January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

came, it could also go. With the amount of money he earned, and ESPECIALLY the
amount of money his fighting talent generated for so many others, there's no way
he should be broke. If only he had invested in the right kinds of long term
assets (like Larry Holmes did), he'd be rich beyond belief. I'm still not
convinced that he doesn't have money left. Also, he's probably good for another
big payday and maybe he can make that money last.As for average street joes
fighting against someone with ring experience: I've done it. Let's put it this
way, against other inexperienced guys my size, I'm very capable of holding my
own or even winning with ease at times. But the few times I stepped in with
someone with even a little REAL boxing experience, I was so far out of my
league, it was laughable. The thing that's most amazing about trained boxers is
how fast they throw punches. The speed and volume of punches is what will
confuse an average guy. Sure, you might be good at taking a punch or even
powerful enough to hurt someone with a punch---but you're in against a good
boxer and you go to punch him and he's suddenly in a different place. You have
a hard time avoiding his punches because they're coming from odd angles and your
reflexes are one step behind. These guys took it easy on me and stillI had
trouble defending. But it's the same with anyone who practices a craft. I can
hit a tennis ball around with most people, but once I played against a good
amatuer player and his serves were impossible to return. The ball went off his
racquet and just looked like a long green tube speeding at me. I didn't mind
losing the tennis match, but didn't really like having my mouth bleeding after
losing to the boxer!Question: Who is the best pound for pound HEAVYWEIGHT
of all time? Marciano? Our own J.Q.??? Holyfield? |
|2/12/04 02:52:33 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||Kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Angelo, Tyson
did have mentors, people who cared about him to get advice from but he turned
his back on them.A lot of it had to do with two men he really trusted,
Cus DiMato (I never know how to spell his name) and Jimmy Jacobs, both died,
early on in his career. He still had Bill Cayton but Cayton was not a father
figure to Mike, like Cus and Jacobs had been and Don King drove a wedge between
Tyson and Cayton as well as trainer Kevin Rooney by using the race card that
Mike could not trust whites, when it was King himself Mike should have been
watching out for. King's own racist rhetoric convinced Mike that he cared about
him because they were both black, when the truth was that King only cared about
green, how much money he could get out of fighters, did a lot to drag Tyson
down. |
|2/12/04 03:02:27 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Kent.
True, Cus D'Mato (Is that the spelling???) had earned Tysons trust---Tyson loved
him like real family---but beyond that, the early inner circle didn't hold up.
You're right---Don King had an easy time breaking things up and getting it to go
his way. Too bad for Tyson. Not only was he mismanaged financially, but I
truly believe that his greatness as a fighter was hampered by bad management.
Imagine Mike Tyson if he stayed the course he was on when he was 20 years old.
If Tyson focused primarily on boxing and shunned the celebrity factor (no Robin
Givens for example), he'd have been better off. If he had a strong management
team and steady trainer (like Ali and Leonard had Dundee), he would have fought
more frequently. I can't comment on his jail term---who knows if a better
situation would have kept him out of this trouble---but I do know that
inactivity in the ring spoiled his skills. If he kept busy enough as a Champion
or on his comeback trail to fight three times a year and stay in training, he'd
be more of a historic force. With that said: No excuses for losing to Buster
Douglas and precious few excuses for losing to Holyfield. |
|2/12/04 03:18:52
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|ROADSCHOLLETE: you
are wrong when you say that Tyson never had anyone that cared about him. His
original managmenet team did. But he dropped them for King. Could be,
and I also know that he had affection for Cus D'Amato. As I said before, Tyson's