Randall 'Tex' Cobb

Randall 'Tex' Cobb Biography

Randall Craig "Tex" Cobb is an American former professional boxer who competed in the heavyweight division. Widely considered to possess one of the greatest chins of all time, Cobb was a brawler who also packed considerable punching power. He began his fighting career in full contact kickboxing in 1975 before making the jump to professional boxing two years later.

He challenged Larry Holmes for the WBC heavyweight title in November 1982, losing a one-sided unanimous decision. Cobb took wins over notable heavyweights of his era such as Bernardo Mercado, Earnie Shavers, and Leon Spinks. He was ranked in the global top 10 heavyweight boxers by the Ring (in 1981 and 1982) and BoxRec (in 1982). In addition to his fighting career, he has also acted in numerous films and television series, usually appearing as a villain or henchman.

Examples include roles in the Coen brothers film Raising Arizona and the popular programs Miami Vice and Walker, Texas Ranger.

Randall 'Tex' Cobb Movies

Randall 'Tex' Cobb Quotes

Chaos in a Small-Town Encounter

Payroll Cashier: Government do take a bite, don't she?

Leonard Smalls: You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin Donuts, call a cop.

Feisty Hayseed: Well, which is it young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? I mean to say, if'n I freeze I can't rightly drop, and if'n I drop I'm a gonna be in motion.

Hayseed in Pickup: Son, you got a panty on your head.

Dot: Riley!. ... You take that diaper off your head! You put it back onto your sister!

Dot: You gotta get em diptet boosters yearly or else they'll develop lockjaw and night vision.

Dot: That there's for his orthodonture and his university. You soak his thumb in iodine and you might get by without the orthodonture, but it won't knock a thing off the university.

Moses: And when they was no meat we ate fowl, and when they was no fowl we ate crawdad, and when they was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.