January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

while Favre throws interceptions, Jerry was throwing punches!How is Ken
Norton doing? I know he had a car accident, maybe 15 years ago??? He suffered
head injuries. I read about it in SI (The article was actually about Ken Norton
Jr.). Why was Norton's relationship with his son strained? Does anyone know if
he made a full recovery from the injuries? Interesting because he had started
to do some acting back when he was still boxing, but I haven't seen or heard
from him in a long time. |
|1/21/04 08:35:26 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|I am glad
when some fighter with questionable credentials doesn't win at least a piece of
the heavyweight title. Last year Kirk Johnson had a good chance of holding on
to a slim lead in the ninth round and winning his fight agaisnt John Ruiz for
the WBA title but he was disqualified for low blows. It is bad enough that we
have to refer to Ruiz as a former champion even though he can't campare to our
own Jerry Quarry, who we can't call an ex champ, but Johnson too? That would
have been another slap in the face of our Jerry.It is not that Johnson
has no talent, because at times he has looked good. It is his poor work ethic.
He is 6'3" and he weighed in at 260 pounds for his fight agaisnt Vitali
Klitschko. That was dusgraceful!James Toney hit the nail on the head a
few months ago when he was asked about the big size of the heavyweights these
days. He had this to say, "a lot of them are just plain lazy. They don't like
to train hard and they don't like to run. That is why their weights are so
high." He added that he runs ten miles a day and that he just would eat
differently at heavyweight but continue to train just as hard, to keep himself
in top condition, even at higher weights than he used to fight at.|
|1/21/04 08:50:18 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Norton is not
doing too badly but he has slurred speech as a result of the accident that he
didn't have before.Norton, in his book, says that the problems he had
with Ken Jr. had to do with the younger Norton choosing to get married at an
early age. Norton Jr. took it as his father disapproving with who he was
marrying. The split between father and son lasted longer than either one of
them wanted because according to Norton Sr., they were both stubborn and neither
one of them, for a long time, would make the first move at ending the fued.
Both of them took the attitude that the other one should say he was sorry.|
|1/21/04 11:47:34 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Regarding the
weights of today’s heavies: years ago, and up until the 90’s the idea of
training was bring a fighter down to as light as possible a weight, without
weakening him. Today, it seems the idea is to get as big as possible. I heard
Lou Saverese interviewed and he was boasting that he "put on 15 lbs. In training
camp". Too many fighters think that because they lift weights they can weigh
just about anything or eat anything they want. Marciano for example could have
easily weighed 200 lbs. But Charlie Goldman knew he would be just as strong, but
more effective at 188 or so. |
|1/22/04 06:47:02
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|The problem with
weights and weight gain is that too many people think if they lift and gain,
they're automatically gaining all muscle. In truth, you can almost double the
strength of a muscle without any increase in size, so unless a fighter, or
anyone, is on steroids, true muscle gain is slow. Guys who say they added "10
pounds of muscle" in some short period of time, are fooling themselves. With a
lot of running, gain is slower yet.Hagler said he used to run 15 miles a
day for some fights. This and Toney's claim of running 10 a day are ~very~
suspicious, particularly if they're doing anything else. Fifteen a day (average)
is what an elite, world class marathon runner does, and 10 isn't far behind.
They might do these distances ~sometimes~, but not everyday.|
|1/22/04 08:37:16 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||Kentalllenent@aol.com||||10|I would say
6 to 8 miles is more likely but Toney's point is well taken, I do believe that
heavyweights of today don't train as hard as Jerry and his contemporaries did.