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"Any time we talking boxers, East Coast Elites gotta bring up Dicky Eklund. Dicky Eklund, Dicky Eklund, Dicky Eklund, that's all you hear. Stop with your Dicky
by a4isms 4y ago
"Any time we talking boxers, East Coast Elites gotta bring up Dicky Eklund. Dicky Eklund, Dicky Eklund, Dicky Eklund, that's all you hear. Stop with your Dicky Eklund, everybody know it be George Chuvalo!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Chuvalo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Chuvalo
- jrumbut 4y agoWhere is the quote from? Sounds familiar.
- genghisjahn 4y agohttps://youtu.be/gv7mO41bbPg?t=74 https://youtu.be/gv7mO41bbPg?t=74
- a4isms 4y agoGood call-out! That was the scene I had in mind when I mentioned sitting in a barbershop arguing about the greatest boxer who ever lived, and while I didn't want to repeat that speech word-for-word, I was most definitely thinking of the Joe Frazier Rocky Marciano line you picked out. Finally, for all three people in the world who care, I picked George Chuvalo as my reply specifically because he is famous for fighting Ali twice and staying on his feet both times.
- jrumbut 4y agoWow you two really understand each other! I was thinking "what movie did I miss where they discussed Dicky Eklund and George Chuvalo?" I was wondering if it was from that old Showtime documentary about Dicky's darker times.
- aliqot 4y agoIt's heart warming that people know Dicky in this context, it's tough to see him go from where he was to the person they saw during his appearance on HBO's "High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell" https://deadspin.com/the-real-dicky-eklund-in-hbos-high-on-crack-street-and-5773665 https://deadspin.com/the-real-dicky-eklund-in-hbos-high-on-c...
- jrumbut 4y agoMy memory of him is always going to be Mickey Ward's corner, I'm not old enough to remember his own career but he had some legendary moments as a second.
- chasd00 4y agodidn't Eddie Murphy play all of those roles at the same time? well i mean it was edited to look like he played them all at the same time.
- a4isms 4y agoHe played Saul, the hang-about with the Yiddish accent, and one of the two barbers. Arsenio Hall played played the other barber. Cuba Gooding Jr. played a customer. The joke Eddie tells at the end in character as Saul cracks me up to this very day. When we succeed at tricking someone into recognizing an unpleasant truth, my entire family will waggle a finger and intone “Aha!” in tribute. Example: “Hey, what colour is the rubber base of the dog dish?” “Hang on… Ewww, it’s dirty, needs to be washed.” “Aha!”