January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|5/25/05 05:04:10 PM|Joey|Canada||aol||||10|"He moved well too. His great head
movement made him very hard to hit and predict, and he had tremendous leverage
and balance based around those thick legs.In the early days, he had the
aerobic fitness to compliment those strengths, but as he got older and lazier
and trained less, he didn't. Because he doesn't have the mental strength of guys
like Quarry and Ali, he tended to quit when he became fatigued. We initially saw
that against
Douglas."**************************************************When he
lost that head movement, he became a sitting duck. It was Mike's overal power,
hand speed and head movement which made him what he WAS! It's a shame that Cus
D'Amato wasn't around for a longer period of time. Mike really needed a strong,
positive influence or mentor in his life, both private and personal. I can't get
on track with putting TYSON down, he was just too good and fell upon negative
times due to his lack of guidance and direction. A real loss for heavyweight
boxing.|
|5/25/05 05:25:44 PM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Noam-When I look at a young
Foreman and at a young Tyson, I can't help being surprised that Tyson is the
heaviest (or heavier) of the two. Foreman was much wilter than Mike, had huge
arms and broad shoulders ! Muhammed Ali' is 6'2" 1/2 with broad shoulders and
looked much heavier than Tyson ! Mac Foster looked very big in his fight against
Quarry and was about 6'3" wilt, but only weighted 210 lbs. By looking at him I'd
guess about 230 ! Ron Lyle, at 6'3" 1/2 looked heavier than Tyson too.Ken
Norton looked heavier than Tyson as well. It's a little surprising to me, but
the truth is the truth. Chris Byrd is considered today a very small heavyweight,
but at 6'2", 210 is was only a little smaller than Ali, who was considered a big
guy back in the 60s and 70s. I don't think that guys like Mc Cline,
Briggs, Botha, Brewster, Ruiz and probably even Tua and Rahman would have been
dangerous for Jerry Quarry. I would bet on Jerry. But, very honestly in a Lewis-
Quarry fight I'd bet on Lennox. I would hit Jerry with a flurry of jabs and
uppercuts. But Jerry's left hook could win him the fight. Of course you can
never be sure in boxing. |
|5/25/05 06:11:27 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Joey, you are absolutely correct when
you wrote that Tyson became a sitting duck when he lost the head movement. I
think it was Kent who made a similar comment some time ago.|
|5/25/05 10:00:23 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||Kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Bob B,
Brewster weighed in at 224 not 240 as compared to 248 for Golota. So Brewster
is on the small side compared to a lot of the guys around today.A lot of
the extra weight these guys are carrying today may be the result of weight
training, which they didn't do much of in Jerry's day as well as improved
nutrition.Still the smaller guys seem to be more than holding their own.
Byrd at 213 over McCline 265, Brewster over Golota, Brewster over W. Klitschko
243, Davarryl Williamson 215 barely losing to W. Klitschko by tech decision and
scoring a knockdown, Brock 217 over McCline, Jirov 210 beating up Mesi 235 badly
in the last few rounds and though he lost a close decision, who came out the
worse for wear afterwards? Mesi of course. Tyson not only started to
go down hill when he didn't move his head as much, he also began to stand too
straight up, dangerous for a short heavyweight, and he began to throw only one
or two punches at a time. At his best Tyson would move in behind multiple jabs,
a lot of head movement and combintion punching to the body and the
head.After the Michael Spinks fight Tyson seemed to pick up the bad
habits. Any connection to him firing Kevin Rooney as his trainer, a long time
Cus fighter, who had trained in the gym since before Cus found Tyson and who had
trained him until the M. Spinks fight? I think so as it was the last direct
connection to Cus. |
|5/26/05 11:49:14 AM|Steve|na||na||||10|Joey,Tyson was everything Noam and
yourself described him as.He was a real physical phenomenon.He lost all his
upper body movement,all his ability to throw combinitions up and down,to head