January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

for the wildcard uppercut to win by KO and turn a spotty performance into a
memorable classic. This is what GREAT Champions are made of. Lewis has lost
fights, and plodded his way to dull wins against opponents he should have
outclassed easily. Simply, I don't think you can mention him with the alltime
greats. He leads the pack of the second tier.On another note, I love
reading this board to see everybody's recall of the super fights and fighters of
the 60's and 70's. It seems amazing to call the 60's and 70's a "simpler time"
because of all the social commotion that was going on---but part of me thinks
that we all love to go back in our minds to a time when we were younger---and
watching the Jerry Quarry video accomplishes that! Wow, it's Jerry in his 20's
and 30's, in his prime, taking me back to a time when I was a young kid enjoying
boxing on TV. Some of the older people who write on this board might have been
about Jerry's age at the time, in the prime of their lives. Sorry to bore
everyone! But I do have a question for all of you: Who would win Norton vs.
Lennox Lewis? If both were in their primes, I think this would be an
interesting fight. Mr. Norton was the arch nemesis of my favorite, Ali (Well,
maybe Frazier was the ARCH nemesis, but Norton was right up there!). Norton
certainly earned my respect by beating Ali in their first fight, winning on
points against a prime Jimmy Young, the devastating KO of Bobick, KO of Lorenzo
Zanon and even the win over JQ, as well as the loss to Holmes. The irony is
that Norton showed how much heart he had in that loss more than in most of his
wins. He had trouble against the larger guys like Foreman and (late in his
career) Cooney. To me, this one might be too close to call. I don't think it
would go the distance---but then again, Norton-Holmes went the full 15. But
against Lennox Lewis, I would think that either Lewis would back him up like
Foreman and Shavers did, landing the heavy leather to take Norton out early---or
Norton would find his groove, wear Lewis down, and win by middle round KO or
TKO. What does everyone else think? |
|6/26/03 07:35:04 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|ON NORTON VS.
LEWIS: Norton was a hard guy to evaluate. He looked great in all of his fights
against Ali (in my opinion he easily won the third one) and against Quarry and
Young. He looked really bad against Shavers and Foreman. I don't count the
Cooney fight as he was so old at the time. He did have excellent stamina and
good punch and was a thinking man in the ring. If Lewis went out there
headhunting and throwing power shots he would probably ko Norton. If Lewis
fought his usual tentative style he would lose a decision or be kayoed in a late
round. Too close too call both me were good, both had flaws that could be
exploited by an expert. |
|6/30/03 12:23:08 PM|Dan Cunningham|San
Francisco||DGCSOCCER@AOL.COM||||10|Having looked through some of the comments
made in the past from certain individuals. I would have to disagree with them
about the quality of Gerry Cooneys fighting ability. Cooney may not have given
us the match-ups that we wanted to see but I can say that Cooneys left hook was
devastatingly lethal. I have watched several of his fights and several hours in
sparring as well as reading how foes rated him. Sure he lacked good
training,jab, right hand but there were a lot of champions who did not have
certain tools required but who made up for it(tried to) with the ones they had.
Cooney could bang with the left. Ask Jimmy Young, Ron Lyle or Ken Norton.
Whether he fought them when they were 37 or 27, I think they could rate his
punch better than some of the people downplaying Cooney in this arena!|
|6/30/03 02:26:25 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|One thing I DO know Dan IS Cooney did
have a good left hook,wether he'd have beaten a younger lyle,Norton,is
questionable,another thing We know for sure in NEVADA,when he fought Foreman, we
were rooting big time for George,and very concerned about Big GEORGE'S SAFETY|
|6/30/03 10:48:46 PM|Kent Appel|L:a Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Dan.
you are right, Cooney had a great left hook and he was a good fighter. The