January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

waiting for the first Frazier/Foreman-type opponent to end the
party.Actually, Ali doesn't do that much real boxing in the Foreman
fight. He mostly lets George whale away on him, occasionally throwing out a
reaction punch or two, sometimes a combination. I'm not even sure I'd call them
counters, as opposed to just survival replies, but I don't have a problem with
"counter." I personally thought Rumble in the Jungle was a very dull fight.
Let's put it this way - if you saw that same fight on an undercard somewhere,
would you say it was a mind-blower? Only what the fight meant affords it any
excitement at all. IMO, anyway.|
|12/18/03 02:29:29 PM|Pete|USA||pco@intel||||10|To suggest that the Ali/Foreman
fight was suited to an undercard...what are you guys & girls smoking??? That
fight was a classic. Ali, back on top, outsmarting and outboxing "THE MUMMY".
Foreman got what he deserved. George's greatest fight was against Frazier. Joe
just couldn't get enough of that down home pounding and kept coming back for
more. Who did George fight after winning the championship and before losing the
championship to Ali...a nobody by the name of King Roman and of course Ken
Norton. After losing to Ali he beat Joe again, Lyle(after Lyle kicked his ass
through most of the fight), Scott Ledoux and was defeated by Jimmy Young. The
Ali/Holmes title match was not fixed, Ali did a number on Foreman. It was one of
the greatest moments in heavyweight boxing; too bad Ali didn't retire after that
one.|
|12/18/03 04:46:53 PM|Paul|Sydney, Australia||PlMls4@aol.com||||10|To summarise
RS's recent comments: "Foreman was a better boxer than Ali". "Ali v Foreman
was fixed." "Ali did many things wrong (as a boxer"). "Without his punch
worthiness, Ali was just another showy speedball." RS - this fluff that you
write might sound good when you read it back to yourself, but it really is just
unsubstantiated nonsense. You habitually make outrageous statements, either
trying to get a reaction or more probably to try to convince yourself that you
are an expert, but you never produce any evidence to back up your opinion. For
instance, for the 'fix' allegation you only rely on your opinion that it was an
improbable upset and that Ali was overrated. The comment about Ali being
"nothing but a showy speedball" makes me wonder whether you have ever been to a
fight. It's clear that for whatever reason (and I have my suspicion) you hate
Ali and your jaundiced mind is intent on discrediting him. I'm sorry......but
your repeated petty rubbishing of Ali is childish. |
|12/18/03 05:32:04
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmai.com||||10|I apologize from
the heart of my bottom. I forgot that it was verboten ever to criticize St.
Muhammed.|
|12/18/03 10:34:32 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|I have
recently just watched Foreman verses Moorer again and it was not just a one
punch knockout as Foreman hit Moorer with some hard one-two combinations leading
up to the final blow. Moorer appeared hurt before the knockout punch and he
could not avoid the punch.Moorer said afterwards that it was not part of
a plan Foreman had set up and that Foreman just got lucky. I agree with this
assesment because why would anyone take a beating for almost ten rounds if he
could avoid the punishment by winning earlier?I mention Foreman, version
two, verses Quarry because I remember the talk going around that Foreman, when
he won the title the second time, would destroy Tyson and I was laughed at when
I said Jerry could beat him, Jerry's prime verses older Foreman and if Jerry
could beat Foreman, then Tyson could also.I think Bowe's best days in
the ring did not last very long but at his best, he was very hard to beat. The
Holyfield fights took a lot out of him and he was not the same fighter by the
time he fought Golota.|
|12/18/03 11:15:31 PM|Paul|Sydney, Australia||PlMls4@aol.com||||10|Maybe the
heart of your bottom makes more sense, RS. Apart from accusing Ali and Foreman
of being fight fixers without citing anything more than a biased hunch, I recall