http://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-night-tex-cobb-saved-my-life-478472363
Some of you old timers may get a laugh at this story it's from a friend of Randall "Tex" Cobb former heavyweight boxer (lost to Larry Holmes for the title) and character actor (raising Arizona, Uncommon Valour etc) a journalist called Pete Dexter.
I particularly like what " Tex" said when he saw the guys approaching them with baseball bats and bad intentions "I hope that's the softball team"
Badass!
Just read part 1.
Great read, great insight...thanks for the link and you get my mudvote of the day.
“It’s one thing to call me white and slow. But to call me a fat, cowardly, cocaine-snorting, fight fixing cheat? Who are they calling fat?”...
“If you screw up in tennis, it’s 15-love. If you screw up in boxing,” said Cobb several years ago, “it’s your ass, darlin’.”
“All I want to do is hit somebody in the mouth,” Cobb confessed. “It’s a whole lot easier than working for a living.”
On Nov. 7, 1980, Tex punched his way into the heavyweight rankings with an eighth round TKO over Earnie Shavers at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Breaking Shavers' jaw in the process.
Three months later Tex dropped a controversial split decision to ex-champion Ken Norton, but Cobb was in the mix: “If I were any more serious, they’d make me a national disease.”
Before his fight with Larry Holmes When asked if he was afraid of Larry, Tex replied, “What the hell is this guy going to do to me? Hit me? You think I got all this scar tissue running into parked cars?”
The two men met on Nov. 26, 1982 in Houston, Texas. For fifteen lopsided rounds, the champ pounded the challenger. Holmes didn’t drop his opponent—Tex was too damn stubborn for that—but at one point Cobb turned to the ref and said, “You’re white. Help me.” The ref may have been white, but he refused to help, so Tex stood there and ate leather.
Ringside announcer Howard Cosell was calling the fight. He said during the broadcast of Holmes vs. Cobb: “This is brutalization.”
Tex explained away the loss, but took pride in the fact that he was the man who drove Cosell from the game. Cobb said it was “My gift to boxing.”
I've read this piece a number of times over the years and never get tired of it. Thanks for sharing.
staygreenponyboy - I've read this piece a number of times over the years and never get tired of it. Thanks for sharing.No worries. Figured a few people around here would be into it.
Kerouac - Just read part 1.Pleasure. Enjoyed reading it and the related articles then watched a couple of his fights again on YouTube. Guy may not have been the most skilled but he is a legitimate badass and funny too.
Great read, great insight...thanks for the link and you get my mudvote of the day.
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ShamusO'nyou - tttThanks
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=AA1XD9Sz6y0
Tex Cobb V Larry Holmes WBC heavyweight title 1982.
Worth a watch for Howard Cosell losing the will to live as it goes on!
notsobigmike - Price. A fair price. That's not what you say it is, and it's not what I say it is... It's what the market will bear. Now there's people - and I know 'em - who'll pay a lot more than $25,000 for a healthy baby. Why, I myself fetched $30,000 on the black market. And that was in 1954 dollars.
Awesome movie!
Tex is unreal. Don Frye must have pictures of this guy up on his wall.
WoodenPupa - Tex is unreal. Don Frye must have pictures of this guy up on his wall.
Haha! Yeah two bad asses right there!
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Talk about great one-lines... wow
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