Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Harold Lederman

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Harold Lederman

Harold Lederman was an American boxing judge and analyst. He began his career as a boxing judge in 1967 and joined the cast of HBO World Championship Boxing in 1986, and was there until HBO dropped boxing in 2018. Lederman was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the class of 2016. Lederman died on May 11, 2019 at 79 years of age, from cancer.

Born: January 26, 1940
If you're working a fight with let's say John Ruiz and...anyone and Ruiz goes jab, jab and grab, you better see whose landing the punches before it becomes a wrestling match.
I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate. — © Harold Lederman
I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate.
There's no question you get caught up in the drama but I always concentrate on whose winning and whose losing that's for sure. That's one thing you can't do in boxing is lose your concentration, watch your mind wander.
If the referee happens to be in the way you just yell, 'move or I'll break your ankles!' which I used to do with referees. Some refs will stop and watch the fight it drives you crazy.
Any of the great fights you've ever seen, Gomez and Pintor was just better.
I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!'
The best fight I ever saw without question, I was very fortunate to be a judge in the fight, between the then current WBC 122 pound champion Wilfredo Gomez, and the reigning WBC 118 pound champion Lupe Pintor. It was absolutely beyond belief.
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