Frases de Joe Walcott

Joe Walcott foi um notório pugilista nascido na Guiana Britânica, que se tornou campeão mundial dos meios-médios entre 1901 e 1906. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Março 1873 – 1. Outubro 1935
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Joe Walcott: Frases em inglês

“Since no welterweight or middleweight will fight me I am compelled to go to the next class. Will any heavyweights fight me?”

Police Gazette Oct 13, 1900. Walcott issued challenges to Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin and even champion Jim Jeffies, though they all declined.

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

Some sources claim it was said first by Walcott http://coxscorner.tripod.com/walcott.html, but the English version of this ancient proverb is generally attributed to Bob Fitzsimmons, as documented in the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs ( 6th edition, 2015, p. 26 https://books.google.com/books?id=LMGPCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26).
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