January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Clay-Liston II Lewiston Maine|
|8/16/05 10:12:34 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Fandom - you are wrong and right.
Very good try, though. Answers:1) The first American champion was Paddy
Duffy in 1888.2)Bob Fitzsimons was the oldest light-heavyweight of all
time at 40 years, 5 months, and 30 days.3)The smallest attendance at a
heavyweight title fight was in 1965 between Ali and Liston (2) at Maine - only
2,434 were there.More trivia ? Okay.A) What do Henry Arnstrong,
Bernard Hopkins, Benny Leonard, 'Bonecrusher' Smith, and Mike Weaver all have in
common ?B) Who holds the longest title reign in the lightweight division
?C) Who was the first black referee in a world title bout ? |
|8/17/05 12:30:05 AM|steve |nj||na||||10|Hi Noam,who was the inept referee who
couldn't pull Emile Griffith off Benie{kid}Paret,while Griffith beat him to
death in a corner? Who was the inept ref.who didn't stop the second Quarry vs
Frazier fight untill Jerry was bleeding to death from cuts?|
|8/17/05 01:50:46 AM|Ed|Cicero N Y||mooseygoop@aol.com||||10|Steve, I dont know
the name of the ref that did the fatal Griffith/Paret fight but one thing I
recently learned is that Parets fatal injuries were most likely inflicted in his
previous fight with Gene Fulmer. People that seen it said he got the worst
beating in a fight they ever seen. Paret was rushed into a fight with Griffith
just for the money.Trivia question....who was the only fighter to cut
Ali in a fight????|
|8/17/05 02:12:56 AM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Ed-Bob Foster was the only
fighter to cut Ali' in a fight.|
|8/17/05 02:16:40 AM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Noam-Are you sure about
Fitzsimmons ? Archie Moore was 91 when he defeated Yvone Durelle for the second
time in 1959 for the light-heavyweight title.|
|8/17/05 02:37:03 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Ed - thanks for the trivia. I didn't
know that Bob Foster was the only man to cut Ali. Ali had a rounded face and was
hard to cut.Massimo - your sense of humour keeps getting better. You
bring a lot to the table ! Max Baer junior played Jethro Bodin !!!!Steve
- I'll try and find the name of the referee. But I can give you some trivia from
the Benny Paret v Griffith fight in 1962. After the fight they increased the
number of ropes from 3 to 4 because Paret got caught in the 3 ropes. I would
have thought 4 ropes would be more easily to tangle, but there you go. |
|8/17/05 03:22:33 AM|Fan|Fandom||Fan@Fandom.com||||10|Archie Moore was 47 when
defended the title against Guilio Rinaldi. In common- Lost their
debutFirst Black- Jack Johnson|
|8/17/05 05:08:08 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Fandom - you're doing very
impressively ! You've got another one right. I think you and Massimo are the
best students - the Gene Tunney - of boxing on this site. The answers:1)
All those guys have one thing in common - they all lost their first professional
fights. 2) Roberto Duran (who I'd have in the Top 10 pound-for-pound of
all time) held the lightweight title for 6 years and 7 months - the longest
reign.3) Zack Clayton was the first black referee in the Jersey Joe
Walcott v Ezzard Charles fight on June 5, 1952.I have over trivia
questions, but I won't post them if I'm annoying anyone doing it.|
|8/17/05 07:24:43 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Did Ali
bleed from the mouth in the Holmes fight? Would this count as a cut the same
way a facial cut would?I see that NY suspended Holyfield's license to fight
and now they're trying to line something up in Europe for Holyfield. Massimo,
please stop them! This is getting ridiculous. I remember when Holyfield beat
Tyson---he was really credible and a legitimate Champion. He was fairly well
spoken, well liked and a good guy. His earnings were spectacular. EVERYONE
said that he would know the right time to quit---and he'd stay around boxing as
a commentator, trainer, etc. Well, instead, he's 42 years old, I believe has
won twice in his last nine fights, and continues to get in the ring. This one
is hard to figure out. He could have walked away with loads of money, body