“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

— Barbados Joe Walcott

Some sources claim it was said first by Walcott http://coxscorner.tripod.com/walcott.html, but the English version of this ancient proverb is generally attributed to Bob Fitzsimmons, as documented in the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs ( 6th edition, 2015, p. 26 https://books.google.com/books?id=LMGPCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26).
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