January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|5/29/05 12:24:23 AM|Gino M|San Leandro,
CALIFORNIA||gmast49@juno.com||||10|Maybe we pay too much attention to weight, or
how much weight of boxers has increased. I think most of them fight differently,
too, compared with the 60s or 50s. I think there was much more craft then, and
today there is a little too much emphasis on bulk and strength. Some people
enjoy boxing matches about power, bulk and strength, with the biggest possible
guys bludgeoning each other until one of them drops. That's OK but I prefer
matches decided by skill, speed, footwork, smarts and strategy. Maybe I'm not a
true heavyweight fan. JQ did have incredible power and he was strong, but what
impressed me more about him were his heart, boxing expertise, fundamentals and
aggressiveness, plus killer's instinct. I think we had better boxers, or
more good boxers, when guys really had to work their way up to being contenders,
with at least 20 or 30 fights. The way the promoters and the media work now, if
a new kid can be sold in big fights, they rush him into the Top Ten before he's
really ready. Did anyone say anything about "The Contender"? I don't like to
see young children watching their dads get walloped and bleeding. Sonia, did you
ever see Jerry fight when you were little? Great site as always. Hello to
Massimo!|
|5/29/05 12:36:49 AM|Gino|San Leandro||gmast49@juno.com||||10|Can anyone explain
why boxing or fighting in movies never looks the least bit realistic? You'd
think after so many years they'd get it right. John Wayne is the prime example,
and he was so slow you could have a beer before his next punch came. Like most
Hollywood fighters, he also telegraphed his punches. Jim Garner, Steve McQueen,
Bruce Willis -- all the same. The worst of all may be Sylvester Stallone, who
should know better after so much time spent in gyms. They fight like they
imagine the way good fighters would fight, but it's all haymakers, Sunday
punches, roundabout rights. (Massimo, these are slang terms for very slow,
deliberate, hard punches where the guy really loads up, or concentrates to put
all his strength into it -- as if the other guy would reall stand there and wait
for him to do it!Now on the plus side of actors who really can fight, I
guess Tony Danza is the best. The kid was a pro and he can really follow through
and wallop. Another guy who can fight, believe it or not, is Ryan O'Neal. He
could have been a decent pro. He used to train with Jose Torre. I'm sorry if
this is trivial, but fighting never improves in movies. The exception is karate
fighters and guys like Chuck Norris, but their fights are so one-sided they're
not much fun to watch. |
|5/29/05 01:02:21 AM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Gino, fights
on the big screen are the directors idea of will entertain the audience and they
are not meant to be realistic.Even Chuck Norris, a real life five time
world amatuer middleweight karate champion, I don't think he ever fought on the
pro circuit but he knows his stuff, has unrealistic fight scenes.Norris,
in his book talks about he taught Bruce Lee to kick high, which Lee used in his
movies. Lee, before he met Norris, thought high kicks were not effective for
street defense. I believe he was right but he wasn't above using them for his
fight scenes. |
|5/29/05 02:10:45 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Gino, can Harvey Keitel fight ? I've
been a fan of his since his film The Dirty Lieutenant. I've watched re-runs of
the Rockford Files and James Garner throws a nice punch. His offsider Angel
doesn't, though. Greg Brady hit Marsha in one episode I remember and that didn't
look staged. |
|5/29/05 02:19:43 AM|Massimo
|Roma||Salieriwasagreatcomposer@butMozartwasmuchbetter.it||||10|Hi Gino, guys
from California are always welcome !Are you really of Italian descent or
are you joking ? What's your name ?A bigger guy is supposed to have more
strenght, but this ain't always true: Bob Satterfield was about 170 lbs but
could punch like hell, much harder than "the bouncer" Mc Cline. Now I
was thinking of Vasilij Jirov, he used to be a flyweight just (or only) two