January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

the effect that you don't get information about boxers from books. To state the
obvious, Forest, that's okay when you are able to observe your contemporaries,
however for boxers who fought before you were born, books are the best source of
information. There's nothing wrong with books. Reading is good.Regards
Marciano. Tapes are a good source of information, too. May I suggest, Forest,
that you view the LaStarza, Louis, Walcott, Charles, and Moore fights. They are
among Rocky's most famous. He was a head puncher in those fights. Rarely did he
go to the body in them.Forest you mentioned Bin Laden. That is silly and
disrespectful. You can rant and rave and insult people here as much as you like,
and personally it doesn't worry me because people are seeing you in your true
light, but trivializing past atrocities by introducing Bin Laden's name is awful
(especially after what's just happened in London). Try not to do it
again.Anyway, I answered your questions, apparently in a manner to which
you are unable to respond with reason or logic or at all. I demolished your
contention that Frazier had "smart management". So you ignored my response and
moved onto some other nonsense.For you to say that Frazier had "smart
management", when they let him fight with diminished eye sight and cataracts,
gives us all a sneak preview into how little you really know. And the more you
post, the less you are able to cover your ignorance up.Answer a
question. If you had a magic wand, Forest, would you wave it and take back all
the silly, ignorant, and puerile comments you have posted here ?|
|7/7/05 06:31:57 PM|Sabrina Quarry-
Porter|Florida||SabrinaLPorter@aol.com||||10|I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HIM WITH A
SMILE.HE IS MY DAD AND I MISS HIM WITH ALL MY HEART.I LOVE YOU ALWAYS IN MY
HEART DAD..FROM DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL|
|7/7/05 08:09:34 PM|Angelo|DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Sabrina: We miss your
Dad too. Somewhere, he's looking down and smiling. |
|7/8/05 02:51:57 AM|Howard C.|Louisville||howardc@louisville||||10|NoamI
enjoyed reading your comments about Marciano. You've been fair with what you've
written. Don't listen to the ratbag and keep up the good work. No one ever built
a monument to a critic. |
|7/8/05 06:21:16 AM|Angelo|DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|It's true---if you watch
old Marciano footage, he's a head hunter. I think the notion that he was some
great body puncher started because he's a shorter heavyweight in the "white
palooka" mold---come forward, lean in, bang to the body. But if you watch his
great fights, he seems to look for a KO by going to the head. Granted, I
haven't watched every round of every fight and maybe the highlights I've seen
show the end of his fights, not the middle. On the Frazier camp vs. the Ali
camp: The best things I can say about Frazier are that he beat Ali once and
beat Quarry twice---two times when Quarry was at good points in his career. The
best things I can say about Ali, in terms of winning the title three times and
the competition he took on, so far exceeds Frazier's performances, it's not even
interesting to go on and on about. Suffice to say, Ali's ring accomplishments
dwarf Frazier's---it ain't close. I'd wave Forrest's "magic wand" over every
boxer ever permanently injured, over Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Chris Chandler,
Al Toon (former Jets receiver whose eyes are probably STILL sensetive to light
due to concussions) and hell, if the wand works on knees, I'd wave it on Namath
and Gale Sayers (and even Jim Otto, who played for the Raiders while I'm a
Chiefs fan). Yes Forrest, we can all agree that restoring health and quality of
life to our fallen boxing heroes is a nobel idea and I'd do it. The fact
remains, smart management or not: Ali's career and ring victories give him more
than an "edge" over Frazier---it's more like an avalanche. And in hindsight, it
starts with the fact that Ali took on all those guys we've talked about that
Frazier didn't fight---but curiously, it ends with the fact that as a shot
fighter, Ali picked on Trevor Berbick---certainly, Berbick was no Joe Louis, but
let's just say he brought more to the table than Jumbo Cummings. |
|7/8/05 07:49:52 AM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Fan-How many Marciano's