touched him, he fell down again. That was the 12th knockdown.'

- Jerry Quarry

'It may look easy from the outside. But only I, my family, and my team truly know how much effort it takes to achieve th...
18/09/2026

'It may look easy from the outside. But only I, my family, and my team truly know how much effort it takes to achieve these results. Not everything works out right away. And if it doesn’t, you keep trying. God gave me this path, and I follow it, no matter how hard it gets. Obstacles and challenges are also part of this journey, part of His plan. He gives them to make me stronger.'

- Oleksandr Usyk

'This fighting business is like every other kind of business. You've got to keep on studying and learning all the time, ...
18/09/2026

'This fighting business is like every other kind of business. You've got to keep on studying and learning all the time, and if you don't why, the folks that do will just pass you right by on the way to the top. A lot of people always wondered how it was that I kept bouncing around in those rings for so long and could keep right on whipping boys even after I got those there crows feet under my eyes and a lot of fat around my stomach and alI that. Well, it was because I was always studying fighting and learning new tricks and after I lost my shape and my speed and my eyesight, I was fighting with my head. When I started fighting, I said to myself, Little Thammy, you're a pretty bum fighter, and you ain't going to last long unless you do lots of learning. The fight business was one I liked better than all the rest, and I could make more money at it, and so I decided to stick right with it. And all the while I never stopped saying to myself that I was a pretty bum sort of fighter and I'd better do a lot of learning or I'd get licked right out of the business.

So, when I wasn't fighting I was going to fight shows and watching all the fighters to see what the best thing they had. When I'd see someone doing something new or using a punch better than I used it, I'd go to a gymnasium the next day and practice and practice and then go right on practicing until I learned the trick. When the moving pictures came and they showed pictures of fights where champions strutted their stuff, I'd almost go broke going to see those pictures. I'd keep right on going until I had got in my mind all the best tricks those boys did. The next day I'd go to the gym and grab me a few sparring partners and I'd tell him what tricks I learned and then we'd practice them until we learned it or he got dizzy. And if he got dizzy and didn't want to practice on it any longer. I'd get some other boy to work with me.'

- Sam Langford

'This will be a great grand world when it is bone dry. No man who has put alcohol in his stomach is good in an emergency...
17/09/2026

'This will be a great grand world when it is bone dry. No man who has put alcohol in his stomach is good in an emergency because his brains ain't working right. A man must be crazy to put stuff in his stomach to make him crazy in the head.'

- Battling Nelson

'An over-trained athlete is as sorry an object as an under-trained contestant, because he does not understand his own co...
17/09/2026

'An over-trained athlete is as sorry an object as an under-trained contestant, because he does not understand his own condition. He feels fresh and vigorous, but therein, he is tragically fooled because he lacks the co-ordination of nerve and muscle and brain, and unfortunately never realizes that something is wrong with him until he tries to achieve that which he most desires. I speak from experience.'

- Jack Johnson

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