Unless otherwise listed, these are all quotes taken from Teddy acting as expert commentator for ESPN's Friday Night Fights and will be updated as new quotes are chosen and arranged in chronological order:
2015:
May:
Teddy was asked by Todd Grisham to predict Gennady Golovkin VS FNF tournament winner Willie Monroe Junior on Friday Night Fights, the fifteenth of May.
Todd asks Teddy about Monroe's chances. Teddy says:
"I don't wanna be sounding like I'm in any way not respecting the fighters that I respect in that ring. But the answer probably is slim or none."
Teddy says, that Monroe is a gentleman and he likes him. He says Monroe is accurate and a good boxer, but not a puncher and he needs another dimension to hold Golovkin off.
2014:
December:
11th:
On Antonio Tarver:
"Tarver was one of the great amateur fighters in U. S. history."
(quoted in the post-fight coverage of Tarver's match with Johnathon Banks)
August:
15th:
On Al Haymon:
". . . Al Haymon, who's a tremendous manager/advisor, you know, whatever you want to call him, he's got those fighters, those three fighters that fought last week, Garcia, Peterson and Jacobs, and he did his job. He got 'em the most money for the least amount of risk."
Predicting Kell Brook VS Shawn Porter:
"I'm picking Porter in that fight, but, again, a fight that I'm looking forward to."
On Referee Jack Reiss, before the officiating of Rustam Nugaev VS Denis Shafikov:
"You've got the right-one of the right referees in there, Jack Reiss, who does a great job. He won't interrupt the action. He'll watch it. He'll control it, but he won't mess it up, like some referees nowadays will."
On Rustam Nugaev:
"Nugaev happens to be one of my favourite fighters on this air, because he brings it."
On toughness and Cus D'Amato:
"I'm going to tell you what the late, great Cus D'Amato said to me, my mentor, what he said about being tough. When both guys are tough, the guy who's smarter, he's tougher."
July:
25th:
During the ESPN2 broadcast of Roberto Garcia VS Breidis Prescott, round eight:
Teddy: "Trainers are liars. They lie to you and I'm not knocking 'em. It's a good way. . . to try to keep his confidence up.
Todd Grisham "So, you lied as a trainer, back in the day?"
Teddy: "I fibbed."
January:
31st:
On Gennady Golovkin, shortly before Golovkin's match with Osumanu Adama:
"I see what I always see, Todd, with Mikey Garcia. That he's a master. A master at controlling range, controlling distance. He knows exactly where he's got to be, to be out of range, and exactly where he's got to go to be in range. And, how does he do it? Well, simply put, it's all about the feet when it comes to Mike Garcia. He's got the best feet and the best judge of distance in the whole boxing world."
On Mikey Garcia, after being asked about his match with Juan Carlos Burgos:
"I see what I always see, Todd, with Mikey Garcia. That he's a master. A master at controlling range, controlling distance. He knows exactly where he's got to be, to be out of range, and exactly where he's got to go to be in range. And, how does he do it? Well, simply put, it's all about the feet when it comes to Mike Garcia. He's got the best feet and the best judge of distance in the whole boxing world."
2013:
September:
On Floyd Mayweather VS Saul "Canelo" Alvarez decision and Judge C. J. Ross, ICE SPORTS:
"And Another dubious situation and another black eye for boxing and guess what? Boxing is like the cyclops. There's no more eyes left to blacken. This is really destroying the boxing industry and it takes us away from the marvelous performance of Floyd Mayweather. Look, we're in the betting capital of the world. They put a betting line on anything. You can bet on the coin toss in the super bowl. You can bet on the under/over for how long the national anthem's going to go in the super bowl. But I can guarantee you, one line that will not be up in this town tomorrow. And that will be the line of whether or not C. J. Ross, that criminal, that-that corrupt or incompetent, whatever you want to call her, I don't know what she is, but this is the second time she's done this just- as you just finished saying. There will be no line up tomorrow whether or not she will be reprimanded by this commission, or any commission. Because she won't be. Because it doesn't happen in boxing. Boxing is unregulated. It has no national commission like the other sports and it's destroying itself."
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