Yea! He was a fighter first and foremost. The acting gig was a side hustle.

Yes. He had a good record : 42 Wins (35 knockouts, 7 decisions), 7 Losses (1 knockout, 6 decisions), 1 Draw, 1 No Contest

Agreed.

He definitely was a badass professional real deal boxer, but he was an actor!!

​@@tommajor3832he was an actor second

Sounds like we all missed out on the Norris Cobb fight of the century! (Yes, I know, and it's a joke. Pretty sure Norris is several weight classes below Cobb and not at all the same style as Boxing, just funny because he's also a martial artist turned actor)

Is he a Hollywood actor or not?

@@bierlichen1 He was an ex-fighter that got into acting after his boxing career. Pretty simple to find out...

Cobb had an Iron Chin went the distance with Holmes and beat Ernie Shavers. So yeah he was a badass. He would've went further in Hollywood but in an interview with Letterman he explained Hollywood is hard when a person refuses to kiss ass 😁😁

Yep… And it was the Easton Assassin who stopped him… In the 10th if I remember correctly?..

David rose-Christmas waltz

He was a shit boxer

The title is written to initiate a response. This is why he is just an actor. More bait for the clicks.

😂😂😂

Another great quote from Tex Cobb was when the referee paused the fight between Cobb and Holmes because of Tex's profuse facial bleeding. The ref asked Tex "Do you know who I am?" Tex Cobb answered "Yeah. You are the other White guy in the ring".

WISE SON!!MAMA RAISED HIM RIGHT…AMEN…DR.BRYANT LANE.

​@@nadnavlis240"wtf are you talking about, Tex!? This is a hospital!"

Shit quote..only an American would think that's great FFS 😂

I just noticed John 3:16 and wanted to say that I love you brother. Look up Because our redemption draws nigh!!!

That's funny.

I guess he hit as hard as Foreman just didn’t have the technical skills of him

😂 That's a couple of good ones.

Wow that's totally amazing! What school was that Which part of America? He was indeed a great fighter as you can see to this day he is considered to be the hardest puncture that lived

Warren Reserve High School in Warren Ohio@@500res The school is no longer there because of population decline so they consolidated the two high schools into one..Mr. Shavers grew up in a small community named Braceville Ohio near Warren Ohio..Moved to Florida after boxing..He was very much respected in the community as many knew him from the school and he made everyone so proud..

He worked for many year as door security in lots of nightclubs in Liverpool for many years where he was loved and respected by all the public who met him ❤

@@alanmuldoon5587 when you say Liverpool do you mean the United Kingdom? As in where I'm from that's interesting I'm guessing in those days you could do that? Unless you mean a place in America?

​@@500res That nigga meant to say East Liverpool, Ohio

I shook hands with him in Yates Liverpool, around 20 years ago.

@@mickymodo11 totally respecting you.. Yates’ .. those were the days.

Never underestimate a guy with a Woody Woodpecker tattoo.

@@ICDUMPEPL Hoo Hoo Hoo Heh Heh Hoo Hoo Hoo Heh Heh Heeeeeeeeeeeh!!!

Yeah id avoid fighting him AT ALL COSTS. buy him 10 rounds LoL.

He was in good movies and was memorable too. Raising Arizona, Police Academy, Liar Liar, Ace Ventura, it’s like a memorable string of movies. He just happened to be a great boxer too. People can do more than one thing.

​@@ludotoyhunter8492"let go o'that baby you warthog from hell"! 😂

Did Holmes actually have fractures on his hands after the Cobb fight or is that a myth?

@@alastairatcheson1407 No no fractures just a comment probably on how many times he hit that head 😂

@@briangardiner3520 lol

Holmes beat the crap out of Cobb but credit to him for not going down. Howard Cosell got so upset that he quit covering boxing.

During the fight Tex said to the ref, "you're white, do something about this", jokingly about him getting pummelled by Holmes.

I remember his knockdown of Holmes and seeing the fans in the first few rows all mouthing "oh my god". I immediately thought Holmes was killed on the spot. Somehow he got right up

@@timburr4453 yeah any normal human would get killed by his punch

Shavers was old here fyi. Had he fought a Shavers 5-7 years prior... his face would have been spaghetti by round 3

​@@WhiskeyToroShavers lost even in his prime because he had no gas tank, it was no different here. The golden era rose tinted glasses are really a boomer commodity you can get rid of today

Agree. Ernie was still an incredibly hard puncher in 1980 and he hit Tex with absolute bombs, dozens of times. Ernie didn't lose here because of age. Ernie won most of the completed rounds of the fight. If Ernie was younger he may have lasted a round or two more. Anyone who saw Holmes blast Tex for 15 rds. knows. Tex took even more punishment against Holmes.

😂

After Larry Holmes pounded on Cobb for a whole fight, someone asked Cobb if the punches from Holmes hurt, and Cobb said "Well, he got my attention."

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😂😂😂😂

​@@jahhah6719zz😊

Also a kickboxer and black belt karate quite an athlete. also and impressive record .

​@@marcusfranconium3392You aren't a karate. If you want a title to call a karate practitioner, say "karate ka" or "karate gakusei".

@@bigguy7353 Most people with any sense that calling him "karate" and had left out the word "in", as in "black belt in karate". How you can't see that is baffling.

Tex surprised me with solid head movement, never watched him box before.

@@bigguy7353 Nobody cares what you think.

He was a boxer long before a so called actor

His fight record is pretty impressive.

Was he Jake and Logan Paul before they were a thing

@@graciegjj Calling him a Paul is like saying Royce Gracie was Josh Koscheck

@@ymatktpk11 😮

So much so, Howard Cosell quit announcing boxing matches after Cobb took a fifteen-round absolute drubbing at the gloves of Larry Holmes, never going down. Not once. It was a long lesson in brutality Cosell couldn’t get over. (I’m sure you know this because you knew of Cobb’s legendary chin. I’m just sharing for the readers. Peace, brother.)

@@PlaceStillMatters for sure man not only did he have a chin he had heart like no other a real warrior.

​@@PlaceStillMatters7:34

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

​@@PlaceStillMatters Cobb stated on the Johnny Carson show "I didn't lose the fight. I just ran out of rounds"

He was a pro boxer himself

I did too.

Everyone did. Hope he’s still getting royalties.

That's the best reply he could'a said!

They don't make fighters like that anymore friend

@@johnreidy2804 I AGREE! I WATCH THE UFC NOW AS BOXING IS DEAD!

​@@claudedalton8970Ridiculous comment. Over the weekend we just had two of the best fighters in the world fight for the undisputed welterweight title and we witnessed a true masterclass performance from Terence Crawford. We have Tyson Fury, and undefeated heavyweight champion. We have deontay Wilder arguably the hardest puncher in the world at this time. We have Canelo Alvarez who has won titles in several weight divisions including Light heavyweight. We have Olexander Usyk Who was undefeated and undisputed as a cruiserweight champion and who recently came up to the heavyweight division and defeated the 6'6 Anthony Joshua. Boxing is NOT dead, people are very susceptible to hype. If I recall, a UFC heavyweight champion is going to have a boxing match soon and receive probably a career high pay day. bOxIng iS dEaDd!!

Looks fake

@@spiros2310 THAT WASN'T FAKE. TEX HAD A CHIN LIKE FOREMAN/ALI COMBINED AND HE COULD PUNCH. EARNIE HAD A MONSTER PUNCH BUT TEX TOOK THEM AND WORE EARNIE DOWN. IF YOU FEEL THAT IT'S FAKE, WATCH HOLMES VS TEX COBB TO SEE HIS ABILITY TO TAKE A PUNCH. HE'S NOT THE KIND OF MAN YOU WOULD WANT TO GET PISSED OFF AS HE RARELY DID. CHECK OUT HIS FIGHT WITH NORTON TOO.

Cobb was an excellent fighter, and an even better man outside of the ring. Cobb was a serious threat to any pressure fighter, but with his style he had trouble with guys with quick lateral movement, and fast hands. Holmes was just too skilled, too quick, and too defensively sound for Cobb to catch him with anything significant before Holmes could circle out of punching range. Holmes could see everything coming at him. Unfortunately for Cobb, his style made him a walking target for Holmes jab and straight right hand, but that was the same case for almost everyone that went up against Holmes during the late 70's, and early 80's. Cobb had the skills to beat most fighters, but his slower, methodical style was tailor made for Holmes to exploit.

That was the fight that so disgusted Howard Cosell , because the ref refused to stop it when Cob fought for three rounds barely throwing a punch with Holmes just picking his shots and wailing away, that he retired calling fights

@@bjones8470 yep, Cosell wanted that fight stopped in the 4th

@@leapingcatproductions1777 Holmes was striking him with every punch.

Cobb said that if his performance could get Howard Cosell to retire from boxing, that maybe he (Cobb) would try to play in the NFL too! 🤣

The right hook at 6.09-6.20 ish......

If it’s the same interview I watched I love Randell’s answer to Johnny when Johnny ask him how he liked acting. Randell said “Hell Johnny, acting is easy….anybody who has lived with a woman for six months can act”.

Shavers wasn't able to get off his best shots because of a slick canvas. He even mentions it in his book.

It's true.@@robot7935

@@manictree5436 Then it was slick for his opponent also, no excuse.

@@j.dragon651 Cobb was not getting hit nearly as hard as others Shavers had faced because of the ring slickness.

both fighters had the same canvas now think how dumb that statement was@@manictree5436

it's the whiskers that count 😅😆

​@@nomasnofuss8393Dude had chest hair on his chest hair

Oliver McCall ? Lol

Dude, be quiet. Shavers was only 36, and Cobb was already 30, so neither were super young

Cobb headhunted too much after he got someone hurt, instead of going to the body and create openings and folding them other, he got the taste of the ending coming, which can be very bad

@@keithalfredanthonydonovan3757 EVERLAST

He was in Ace Ventura for five minutes too.

He actually only became an actor because he became famous as a top 10 heavyweight boxing contender. Amazing so many people did not realize he was a boxer as he is a legend.

@@shawnduncan7846 , fletch lives was a rough watch. Chevy Chase was pumping out 10 movies per year at that point, and quality was a coin toss. For every classic, there were 5 flops. Nothing but trouble....woof. not even tex could go 10 rounds with that movie. It did teach me that Tupac was a member of the digital underground.

@@mpicewe3023 Kickboxer too. Parallels with Francois Botha.

You should see the Cobb vs Larry Holmes fight. That was a Rocky movie fight. It went the distance - 15 rounds. Holmes' punches landed appeared at times to be about 97%. At one point late in the fight, Holmes was hitting Cobb, then turning to the ref and asking him to stop it, then hitting him again and turning back to the ref. Cobb joked years later that Holmes was in the same hospital with him after the fight because of all the damage to his hands. Cobb's story had it that the two fighters kept visiting each other's room all night.

​@@WilliamMunnyIIIhe would have destroyed any heavyweight on the cobbles

here's another classic George Foreman vs Ron Lyle ukposts.info/have/v-deo/pGhyipl8sK9-xKM.html

I dunno... Some of the 00's battles stood toe to toe with those days. Barrera v Morales or Ward v Gatti are definitely up there.

If you had been around back then you'd now be wishing you was younger, I sure do

​@@drak3yneither of those four men you mentioned were in the heavyweight division!

@@liamgraer9594 Fair. I missed the heavyweight part. You're right. Not many wars in that division. I'm racking my brain trying to think of anything besides Bowe/Holyfield, Tyson/Ruddock, or the like. ANd you're right. They pale in comparison to the older era.

Quarry is very good fighter against big punchers.He beat Ron Lyle,Mac Foster and Earnie Shavers.

Wow.Not many get to say they sparred with a legend like Shavers.That's quite an accomplishment even though he went light on you.

If Earnie Shavers would've developed a jab to go with that right hand, he would've been a HW Champion. Even without it, when he fought Holmes the second time, he hit Holmes so hard he was totally unconscious while heading to the canvas. Holmes later said it was the hardest punch he ever got hit with. He said the only thing that kept Earnie from taking his title that night was the canvas floor!! He was totally out until he hit the canvas. When his head hit the canvas, he said it woke him up!!!

Jerry was on form that day.

@@milojanis4901 ....I agree that a consistent jab and better, overall technique would have helped. But Shavers also had a persistent stamina problem. If he didn't KO his opponent early, he would be totally spent about halfway through the fight. That was his biggest issue.

Larry said that all he remembers was seeing a bright , white light after Shavers hit him. had any of those punches in the 7th round landed after the knockdown, Holmes would not have survived the round. but due to Shavers' detached retina, he could barely see.

Nobody likes Larry Holmes you're out FROM the hall

NO DOUBT ABOUT IT -- SHAVERS WAS PRETTY TOUGH TOO - HE ALWAYS SEEMED TO SLOW WAY WAY DOWN ABOUT THE 7TH ROUND -- HUNG IN THERE BUT DOWNSHIFTED INTO LOW GEAR

When and where did Ken Norton ever get classified as a great puncher??! No.....

I think the style of the time helped. It was less defensive and a bit more of a slugfest.

@@milojanis4901 Ken Norton was quite good

He had like 60 fights and 7 losses. He did go far lmfao

@@sky-oq5mr yeh that’s an impressive record but what I was trying to say ( obviously poorly) was that maybe he could have actually contended for a title if he dedicated himself solely to boxing but heh we’ll never know will we and I’m he loved the life he led mixing it up with fighting and acting it obviously suited him that way

He's not. He's a joke.

Cobb was a good fighter in two sports

​@@erepsekahsno he wasn't, he wasn't a world beater but he fought well enough to fight some of the best fighter in the world.

I've seen journeymen boxers look worse. He was well trained and knew what he was doing. Even if Ernie was past his prime, it was a good win.

@@erepsekahs Pakistani

Where were you when he needed ya?

Foreman

@@madamtuzam foreman is up there, but most of the greats of that era agreed Shavers hit harder. Ali said so, among others, even Foreman himself. It is true that Shavers is outside his prime here.

He definitely wasn't Iron Mike was😂

Because these were the golden days of boxing…. I man can take a knee if they can’t take anymore.

amen brotha

I know, right? How did that happen?

yes you are right,needed to be a little harder puncher

@@alfonsecoppola5938 I guess, because he was such a talented martial arts fighter, before he became a boxer, he relied on his kicks to disable his opponents. When he became a boxer, he lost his legs as weapons.

The only cobb I like is corn on the cobb

@@MilanzBulldog-pc6mw and, a good corn cob pipe with prime tobacco on an autumn evening, with a fifth of bourbon, watching the sunset.

@@angeloiodice9304 or corn on the cob smothered in whipped cream covered with hundreds and thousands yum lol and a watermelon with the top cut off and the inside ground up fill it with vodka pineapple peices and maybe a little orange juice yum and yum lol

was? he is still with us as far as I know...

@harriauvinen7045 and what I know of him is his past. All very inspiring. What I know of him currently is nothing. I apologize for my lazy use of language.

Yea if water wasn’t wet

Recipe for CTE

I'm wondering if his kickboxing skills hurt his boxing career. it seems like Randall would sometimes punch and leave himself in a bad position for boxing, whereas if he were kickboxing he was right where he could land a kick.

@@Scott-fy7fm Versus a recipe for living a boring, event-less life. People make choices.

​@@Scott-fy7fm he in his 70s is doing just fine

At the age of 78? That's a good innings.

If he took up boxing earlier in life, shavers would have been a champ

Non sense

Wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers third.

I can't hold that against Cobb. He got the most out of his career. If he fought in another era, he might have accomplished even more as a boxer, maybe even winning one of the major straps. Larry Holmes was likely the most skilled fighter to ever live. Cobb was a pretty skilled fighter in his own right, but going up against the greatest boxer/puncher/mover to ever live is a tall task for any man. Even other legends in their prime would have had a very tough time against any version of Holmes let alone during his absolute prime in the late 70's, and early 80's. Holmes was like Ali with a devestating telephone poll right hand. He had lightning fast hands, crisp punches, great footwork, great movement, and was an excellent defensive fighter with so many different techniques to stay safe. Cobb simply couldn't catch the guy with anything significant before he circled away. The moral of the story is it's a good thing that most fighters aren't Larry Holmes. I wouldn't want to see that guy on my schedule if I was a fighter. I think I would faint. Cobb's style worked pretty well against more physical pressure fighters that didn't use a ton of lateral movement. Still, Cobb could take the punishment from anyone and remain standing, even when he was outclassed by his opponent.

Indeed

Never fought shavers

Ali too. Technically Joe Fraizer since he always got up but they did stop his 2 fight with George and 1 with Ali. He was always standing tho

​@@sky-oq5mrJoe was pretty much koed in that fight against Foreman he was just a punching bag nothing more im sorry to burst your bubble

@@noobgun12 no. He got up Everytime. Had the fight not stopped he'd either have died or foreman would've gassed and got knocked out. Fraizer got up and fought every single time. You aren't a boxer, you aren't anything of note most likely so it doesn't really matter what you think or feel. When you die no one will remember you or your deeds. This message will probably be the only thing of note I have from you.