January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

I'm fairly knowledgable about boxing and have called some fights when others
didn't (picked Ali over Foreman, Leonard over Hagler, Pryor over Arguello,
Hearns over Cuevas (not an upset, but many picked Pipino) so I'm not an idiot
fan. But I admit to thinking Ali, at under 220, had a legitimate chance against
Holmes---and the record shows that just cause you look like you can fight,
doesn't mean there's any fight left in you. Ditto for Tyson. I watched his
training for this bout, at least clips, and looked at his physique, and saw a
guy fighting heavy, but solid, well conditioned weight---and as you get older,
you get heavier, so I didn't think it would be a factor. Plus, I figured how
important would an extra few pounds be when the fight would end in two minutes.
Tyson, his camp and the media made a sucker out of me. I was taken for a ride,
like many others. The "new" Tyson training and attitude made me think he had
some juice left in him and could put together a few wins. Okay, I'm a dummy. I
forgot that the guy has looked ridiculous in the ring for the last 10 years,
biting and fouling cause he can't beat a decent fighter. Now, he can't beat a
presumably not so decent fighter (club type, like Williams or McBride), so again
he tries to foul his way to a win. Tyson is on empty. His punches didn't even
seem to have an affect on McBride, and that's shocking to me. I figured if
Tyson has anything left, at least he can score a surprise KO against a good
fighter. Well I learned (or I should say, I RE-learned) that he can't score a
surprise KO against an unranked opponent, so how in the world could could he
stun someone like Lennox Lewis? I honestly thought he'd KO Lennox Lewis. After
seeing him lose to Williams, I blamed it on the knee. I made excuses for him,
remembering the terror who ruled the division 15+ years ago. But put a fork in
him, he's done. |
|6/12/05 11:55:30 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Angelo-Thanks for the hat off
! I knew Tyson couldn't win, Mc Bride wears a shoe size 16, too much for Mike to
handle ! All jokes aside, what really impressed me was not the fact that Tyson
lost to Lennox Lewis (or Tyson losing to Lennox Lewis), but the way he lost.
Lennox literally played with him for almost the entire fight. I am very happy
that Tyson lost. Now he is not going to take other punches and he will enjoy
good health (or, at least, I hope so)for many years. Angelo, may you tell me
please what happened in the Mc Bride-Tyson fight in detail ? Did Mc Bride show
any skills ? I couldn't see the fight.Thanks.|
|6/12/05 01:20:24 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|My friend
bought the pay for view broadcast and he made a tape for me, which I just
finished watching.Tyson didn't look that bad until the sixth round. He
landed some hard body shots but didn't really connect with them to the head too
much and it still seemed at any moment he could put together a combination to
take McBride out of there. McBride also landed some hard shots but
mostly he clinched. One thing I did notice is every round, McBride
seemed to be connecting more, his game plan was to survive the early rounds and
come on in the later rounds.I had McBride ahead after six rounds by one
point as Tyson had a two point deduction for an intentional head butt, so Tyson
was actually winning the fight on points in actual boxing, wihtout the foul, the
judges scores were similar. Tyson at one point, when McBride started
landing more punches, tried to break McBride's arm like he did to Frans Botha
and this is when he also head butted McBride.Near the end of the sixth
and final round Tyson fell to the canvas, pushed down by McBride so it was a
slip not a knockdown. Tyson just sat there, not wanting to get up. I could tell
then that something was terribly wrong with him. But still him quitting
surprised me because how can someone quit in a close fight, one that was still
his to win?It is not that Tyson has no skills left, it is he has no
heart to deal with any kind of adversity in the ring. When an opponent doesn't
fall in a few minutes, he doesn't know what to do and apparently he never did
have the heart.Remember when James Quick Tillis went the distance with
Tyson before Tyson won the title? Tillis fought a defensive fight but counter