January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

the ring, Ali has a lot of stock phrases for situations he was in or questions
he was asked. Especially now with his speech problems he uses these phrases with
repetition. For instance, how many times you heard him say, "You ain't as dumb
as you look", etc. Much of his early stuff seemed to have been rehearsed with
Bundini, and then Howard Cossell led them from there. Massimo - I like spgahetti
too. My weight fluctuates between 15.5 and 17 stone depending on the amount of
exercise and swimming I do. I've got weights to use at home. I'm 6 foot tall. I
love food too much and when others are 'shouting', I drink too much. Cheers. |
|12/21/03 05:11:19
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|There was never
anyone, bar none, who bobbed and weaved as effectively as Frazier, also possibly
the best inside fighter ever, or certainly one of a handful of elite. One thing
I suspected was confirmed by Eddie Futch, via some research I've been doing. Joe
certainly bobbed to evade punches, and as part of his rolling rhythm. Whether
intended of not, I also saw it as being a little in the genre of the sleight of
hand employed by magicians; it intensified ever more the appearance of
aggression (which was real enough ~without~ the bobbing and weaving!). IOW,
illusion to enhance, rather than replace reality.I also used to think
Frazier used bobbing to invite Ali to throw an uppercut (to which Joe would
respond with a left hook). Futch confirmed this. He said they had two
strategies. One was to wait for Ali to throw his (substandard) right uppercut at
Frazier's bob (which he sometimes exaggerated for this purpose), then throw the
left. The other technique was to step in, let the uppercut graze his chest, then
let the left hook fly. He also doubled up a lot, most often body to head. Ali
was, as we know, as impervious to punches as a human can be, but if Joe could
get him to block one, he'd double up to the head (how he knocked Ali down in the
first fight).|
|12/21/03 09:27:27 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|RS, it
doesn't matter if a person's self interest is the reason he or she does
something. For example, Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to stand up or
go to the back of the bus, did so because she had just worked a long, hard day
and her feet were tired. This one self serving act sparked the bus boycott, one
of the turning points in the civil rights movement here in America. That Ali
didn't really care about things that didn't apply to him or were not in his best
interest (not going in the army) is not of significance as he was the individual
caught up in the middle of the social events of the times. Also, just because
Ali was not good at reading and writing does not mean he wasn't intelligent.
Verbal skill is also reflective as showing intelligence and Ali was a very
skilled speaker. Your comment that Ali was not a deep thinker mplies he is not
intelligent. Ali was not well educated but he was and is very intelligent In
addition to this, often the most simple statement is the most profound and being
good at reading and writing does not mean someone has the common sense to say
something like, "Aint no Viet Cong ever called me nigger!" One more thing to
add, Ali stood his ground and he showed courage for standing up for his beliefs
by not running to Canada like a lot of draft dodging cowards did. If these
other individuals really believed that the war was unjust, and they had the guts
to stand up for what they believed in, then they should have risked going to
prison, like Ali did.I would also like to point out that the Nation of
Islam, AKA the Black Muslims, was and still is an obscure sect with racially
bised views that Ali does not associate with anymore and this group does not
reperesent main stream Islam in any way, shape, or form. RS, you should have
clarified you were speaking about this obscure sect and not Muslims in general.
My own beliefs are Christian but I don't lump other religions into one
big group. I believe that extremism in any form, regardless of the belief, is a
true enemy of humanity. NOTE: RS, I DON'T THINK YOU ARE BEING AN EXTREMIST JUST
BECAUSE YOU REFERRED TO MUSLIMS IN YOUR POST. IT JUST NEEDED CLARIFICATION.|
|12/21/03 10:00:12 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA