Larry Merchant Boxing Quotations

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.

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass

Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.

To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

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.

Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.