January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

dishes on their hands, they were so slow. I honestly think he would have
unraveled against Frazier, or several other opponents from career two. Foreman
would have been Liston on LSD, and would have knocked him out, as would have
Frazier too, most likely.By the time he fought the second time, his body
had matured, he was much more centered emotionally, was able to process his
experience in the ring and internalize it usefully as a ~man~ does, not like a
silly adolescent as he was as Clay, and as Ali, he’d discovered his crowning
virtue/curse – the ability to take a punch as no one ever has, ever. Consider
that as athletic as the man was, it was, in the end, his ability to take a punch
that allowed him to get by with so many things that he did, and to appear
brilliant doing them.|
|9/25/03 11:23:17 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|The Earnie
Shavers verses Jimmy Young first fight is listed as Earnie winning by 1st round
TKO over Young at the Boxing Records Archive at boxrec.com. It is possible this
listing is incorrect as I remember seeing somewhere else the bout listed as
Shavers winning by TKO in round number three. The second listing, I believe, is
correct. Shavers and Young fought to a draw the second time around.|
|9/25/03 12:41:59 PM|Massimo|Rome||e||||10|I think the Ali' that beat Cl.
Williams would have beaten any fighter ever ! Of corse, Williams wasn't a great
champion, but Ali' was really awesome that night ! Maybe that was his best
fight !|
|9/25/03 02:56:01 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|ESPN classic
showed Ali verses Patterson 1 this week. What a pitiful but brave performance
that Patterson put on. I could tell by the way Patterson moved that something
wasn't right with him. Of course his back had gone out early in the fight and
he not only had to endure a tremedous beating at the hands of Ali, it hurt him
just as bad to throw punches. It is amazing he stayed up for twelve rounds.
His corner or the referee should have stopped the bout as soon as the sixth
round when it was obvious he didn't have a chance of winning. There was no need
for him to take so much punishment. On a couple of occasions, a cornerman can
be seen lifting him up to try and help his ailing back but it did no
good.Of the rounds I saw, as some of them weren't on the program aired
on ESPN, I only gave Patterson one round, the first round. Ali did not land a
single punch and while Patterson only landed a couple of ineffective left hooks
and maybe two or so body shots in the round, he was pressing the action
throuhout the round. I haven't seen the scorecards for this fight but it
wouldn't surprise me if the judges gave Ali round one because he is Ali, not
because he did anything in the round. No fighter should be given a round for
not doing anything but dancing around. Of course, Ali controlled the rest of
the action in the fight with constant left jabs and fast combinations but he did
not do this in the first round. |
|9/25/03 03:42:01
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|I wonder how Ali
would have felt had Larry Holmes humiliated him, dancing around, as Ali used to
do (and Leonard), showboating, and just punching the bag?I think these
one sided things should be stopped. People get hooked on the Hollywood miracle
punch, and think it happens all the time, while actually, it rarely does. Of
course, fans would be upset with early stoppages, and some would say the fix was
in, but what can you do? There are always massacres in which fans will say their
man was in the fight, once in a while even that he was winning. |
|9/25/03 05:04:56 PM|Massimo|Rome||e||||10|Did anyone see Ali'-Mac Foster and
Ali'-Chuvalo 2 ? Were those beautiful fights ?Did Ali' deserve to win both
fights ?|
|9/25/03 06:06:20
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|I've seen the
second Ali-Chuvalo fight, and it was one of the most exciting boxing matches
anyone could hope to see - a real slugfest. I truly don't know where