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Looking up Bill Cobbs I landed on this Randall Tex Cobb interview. Ali might have been the most charismatic, but Cobb might be the funniest boxer

"When did you realize you were in trouble in the fight? You knew you were losing the fight, didn't you?"
"Well, I knew that possibly what I was doing wasn't having the effect that initially I thought it might."

"He seems to have a much longer reach than you do."
"Looked like that to you too?
... Larry figured, most of what we'll do is we'll just play a very very advanced game of tag. And I'll tell you, for 45 minutes, I was It. ... I felt like if we'd had a bit more time, another fifteen or twenty rounds..."

"Did you feel embarrassed for losing to him?"
"I didn't lose the fight, Johnny, I just lost the first 15 rounds."

"You have a lot of expenses as a fighter?"
"One of the most expensive you can do is know Don King."

"Didn't you have an acting career at one time going?"
"I don't believe what I did was considered a career."


I'd enjoy seeing a biopic about him.



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