January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

nonsensical arguments. Have fun anyways, whatever you want to call yourself.
Thanks, big ears (warm chortles).Boxing trivia: who was the tallest
opponent Joe Louis ever faced ?|
|8/4/05 10:56:35 PM|Steve|nj||na||||10|Massimo,I was just bragging about meeting
Emille Griffith.I used to always try to get tickets for the eighth row.It put
you enough above ringside,but still close enough to get a perfect view.{IF you
could see through the cigarette smoke.},He came down the walkway,which was
slanted downwards.I was sitting in the end seat.I just stood up and offered him
my hand and burbled some fan talk.He actually stopped for a second and shook my
hand.I couldn't judge his height.He did have on a perfectly tailored suit.He
looked as broad as a barn door.I asked if his suit was tailored in Italy.He then
punched me in the face,and screamed,{Italian tailors are worthless!}|
|8/4/05 11:49:33 PM|steve |nj||na||||10|Massimo,what dialect do you speak.Your
not from Naples,not a flourintine,do you speak the old Roman ?|
|8/5/05 12:00:40 AM|Howard C.|Louisville||howardc@louisville||||10|Having gone
back through the posts, Fan and Fandom are separate guys, as someone, I think
Angelo, said. Fandom tries to be fair. I agree with Noam that this other Fan guy
is the one who used to call himself Forrest. Fan only posts occasionally and
they are all bitter against Ali.Looking at it from Fan's (Forrest's)
point of view, I suppose he's just letting off steam. It is certain that he
hates Ali. No doubt about that if you go back and read the posts and the hatred
that steams through. I agree with Fan that Ali did wrong, but that was
40 years ago. Most everyone else has moved on. Fan hasn't. That tells me
something about him. The other telling thing is he only gives Ali brickbats,
never praise. All those awards and getting the hostages out overseas doesn't
mitigate anything, is how Fan would have it. Hating like Fan does isn't
constructive and clearly isn't doing him any good.Fan, can we break the
hatred down a bit ? Whose your 10 greatest heavies of all time, please
?Noam: I agree with Fan about what you said about Kent. You overreact
when Kent snipes at you. Just ignore it. I don't agree with much of what Kent
says about boxing, but as Steve tried to tell you, Kent is basically a decent
guy. I ran his name through a google search and he tries his hardest to do
community assists, even given donations. I overreacted with Kent, too, loosing
patience. I apologize Kent.The tallest guy Louis ever fought, in my
opinion, was Primo Carnero, to answer Noams question.|
|8/5/05 03:18:46 AM|Massimo |Roma,aho !||4||||10|Noam-I think the
wiltest guy Joe Louis ever fought was Buddy Baer. Buddy was at least 6'6", maybe
6'6" 1/2. Primo Carnera was at least 6'5", but probably 6'5" 3/4. Many people in
Italy still believe Primo was over 2.00 but this is what the fascist government
in the 30's used to say...I think it's b.s.Steve-Normally I
speak Standard Italian with no dialectal inflection. People usually can't
understand what part of Italy I come from. But when I get angry sometimes I use
the Roman dialect, aho! Anyway, the Roman dialect is very close to Standard
Italian, less beautiful than Standard Italian but funnier. Usually I understand
better the dialects in South Italy than those in North Italy. Lombardo, Veneto,
Friulano are hard. Fortunately they all can speak Standard Italian, but when
they speak in Lombardo or whatever it's quite a mess! |
|8/5/05 04:30:29 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Massimo - yep, you're right. Buddy
Baer, younger brother of Max, was 6', 6.5" tall. Now tell me, Massimo, when 10
Ton Galento fought Louis, what did he say that upset Joe so much ? And what
false allegation did promoter Jacobs make to promote the fight and sell more
tickets ?Howard - okay, if you say so. Kent, I'm sorry that I was
insulting. I accept you're an honest guy, but quit making the needling comments,
please. I regret what I said to you.Fan - if you believe I am
misinterpreting what you are accusing Ali of, then please spell it out for me.
I'm doing my best to translate what you mean. You keep linking Ali to guys that
killed a police officer. To me that means you are either accusing him of being