LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!

A certain ring announcer made this his trademark catchphrase whenever he was about to introduce a bout, in which two physically endowed men punched each other with all the strength they could garner, without mercy and in certain instances, one party literally beaten to pulp. He’s made over $ 400m from patenting these few words. Michael Buffer made this catchphrase gain currency in our boxing parlance. It’s almost like it’s impliedly supposed to be screamed at every boxing bout the world over.

It usually goes like this: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLET’S GET READY TO RUMBBBBBLLLLLLLEEEEEEE!!! [Yeah! The tongue is kept rolled in the mouth in order to stretch the ‘L’ in “let’s”!] I usually wouldn’t ‘enjoy’ a boxing bout whenever I missed that phrase, even if it was the infamous bout in which the church usher Evander Holyfield got his ear bitten by a certain bald-headed heavyweight Iron Mike Tyson whose punch weighed more than a bag of Ghacem cement, or the latter’s famous tumultuous defeat by the dreadlocked Brit Lennox Lewis. It was that serious, really!