January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Yes, a lot of the fighters are bigger than earlier eras but no way is Johnson
supposed to weigh 260 pounds. About 230 is better for him.Would he have
done better against Klitschko if he came in lighter? I believe he very well
would have done better as he would have been more likely to avoid the punches he
got knocked out in the second round with and more likely to land punches of his
own. Klitschko still may have won the fight but Johnson would have made a
better fight of it.|
|1/22/04 09:07:48
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|No doubt everyone
can learn and benefit from modern day training information, but it has to
produce to be valuable. Strides have been made in diet, and I think weights are
good, along ~with~ traditional boxing training. I think there's value in
interval training, but only with lots of long slow (not ~too~ slow!) distance
running as a base. But, in the main, there's no other sport that'll get a person
is shape as boxing, plus one that includes elements of training that are
actually useful and carry over, even as guys trained three quarters of a century
ago.I think many modern fighters do faddish, flashy things, eat like
hogs, are too lazy to run and train really hard, and rationalize that they're
really big, so they must be bad. As long as they fight guys with similar
attitudes and training regimens, they're fine. Conditioning a person
maintains year 'round isn't ultimate peak form, but at the same time, I'm not
sure an athlete who takes huge amounts of sedentary time off (often accompanied
by drinking and weight gain), is able to get into peak shape either. A wiser
plan to is maintain somewhat of a base all the time. With the money involved and
the potential for serious injury, I'd be scared ~not~ to!|
|1/22/04 10:36:35 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|you are so right
roadman, sugar ray leonard said once he only runs 2 miles a day. anymore is a
waste, that time and effort must be put in sparring jumping rope etc.. You would
lose muscle tissue and fast twitch muscle fiber that you need for boxing, hagler
could run 15 miles, but theres no way he would do it everyday!|
|1/23/04 12:14:15 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Ciao RS !When a fighter says
he runs 10 miles a day doeshe mean 10 miles in a row or 10 miles
distribuited somehow in the whole day ? I'm sorry if this question is ingenous
or silly, but I really don't know ! If I ran for 1 mile in a row,I' d die of
heart failure ! |
|1/23/04 05:28:58 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|MASSIMO: He means
t0 miles in a row, without stopping. |
|1/23/04 06:07:38 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Thanks John !I' m not sure
that I could do 10 miles using a bycicle... I guess maybe I am not ready for a
Thrilla in Manilla yet...|
|1/24/04 06:52:21
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|I saw a funny
interview on a boxing bloopers tape once about a fighter who decided to set up
training in an area where some other fighters had trained, and there was a lake
nearby. He asked another fighter he knew who'd trained there where he ran, and
the other guy replied, "Around the lake." The lake was huge, probably on the
order of a half marathon or more, and ussuccessfully trying to run around it the
first day left the fighter exhausted. The next day he called the fighter who'd
given him the advice, and was told, "Not ~all~ the way around, just around the
lake ~area~!" :-)|
|1/24/04 07:02:09 AM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|that was written
in a training book put out by floyd patterson era 1974, i remember it|
|1/25/04 01:28:44 AM|Sean|Jersey||Emailppsinc@aol.com||||10|Hey in a topic not
related to Joe Frazier, Jerry Quarry or Muhammad Ali, what the hell was Larry
Holmes so bitter about? I just got done watching Larry vs Carl The Truth
Williams and Williams got robbed. He didnt beat Larry he kicked his ass, I also
thought witherspoon got robbed against Holmes, poiont being I guess was Larry