January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Marciano, however I'd go for Rocky now. |
|1/2/05 04:05:13 AM|Massimo "Smaller than death" Cini|Roma||Shaq-
Fu.com||||10|Noam-I don't consider Marciano that much Italian. He was
born in USA, spent there all of his life playing baseball all the time and used
to say yoos. I think if somebody have asked Marciano: which(or what) is your
home, he would have said: USA, man.When the Frenchs wanted Primo Carnera to
join the French army he said: NO WAY, I AM ITALIAN ! That's a real green-white
and red Italian !!!!!When Marciano fought the legendary Rex Layne, Rex
was an up and coming heavyweight and was given 9-5 against the Rock. He fought
well in the first 5 rounds but in the sixth Rocky hit him with a devastating
right hand and Rex went down and out. Rex was 6'1" tall, wilter than Kent. He
would have made me look andre'.|
|1/2/05 04:43:09 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Noam-Who were Don Corleone and
Luca Brassi ?|
|1/2/05 06:09:40 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Cassius Clay was knocked down by
Sonny Banks in 1962 also.|
|1/2/05 09:09:22 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|I always have
this discussion with my friend of Italian ancestry. I, like Massimo, call him
American not Italian as he speaks no Italian and he has never been to Italy. He
still has a strong indetification with his Italian roots and this is fine but in
the end he concedes he really is an American first.It is not surprising
that Massimo would not know much about Americans of Italian ancestry such as
Corleone as they are not in Italy. They have a connection with Italy and likely
had relatives there but they are famous or infamous here in the
U.S.Italians from Italy, while they can appreciate a fighter like
Marciano as a great fighter don't claim him as one of their own. Just as
Mexicans don't claim Oscar De La Hoya as a Mexican as he was born in the United
States. He is an American of Mexican ancestry. Non Mexican Americans think
that the Mexican fans would root for De La Hoya but the Mexican fans don't
always root for him as he was born here in the U.S.|
|1/2/05 09:33:41 AM|max hord|fernandina bch,fla||maxhord@adelphia.net||||10|Glad
to hear some folks are giving credit to Marciano.As I have always said Marciano
was truly a GREAT fighter.49-0.Truly great fighters don't get beat much less
knocked out.Great fighters beat whoever is there at the time and don't stay in
the game too long.Larry Homes was almost a great fighter.I said ALMOST.|
|1/2/05 10:57:37 AM|Angelo|DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|I was born in 1963, well
after Rocky Marciano was out of the game. I grew up idolizing Muhammad Ali, and
I still do. I used to think the smaller, "outdated" Marciano couldn't match up
well against guys from my era, like Ali, Foreman, Frazier, etc. But after
watching films of his fights, hearing the comments of his contemporaries and
also boxing historians---and even hearing what Mike Tyson had to say about
Marciano's greatness---I've changed my view. He clearly was the best of his era
and punched extremely hard. He was also determined to win at any cost. This
guy would make up for a smaller size with punches that would break the ribs of
modern fighters and take their will. |
|1/2/05 02:15:14 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Max Hord, I
disagree that Larry Holmes was not a great fighter. Yes he did not equal
Rocky's record of 49-0 and he didn't leave the game undefeated but just because
we call Rocky great doesn't mean Larry wasn't great also. He beat almost
everyone from his era that was of note and there was a period of time, 1978 to
1982 when he could have beaten almost all fighters from any era.Yes,
there were some close calls when in a close fight he got the decisions but most
of them occured after his period of greatness and I don't see why him staying
around too long, which he did, causes his best years to be tarnished as he was
the dominate heavyweight of his era.Muhammed Ali also stayed around too
long but he was also a great fighter who had his period of greatness regardless
of the later stage of his career.It is not a contradiction to say that