January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

that caught Jerry off balance not a left hook. I don't remember any exchanges
because it didn't seem like Chuvallo could move with Jerry. I'd like to see the
film again. Jerry dominated and outclassed Chuvallo the whole fight except for
what was a flash knockdown. Jerry got right up because it was what it was a
flashknockdown. He was told to take the 8 count. |
|11/24/03 07:00:32 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Fran - Hopefully the Quarry website
will load a clip - that would be nice. |
|11/24/03 07:24:10 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|I look at
it this way: When two boxers meet, it doesn't matter who the better fighter is-
--it only matters who the better fighter is on that particular day. In other
words, I don't care how much better Mike Tyson might have been than James
Douglas. Douglas was superior the night they met. I think back to Jerry's
career---and I believe he did enough to beat Ellis. There are people, including
Kent, who believe Norton beat Ali at Yankee Stadium. This is different---these
are examples of contested decisions. But I'm referring more to upsets or guys
who lost because of "the flu," "a knee injury," etc. If you're standing there
when the bell rings, and the other guy KO's you or wins a clear decision, there
aren't any excuses. It's why Mike Weaver was better than Tate, Ali was better
than Foreman, and yes, on that night in 1971, hard as it is for me to admit,
Frazier was clearly better than Ali. |
|11/24/03 07:58:57 PM|KOOKOO|NY||KOOKOOCLOCK000@YAHOO.COM||||10|OK, HERE GOES,
I'VE SEEN BLACK GUYS ALL MY LIFE THAT HAVE MUSCLES, NEVER LIFTED ONE WEIGHT, IT
IS JUST NATURAL, JUST A FACT, SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE THIS AS A RACIST
STATEMENT, WHITES JUST AREN'T THE ATHLETES THAT BLACKS ARE, THATS THE BIOLOGY OF
IT, THATS WHAT JERRY WAS UP AGAINST, I DON'T EXPECT ANYONE HERE TO AGREE, THAT
WOULD NOT BE PC. KOO KOO |
|11/24/03 08:31:29
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|I argued this
point on another forum once. The thing is that many people are so full of
PCness, are such parrots who learn what the right thing is to say, that they
don't bother to observe and to think. Why is it racist to say what every sports
fan knows and what the athletes themselves know? If blacks are more genetically
blessed in certain ways on average than whites, so what? Kind of a compliment,
if you ask me. Many people like to congratulate themselves though and say that
any averaged statement is a generalization, therefore automatically false, and
with evil intent to boot.Sure, blacks work hard, but white athletes work
just as hard. Aren't there as many white kids going out for football,
basketball, and track? Are they all lazy? Wanna have an all white team? Good
luck winning many games (as the southern universities found out decades ago).
Here are a couple of links re this
subject:http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/23/bs.00.htmlhttp://www.
kenanmalik.com/reviews/entine_taboo.htmlFor more, do a search on Jon
Entine, who's written a book on the subject, and gets into real depth on the
topic.|
|11/24/03 08:38:49 PM|KOOKOO|NY||KOOKOOCLOCK000@YAHOO.COM||||10|I JUST CAN'T
BELIEVE MY EYES, ROADMAN YOU GOT GUTS MAN, YOU ARE SMART AND KNOW I'M RIGHT, I'M
WAITING FOR THE REST OF THE PEOPLE TO START WITH THE EXCUSES, I'M SURE THEIR ON
THE WAY :) KOO KOO|
|11/24/03 10:01:47 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|There are
less whites going into competitive sports such as boxing than there used to be.
In the past, white ethnic groups such as Polish, Italian, German, and Jewish,
didn't have a as much of a chance to escape poverty as they do now and a lot
them went into boxing with success. There are not many fighters such as Carman
Basilio, Jake LaMotta, Gene Fullmer, Mikey Walker, etc. around today. These
fighters mentioned all had skill to compete at the highest levels and they would
sitll be competitive if they fought today. Most of the would be Basilios,
Klitschkos, Fullmers, Walkers, and LaMottas, have better educations than their