D Large
Our boy Don Khan left a comment this morning on my James Brown eulogy that posed a question for the ages:
What song would you pick to accompany your entrance to the ring, had you that opportunity?
Oh No Masians don't tell me you haven't thought about this about a zillion times. As I said in my message, this simple question has preoccupied me for years. I've never been able to narrow it down to one, so I just gave him my top five:
1. Fight the Good Fight - Triumph
2. Bad Boy Boogie - AC/DC
3. Mystic Eyes - Them
4. Recognize - ODB
5. War Pigs - Sabbath
I also have this fantasy where one of my celebrity friends (I'm like the unified champ at 154, see, so I have a TON of celebrity friends), maybe Raekwon, has put together a rap specially for my entrance called "Larger than Large." And when I get to the ring, I open up my robe and I'm wearing a huge belt that reads "D Large" and yo yo, the D is for Diamonds.
Larry Holmes told me that he personally invented the whole walking into the ring to a song thing when he went into his title fight with Ken Norton in '78 to "Ain't No Stopping Us Now." I've never exactly researched that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.
Certainly Tyson was the king of the ring entrance, "Don't Believe the Hype" of course, and then that crazy didgeridoo type vibrating bass noise that was playing when he came into the ring against Spinks. It wasn't a song, just a very loud terrifying sound, like the only thing you ever hear in hell. As if Spinks wasn't afraid enough already.
The best ring entrance I've ever witnessed personally was Dmitri Salita at the Hammerstein coming into the ring with Matisyahu behind him rapping. There was a live band in the corner playing. It was loud as all getout and all the Hasids in the audience were going absolutely apeshit. When they got to the ring, Matisyahu kept rapping and Dmitri bounced around throwing punches. He was amped, we were all amped. It was ill with a capital ill.
I write this all as a preface to hearing from all my people out there in No Mas land. I want to know what your nickname would be, what song you'd walk into the ring with, what your robe would look like, etc. Best ring entrance ever, best ring entrance you've ever witnessed. Let's air it all out right here. Get in the ring, have no shame.
What song would you pick to accompany your entrance to the ring, had you that opportunity?
Oh No Masians don't tell me you haven't thought about this about a zillion times. As I said in my message, this simple question has preoccupied me for years. I've never been able to narrow it down to one, so I just gave him my top five:
1. Fight the Good Fight - Triumph
2. Bad Boy Boogie - AC/DC
3. Mystic Eyes - Them
4. Recognize - ODB
5. War Pigs - Sabbath
I also have this fantasy where one of my celebrity friends (I'm like the unified champ at 154, see, so I have a TON of celebrity friends), maybe Raekwon, has put together a rap specially for my entrance called "Larger than Large." And when I get to the ring, I open up my robe and I'm wearing a huge belt that reads "D Large" and yo yo, the D is for Diamonds.
Larry Holmes told me that he personally invented the whole walking into the ring to a song thing when he went into his title fight with Ken Norton in '78 to "Ain't No Stopping Us Now." I've never exactly researched that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.
Certainly Tyson was the king of the ring entrance, "Don't Believe the Hype" of course, and then that crazy didgeridoo type vibrating bass noise that was playing when he came into the ring against Spinks. It wasn't a song, just a very loud terrifying sound, like the only thing you ever hear in hell. As if Spinks wasn't afraid enough already.
The best ring entrance I've ever witnessed personally was Dmitri Salita at the Hammerstein coming into the ring with Matisyahu behind him rapping. There was a live band in the corner playing. It was loud as all getout and all the Hasids in the audience were going absolutely apeshit. When they got to the ring, Matisyahu kept rapping and Dmitri bounced around throwing punches. He was amped, we were all amped. It was ill with a capital ill.
I write this all as a preface to hearing from all my people out there in No Mas land. I want to know what your nickname would be, what song you'd walk into the ring with, what your robe would look like, etc. Best ring entrance ever, best ring entrance you've ever witnessed. Let's air it all out right here. Get in the ring, have no shame.
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First off, I was next to Large when Matisyahu serenaded Salita. He nearly asked me to sign him up for Intro to Judaism classes.
My shit is between two songs: "Win in the End" by Mark Safan, which some readers may recognize as the song that plays during Michael J. Fox's (non-wolf) 36 point second half in "Teen Wolf" ... and LA Woman by The Doors.
True dat, A-Co was right there, proudest Jewish mothafucka I ever did see. I swear, the Jews could have taken over all five boroughs that night, with I-berg leading the militia. They was lit UP.
L.A. Woman. Definitely rocks. A nickname for A-Co? I'm thinking The Baron myself, although that is maybe a little more WWE than WBC.
P.S. - I got to add a song to my list that I forgot - "City Slang" by Sonic's Rendezvous. A little obscure I know, but yo, after listening to that song you start thinking that it white motherfuckers from Detroit are the meanest dudes on earth.
When I walk in: EPMD So Whatcha Sayin'
After I get knocked out: Don't Get Weary Joe Frazier by I-Roy (a heartfelt message of encouragement for Smokin Joe after Foreman made him do the humpty in Kingston)
"Brother Joe I know you was very stout
But the brother called Foreman hits hard in any bout
as I would tell ya
So you got to be careful like I say,
effective blues you got to use"
Large, my boy, you better stop thinking about your entrance song and work on that jab.
I dont know what I would pick, but the worst has got to be anyone that comes out to the Rocky theme.
My entrance in the ring would be a mix.
First Mos Def's intro from every single one of his albums "Bismillahi Rahmani rahim", a little "Scream Now" by JoeyStarr to get everybody amped. Followed by forty five seconds of "U don't Know remix" (Jay-Z ft. M.O.P) between billy Danze's and hov's verse. When jay goes "turn my music high high high-er", fade to "97 mentality" by Cappadona and Ghostface for the chorus and end it with Joey Starr's verse on "My benz".
The Illest thing to do when I'm the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world would be to have Joey himself rap "Paris sous les Bombes" and "seine Saint-Denis Style" on my way to the ring.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xPUSdM9hBnw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s1yP5Q2iHHQ
I'd have a purple robe with gold wrinting looking like an old Laker uniform. On the Front, number 93 (department of Seine Saint-Denis where I was Born), Dakar on the sleeve.
On the back, you'll see "LA BOMBE DE SAINT-DENIS" written in cursive.
The Shorts would be black, Julian Jackson style black suede with the senegalese flag and the parisian cocarde.
Black Adidas Shoes with one pair having green, gold and red stripes and the other having royal, white and red ones. Black laces.
Kinda busy but I'm the man who unified the belts.
When I'm done humiliating another challenger, Shaggy's "Mr. Bombastic" would blast on repeat.
Chiefrocka-Lords of the Underground (this song was clearly written for me)
My entrance would be Woody Harrelson-"You mean play basketball?"-style; inspire overconfidence in my opponent. Advantage? Yes, please.
Thus, musicwise, Dylan's "Apple Suckling Tree" or "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", Beck's "Beercan" or "Go It Alone", Talking Heads. Something to start the dance but not overtly pugilistic. Of course, a couple fights into it, after having distributed some beatings and the word is out and up the ruse, I'll have to change hypothetical tactics, at which point Outkast's "Knowing". If I may wax velveeta, a remix of Paul Simon's "The Boxer" that starts the same but introduces African drums under "All lies and jest..." and progresses to something thunderous, all of which perpetrated by no less than the man who invented rap: Paul Simon.
The get-up: either all white or all black sneakers; the shorts: an understated plaid number, gray and blue, pockets, no pleats; later, during the "Knowing", Fab-Five-style gameshorts but with a 'K' instead of an 'M', colors to be determined; robe: terrycloth; possibly faux leopard-skin a la LaMotta, though I'd go snowcat. A Tysonesque hole cut into a talles (or Jewish prayer shawl for the uninformed) would be sweet but too disrespectful.
Slogan: "Sting like a porcupine, float like a raft..."
In this corner we have the funk bodysnatcher
Time 4 Sum Aksion - Redman
is there any better of a song?
i doubt it.
crime mob - ill beat yo azz. i think this one's pretty self explanatory haha
-drew
ps my blogger name/link is messed up (andrew?), im working on it
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don't know if you know of him or have seen any of his fights but (redfern, sydney's finest) Anthony Mundine's latest ring entry has to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen, wearing a silk sleeveless formfitting robe with a tuxedo print! the man entered strapped with a madonna mike rapping along to his own (terrible) song!!
The faux tux ringwear, rapping to his own terrible music? Sounds like it might have been Roy Jones in disguise.
And oh yeah, Don Khan - thanks for getting this whole thing started and big props on Apple Suckling Tree. Myself though, if I was going Basement Tapes, I think it would have to be Million Dollar Bach. "I looked at my watch, I looked at my wrist... I punched myself in the face with my fist..."
It's pretty tough to top "LA BOMBE DE SAINT DENIS" but I think that using a foreign language is just a totally unfair advantage in the nickname game.
Personally, I am leaning to "THE TIMID JEW OF THE WEST VILLAGE". I bet even that sounds tough in French.
To steal a page out of winky's book I am going to all business (business casual that is) and come out in a gray turtleneck sweater and beige cordury pants which tear away to reveal calf length white shorts with navy trim and applique star of David.
Madsear, what's my name fool?
On a serious note MS, you are hands down the commenter of the week. You win a t-shirt or a job or something. Please contact us offline: [email protected]
Dammmmnnnn - I'm loving the fact that you guys were at D's fight when Matisyahu brought him in. (I've met Chris at the fights). I'm D's attorney/advisor (there are no managers anymore) and I was right behind everybody walking in. That was the best local fight entrance I've been involved in.
I was repping Cory Spinks when he beat Mayorga and also Judah (in the first fight). Unfortunately, I missed the Nelly entrance of the second Judah fight.
I always loved Lennox Lewis's entrance for the rematch with Hasim Rahman (or Hasbeen Rahman as LL called him). Lennox wearing his Jamaican bad-boy expression while the lean-mean funk of James Brown's "The Big Payback" plays in the background. I just thought that was classic and it so fit the mood. The fact that LL served Rahman with that beautiful three-quarter left hook, turned over right hand wikked styleee put an exclamation point on it.
If I fought now - my nickname would be "The Anvil" because I take a pounding. My music would be "Why Can't We Be Friends?" And my robe have some goldfish in it - Huggybear style - because goldfish have a calming effect on people.
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