January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

honestly, I never heard of Winky Wright ! My boxing knowledge has some holes
here and there ! I love the legend, Clay-Liston 1 ( I shook up the wordl ! ),
Ali'-Terrell (What's my name, sucker ?), Foreman-Frazier 1 (down goes Frazier
!), "Wilt scores !", "sky hook Kareem !", "Shaq dominates", "Benvenuti is
champion of the wordl !", "Hulk Hogan liftes Andre' the Midget in the air".
That's legend !Villaraigosa is the new sindaco of Los Angeles !I
hope he is gonna make a good job. I love Los Angeles, even if I have never been
there. Los Angeles owns a big part of my heart, below Pisa, Roma and all the
other Italian cities, Los Angeles is definitely my favorite. One day I will be
one of the many big fishes there and I will have my name written on that famous
pavement ! So I hope Villaraigosa is not going to hurt this town.|
|5/19/05 04:35:26 PM|forest ward|NYC||NYC||||10|Kent, not to stir up old
trouble. But,I was watching sports classics last night. Quarry-Frazier II. The
ring announcer announced the fight as "a heavyweight elimination match."|
|5/19/05 06:58:15 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|I know
Forest, that is why I thought it was an elimination match.What some of
the Frazier critics failed to recognize is the New York State Athletic Commision
had much more power and influence years ago than it does now.The
commision recognized a world heavyweight champion, along with several other
states and other countries that rivaled the WBA title and Frazier held that
title before unifying the title with his win over Ellis in 1970.Part of
the group that recognized Frazier before 1970 later became part of the
WBC.Yes, the NYSAC could have likely recognized a fight in 1974 as a
title elimination bout, something they couldn't do today. |
|5/20/05 01:50:57 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Kent:
Anyone can recognize a fight as an elimination bout, title fight, etc. Ring
Magazine, USA Today, WBC, WBA, IBF, NABF, ABC, NBC, Michael Jackson, you, me,
Forrest Ward, Liz Taylor---anybody can assert a rankings system, name a leader,
start a website and become "legitimate." It's the population of fans who either
reject it or lend validity. To a certain extent, I agree with you that the NY
State Commission was a big fish back then---I was a young kid back then and even
I knew about the commission and it's power. But with that said, calling
something an "elimination bout" is like the NABF having a title fight: What
does it mean exactly? In the late 70's, Mike Weaver was the NABF Champion. So
what? When he fought someone, it was just two guys fighting. The title meant
very little to me, it was just someone making something up. Likewise, an
"elimination" bout doesn't hold water with me if in my opinion, the participants
haven't both earned the right. As was said in the movie 48 Hours, "Just because
you say it with conviction, it don't mean (expletive) to me." |
|5/20/05 06:22:18 PM|Kent|Murreita, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|We should
have a top ten ranking of all of us who post here. Since there are probably ten
people who post here, everyone will be top ten!Here's my list: 1. The
Muffinman 2. Koo Koo Klock 3. Gerry S 4. Massimo 5. Fan 6. Noam 7. Forrest Ward
8. Jimmy Dorsey 9. Steve from New Jersey 10. AngeloI know I left several
people out but the list is subject to change|
|5/20/05 07:01:49 PM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|I'm top 5 stuff, cheers! Angelo is
the bummest in the list!Tonight I saw again the Clay-Moore 1962 fight,
Cassius completely dominated Archie. Although Archie was already 91 years old,
he had just fought to a draw with Willie Pastrano and beaten some good
heavyweight. Before the fight Clay said: Archie must fall in four... And
actually Archie fell in four! I wonder why every time they show this fight, the
rounds are not 3 minutes long as they should be... Why nobody does have the
entire fight ? It was a short fight, for God's sake !|
|5/21/05 06:51:27 AM|Massimo |Roma,Italia||Italia.com||||10|I was thinking,
about 10 percent of the guys who post on this site are Italians ! And if you
consider that Angelo is of Italian descent [his parents were from Palermo (
Palemmo in Sicilian Slang)] and that Steve has strong family ties ( ...and it