January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

count". It wasn't even a knock down. Chuvalo stuck out a lame jab and Jerry had
his feet crossed. Ali fight Jerry looked great and legendary in his refusal to
accept the decision to stop. I mean who was that guy. What a man. And his wins
were sensational underdog type come from behind fights of all time.....
What rock did that guy crawl out from to say some cheap negative stuff
like that. He sounds like a real moron. I love the posts and talking about my
favorite fighter of all time. As Jerry said that time "don't make me have to
make a comeback" |
|11/20/03 01:47:31
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Massimo -
Mathis was a perfect example of the fast big man who revolutionized
sports over the days when anyone huge was also a slow moving galoot. At one
time, in football for example, the real behemoths were strong, but were also as
slow as molasses, lumbering around like Frankenstein monsters carrying buckets
of water. Their endurance wasn't that great either (still isn't today, compared
to a boxer). A perfect example was the monstrous Dave Butz, a 300+ pound
defensive tackle for the Washington Redskins who once recovered a fumble and
started to run for the endzone, almost 85 yards away, but fell down after
sprinting 50 yards, because his legs had turned to rubber and he was too
exhausted to go any further. He joked later that he thought he was in a
marathon! :-)Of course, even today, fast and strong that they might be,
football linemen still carry a lot of fat for bulk. A 6'4" lineman will weigh at
least 270, many much more, while a fighter at that height, if he were in top
shape, would carry 220. The aerobic demands of boxing are just too much to carry
a lot of extra blubber, while in football, a player is in actual action only 15
minutes out of an hour, and a play that lasts even 30 seconds is rare. A boxer
won't carry the amount of muscle mass that a FB player does either.The
crossover, in terms of physical demands greatly favors the boxer. A fighter
wouldn't be tired at all at the end of a FB game, while a bulky football player
would probably be exhausted after just punching a bag for five rounds, and bags
don't punch back (unless their name is Oscar Bonavena).|
|11/20/03 02:05:22
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Fran -
Jerry Quarry going ballistic over the first Ali fight being stopped is a
great moment. Many fighters would have been secretly thinking, "Whew, thank
God," and would have been only pretending if they acted like they wanted to
continue. Ali must have thrown close to a couple of hundred punches in the first
round, and looked great. Then he started missing, JQ began smiling inwardly
(probably), realized what Ali had and didn't have, and began going to work. As I
mentioned once before, Jose Torres (a huge Ali fan) felt Ali would have won,
would have looked bad doing it (which he couldn't afford to do), but he also
said he wouldn't have bet money on Ali winning. He said Ali should have fought a
couple of bums, then maybe Quarry, Bonavena was good, then Frazier. Of course,
this would have also removed the BS excuses Ali had for being beaten by Frazier.
Going with Quarry was like advice Bundini gave to Ali when MA wanted Jeff
Merritt for a sparring partner after his layoff. He said that he (Ali) should
get in shape first - "It's hard for a hungry alligator to bite soft,
champ!"Getting back to Quarry and storming around the ring when the
fight was stopped, this is in a class with Frazier being asked if he was hurt in
Manilla and replying, "I wouldn't say I was hurt, I just couldn't see the man."
:-) to both!|
|11/20/03 02:37:13 PM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|RS-Shaq is twice bigger than
Mathis and he is very fast too ! I don't know if Calvin Lane is fast ? What do
you think about ? Maybe we should investigate ! We should go to Dallas, we
should offend him and then try to run away ! LOL!|
|11/20/03 02:59:01 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Surely Giancarlo has a right to his
views - perhaps we should invite him to explain and back up his words : - |