January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|3/12/02 09:37:35 AM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|SORRY GENTS: BUT I HAVETA WRITE IN
AGAIN,(SEE I'M BETWEEN ROOFING JOBS AND HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS)I ARGUED
WITH A FIGHT BUDDY OF MINE ABOUT YESTERDAYS HEAVYWEIGHTS COMPARED TO TODAY. HE
SAID TUA WOULD TAKE CARE OF BONAVENA IN 2 ROUNDS, THEY ARE BIGGER TRAINED
BETTER, SHARPER ETC.AND YU KNOW HE MAY WELL BE RIGHT THE BIGGEST GUY JERRY EVER
FOUGHT WAS BUSTER MATHIS 238 1/2LBS.STANFORD HARRIS 233 1/2.FINALS IN KC I THINK
THE GUY WENT 238. (JQ ENDED HIS CAREER). I KNOW ONE THING THAT YESTERDAYS HAD
BETTER-HEART.NOBODY QUIT,(APOLOGIES DURAN-LEONARD).AKINWANDE GETTIN HIS
8$MILLION DOLLAR PURSE QUIT AGAINST LEWIS,( I THOUGHT REFEREE MILLS LANE SHOULD
HAVE HIT HIM)McCALL CRYBABY THING. HOWEVER DID YU SEE TIM WITHERSPOON.|
|3/13/02 12:11:51 AM|Kent Appel|La Habra Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|It is
funny how people think just size rules over skill. It is ironic that David Tua
is used as an example of the better fighters of today. In his last major fight
Tua was handily outpointed by 213 pound Chris Byrd, a fighter similar to Jimmy
Young in style. Tua with about a 22 pound weight advantage got his ears boxed
off by Byrd and I believe Young would have done the same thing to him. Not to
mention what Muhammed Ali would have done to the "Pineapple Head." Both Byrd
and Young are not hard punchers and I think Jerry would have possibly kayoed
Tua, probably in the later rounds. Tua is strong and he has a dangerous left
hook but little else. Joe Louis in his prime knocked out the following fighters
when he was giving away over 50 pounds to his opponenets in some of these cases:
Buddy Baer, Abe Simon, Primo Carnera, Tony Galento, and Max Baer all made Louis
look small at about 200 pounds and out of these fighters; B. Baer, Simon, and
Carnera all were above 6'5" in height and they were no match for the better
skilled Louis. Jack Dempsey also destroyed much larger fighters like Luis Firpo
and Jess Willard, so size alone doesn't guarantee victory. Out of today's larger
fighters; only Lennox Lewis, and maybe the Klitscko Brothers seem to show any
kind of boxing skill that would trouble the oldtimers. Because without the
skill, they would not have a chance against the all time greats. But all of
these fighters have question marks that need to be answered in order to include
them among the greats. Lennox has a questionable chin and the Klitsckos have
both shown not to respond too well when things are not going their way.
Wladimir K. fell from exhaustion in a later round when journeyman Ross Purrity
didn't fall from from an early beating and Vitaly K. quit on his stool due to
arm injury while he was ahead of Chris Byrd on the scorecards. I am not
doubting that Vitaly K. was injured but an old timer would have fought one
handed for a couple rounds and end up winning a decision rather than give in to
defeat (I realize that Sonny Liston did the same thing in the first Ali fight-I
am talking about oldtimers in general). |
|3/13/02 06:37:38 AM|Evren|London||Evren@btinternet.com||||10|Kent..thankyou ! I
could not agree more - are todays heavyweights bigger or fatter ! Overmuscled. I
think alot of the old fighters were better because of there active records and
superior competition. Todays fighters will face 30 opponents who are poor and
then challenge for the title - lose - have another few fights against poor
opposition and then lose again when they fight a top class opponent. Look at the
last 40 year - best heayweights - Ali - 205-225lbs - Frazier - 200 - 215lbs -
Foreman - 210 - 225lbs (prime) - Holmes - 206-220 lbs (prime) Mike Tyson - 216 -
224 lbs - Holyfield - 202-218 lbs - They have been the best - the only
exceptions are Lewis and Bowe who were better when they were around the 220-230
lb mark....'nuff said !!!!!!!|
|3/16/02 01:56:53 PM|George L . Otto|Youngstown,
Ohio||ehnpbsa@aol.com||||10|AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF BOXING,
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