January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

up in Beverly Hills.... Was it? As far as Jerry holding his own with the "big
guys", Jerry thrived on that!!! Ask Mac Foster, Ron Lyle or Earnie Shavers among
others. Well I've said enough...Once again, GREAT to see the site againand
hope to get back again soon.Jerry, in my mind, You were The
Greatest!!!!Patrick J. Gibbons |
|6/9/05 09:07:57 AM|Massimo|Roma,USA||4||||10|Ken Norton couldn't care less
about Ali's psycological tacticts ! He gave Ali' hell for 3 fights ! On the
other hand Frazier suffered Ali's verbal attacks outside the ring, but didn't
let them affect his performances in the ring. I'm looking forward to see Ali-
Frazier 2 tonight on ESPN.|
|6/10/05 03:39:00 AM|Gino Mastroianni|San Leandro,
CA||gmast49@juno,com||||10|Patrick wrote:"By the way,the last I heard,
Bellflower could probably rank with most "mean streets" around the country. I
don't think Jerry's early background was growing up in Beverly Hills.... Was
it?"No, Patrick, Bellflower was a solidly blue collar town nearby the big
Firestone, Goodyear, US Steel and Bethlehem Steel plants operating at the
western edge of LA in the 40s and 50s when Jerry was coming up. Then it became
more and more Hispanic, as it is today. It was rough and tumble but never a
ghetto or a bi city barrio, and never even remotely comparable to Bed-Stuy or
Brownville in Brooklyn; South Bronx; Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan; Southwest DC;
Roxbury or Dorchester in Boston; South Side in Chicago; Tommy Hearns' Detroit;
or George Foreman's Fifth Ward in Houston -- or the gritty slums of Napoli or
Rome or Firenze or Turin, right, Massimo? To call Bellflower a place of "mean
streets" doesn't work at all. Not all great fighters need to psych
themselves up by having a baaad stare, either. How do you guys know whether
JQ or Ali or anybody else got into the heads of anyone else? Let's not mind-read
here, OK? Le's stick with what we actually know. Right, Massimo? We know Ali
riled up Frazier because of what Frazier did and said. DOES A FIGHTER REALLY
FIGHT BETTER MAD? I don't think so, not after a short surge of angry energy.
It;s much, much more important to be a smart fighter and to stay cool. That was
a major part of Evander Holyfield's strength: he could THINK and ADJUST while he
fought. Very few fighters can do that. Jerry Quarry wasn't very good at it,
either. He seemed to fight a lot of the time on raw emotion. Correct me if you
have real evidence. By the way, the southern part of Beverly Hills is now
full of gangbangers passing through. Los Angeles has 100,000 gang bangers. too.
Maybe not mean streets everywhere, but respectable. Still no comments on
Riddick Bowe. Could JQ have beaten him? Hell no. Bowe would take Jerry's shots
and laugh. Or most of them -- yeah, Jerry might have put him away, but I would
have bet on Bowe. |
|6/10/05 05:20:53 AM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Gino-From my personal
experience, Roma is not a particularly violent city. You only (or just) must be
carefully when there is an important soccer game (especially Roma-Lazio or Roma-
Juventus). All you have to do is staying away from the Stadium. A lot of people
go to the stadium with the purpose of kicking policemen's ass and so on. On the
other hand unfortunately Napoli is a pretty violent city: there are wars between
Camorra gangs, thieves everywhere, guys driving too fast and respecting no rules
etc. I would never live in Napoli. That's a real shame because (or as) without
those problems Napoli would be a really lovably city, with great food (pizza and
caffe' in particular), beautiful nature, the sea etc. I love (the) Napoletani
(they are Italiani like me) but I don't like their mentality. They don't like
working, they all believe in Horoscopies and San Gennaro and they are fatalist.
They believe in San Maradona also (or too). Firenze is one of the most beautiful
cities I have ever seen. The problem in Firenze is there are a lot of gays, so
you have to take care of your own ass.I don't know how many of you 230
millions Americans care about that, but that's the way I scored the second Ali'-
Frazier
bout.1)EVEN2)ALI'3)FRAZIER4)EVEN5)EVEN6)ALI'7)FR