January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

giving) Marciano a hard time than big ones like Vitali. I think Vitali
would have likely fallen in 1 against Marciano. |
|1/2/05 04:06:19 PM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Ezzard Charles also gave Marciano two
of his toughest battles ( especially in their first fight). Well, Ezzard Charles
weighted about 185 lbs as well. |
|1/2/05 04:33:23 PM|Noam|same||ghytsy||||10|MassimoRocky must get the
recognition for NEVER losing. Sure, many of the guys he fought were smallish
(for example, Charles was previously a middleweight) but Rocky still beat them
all.But how would Rocky have gone if his fights were 12 rounds instead
of that era's 15 ? There were many times he was behind on points at the 12 round
mark, so does that mean he would be less effective today ? In my opinion, he
would have stepped the pace up earlier and would win anyway.In regards
to Larry Holmes, many of us forget that Larry was only two months short of his
36th birthday when he suffered his first (controversial) loss of his
professional career to Spinks.Before then he had beaten 48 in a row. Wow
! Fans regard him as a boxer primarily, but we forget that he stopped 34
opponents within the distance. Larry has to be in the top 10 heavies of all time
and I'd have him high on that list.|
|1/2/05 05:58:03 PM|max hord|fernandina
bch,fla||maxhord@adelphia.net||||10|Kent.Point well taken.My vote on the
greatest of all time has to be Marciano until somebody else proves that in
ability and reasonable longivity in the heavyweight picture.|
|1/2/05 11:12:06 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Noam, my
ancestry is mixed, white and Native American Indian.I am a descendant of
a German Jew, from Northern Germany (Prussia) and also a descendant of a Luiseno
Mission Indian (native Californian) and of an Apache from Arizona.
Although I am a member of a prominent California tribe, I was raised
white in the suburbs and there are probably some Indians who would not see me as
a true Indian as I have never lived on a reservation nor have I obsorbed the
Indian culture. In fact, the last direct relative that lived on a reservation
was my great-grandmother, although I do have cousins who have since returned to
the reservation and who have lived there in recent years.I have been
studying the native language for the past two years in an effort to help
revitalize the language (an original California dialect) and I have learned some
things about the culture but there is much to learn.|
|1/3/05 02:09:42 PM|Noam|same||uguthg||||10|KentYou have an interesting
pedegree.|
|1/3/05 02:13:46 PM|Angelo|DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|I agree with the
favorable comments about Larry Holmes. He was certainly the best heavyweight of
the late 70's and early 80's and it isn't even close. He dominated the division
for several years and took all comers. He won impressively and efficiently and
on top of it all, represented the sport very well. While he was on top of the
world, there was no nonsense from Holmes---he seemed genuinely grateful for the
wealth his skills brought to him and treated fans very well. He even staged a
title fight in Scranton, PA to give back to that community---because he had
fought there on his way up. In fact, the fight was at the Scranton Catholic
Youth Center, the same venue as when he was an up and coming kid. I think that
shows that Holmes was not spoiled by the fame. Sure he enjoys a great lifestyle
and all the goodies that come with being rich---but as Heavyweight Champion, he
didn't lose sight of what (and who) got him to the top. I think that Scranton
defense was against Lucien Rodriguez.|
|1/3/05 02:18:42 PM|Steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Hey Massimo,Here's some
New Jersey slang for you.The correct way to get a group of people to pay
attention is,"hey yoose guys"! When asking someone if they would care for
something to eat,you would say,"didjaeat",that's spoken as one
word.Or,"Jaeat",also spoken as one word.The adj.or pronoun {these},is pronounced
"dees".As in ,"dees guys over here". In the