Boxing Scandal Quotes

There's a lot of politics in boxing and it's destroying the game.

I always said the 155-pound belt's been in so many grubby hands, man.

In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes it's fake.

Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.

I might be the first fighter who has ever been suspended after retirement.

Whether boxing is fixable or not remains to be seen. I'm going to give it a shot.

Canelo, he is not a champion. He is a liar who has no respect for the sport of boxing or its fans.

Boxing is systemically corrupt.

When I fought Joseph Parker it was for the WBO world title and they robbed my fight.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

They put everything that's wrong with boxing in one room, did everything that's wrong with boxing in that room, and gave birth to Adrien Broner.

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.