January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|10|Howard C.-Thanks for the very nice words !Mac Foster was one
hell of a fighter ! He was too slow to be called a champion, but, with that
power and those long arms he was not an easy pick for anyone. Nobody could step
into the ring against Mac Foster whistling, you had to be well trained and
focused on the fight. |
|3/15/05 08:14:09 AM|Fan|Fandom||Fan@Fandom.com||||10|I will say this. If
Frazier went in and tried to storm Foster early, which he would have, he might
not have made it to the middle rounds. The Foster that fought Quarry knocks out
Norton that night, that is not a question. Quarry took one hell of a shot,
that's the only reason he could come back to win.|
|3/15/05 09:32:49 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|No Howard I
don't think Mac Foster was a bum. In fact I think the Quarry win was a big one
for Jerry. I do think Foster was limited as a fighter especially as far as
mobility is concerned and hand speed as well, two key points that would make it
more difficult to nail Frazier if such a match up had occured. The key time
would be if Foster caught Joe in about the first two rounds and if Foster could
finish him if Joe was hurt. After this, when Joe was completely warmed up, I see
Joe swarming and overwhelming Foster much like Jerry did in the sixth round of
his fight with Foster.I still see the whole point about how Frazier
would have done against the other sluggers besides Foreman as not how Joe did in
that fight as Foreman was one of the best finishers and an all time great while
the others, being good fighters were not in big George's or Frazier's for that
matter, league.I also don't believe that a Frazier verses Foreman fight
always ends up so one sided in favor of Foreman. The key is Joe never hit him
with his best shots and Foreman could be hurt, as seen by his being hurt by Ali,
Lyle, and even Jimmy Young. Frazier did land one token left hook in the first
round before he was badly hurt by Foreman but in wasn't his best shot, the kind
that floored Ali, tore down Buster Mathis, dropped Ellis like a shot from a
high powered rifle, or tore up Jerry Quarry.Again the key to the
perception of how Frazier would have done against the fighters the critics say
he avoided is based on the image of seeing Frazier go down six times verses
Foreman and if the referee and/or Joe's corner had seen fit to properly stop the
fight, then the image in people's minds would be less severe. People would see
that Joe got caught and hurt early and he was never really in the fight, which
is what happened and they wouldn't image Joe as being as helpless as he
appeared.If I had been in Joe's corner, I would have stopped it at least
after the third knockdown or if I gave Joe a minute to recover between rounds,
at the absolute very most I would not have let him endure three more knockdowns
as one more with have been enough to verify Joe was in great danger.
What would have happened if Joe had somehow surived Foreman's early
attacks and he hit Foreman with his own power shots? It is quite possible that
the fight would have been much like the Foreman/Lyle brawl, a possible even
fight with both fighters hurt, hard to pick a winner but ending in a mid round
knockout. Now if it goes more than about seven rounds I would pick Frazier to
win this one because of his advantage in stanima. Of course the critics
argue that everything I am saying is hypothetical and while it is true we don't
know for sure if Joe would have beaten the fighters in question, we also don't
know if he would have lost to any of them.|
|3/15/05 01:09:21 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|I saw a film of
Ali vs. Mac Foster and Foster did really well. He lasted the full 15 and I
believe that loss was the highlight of his career. He was not a bum.|
|3/15/05 01:21:09 PM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Kent-Something strange I did
notice about Foreman is that his capacity of taking a punch did seem to improve
with age; I think Foreman 2 could take a punch better than Foreman 1, I don't
know why. He took some very good shots by Cooney, Moorer, Holyfield,Gunn etc.
and didn't go down, not even once. I wonder how Foreman 3 would take a punch,
maybe better than Chuvalo !!!!! Of course, I'm joking, I hope we are not going