January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

obustness of a boxer's chin. If the rest of his body is not handling the stress
as well, as might happen if the boxer stopped taking steroids, then
psychologically it defeats him as well.If steroids, or the lack of them,
was Jones's problem, then I suppose this might explain it. |
|8/21/05 05:29:42 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|I have just discovered that when
Frazier fought Foreman in 1973, George was the n.1 contender. Joe deserves
credit for that! He didn't take the easy way that time ( he did it when he
fought Terry Daniels and Ron Stander). I wonder what did Foreman do to be the
n.1 contender. The only big names in his record were George Chuvalo and Gregorio
Peralta.|
|8/21/05 06:08:24 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Massimo - Frazier thought the first
fight with Foreman was going to be a walk in the park ! George wasn't given a
snowflakes chance in hell in that fight and Joe was the heavy favourite. Just
goes to show that you can never guess outcomes, especially when big punchers
like Foreman, and even Lyle and Shavers are involved.And Massimo, what's
Tyson up to over there. Any more reports about him ? Things seemed to have gone
quiet around him.|
|8/21/05 06:59:27 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|I don't know much about Tyson's
holyday in Italia. I read a very small article in a newspaper 2 or 3 days ago in
which there was reported that Tyson is now in Sardegna (I have never been there)
and that is behaviour was not good. In particular he was frightening people
(around) by driving a motor cycle into the sea too close to the beach (where the
water's level is not high enough). Of course, this is not a small (or little)
fault, this behaviour can be very dangerous.|
|8/21/05 08:22:42 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Massimo - it's time you went down
there and straightened Mike out !By the way, when you look at the cold
hard facts of Jerry's career, it is nearly mind blowing the calibre of guys he
fought.....Ali x 2, Frazier x 2, Norton, Shavers, Lyle, Mac Foster, Chuvalo,
Mathis, Ellis, Patterson x 2.Jerry posted wins over Patterson, Mathis,
Mac Foster (Quarry was the only guy to stop him), Lyle, and Shavers. He
certainly didn't retire wondering what might have been.|
|8/22/05 11:42:04 AM|Pete|Cleveland||N/A||||10|I have been on and off this site
for a number of years. I always found it interesting. But now it is like a
desert. It's so dry and vapid. What happenned. Did all the oldtimers die off?|
|8/22/05 02:58:44 PM|Fan|Fandom||Fan@Fandom.com||||10|Many regular posters have
left recently including Kent and Forest Ward.|
|8/22/05 03:04:01 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Noam: It's
like my old analogy about college football. If you play an easy schedule and
finish 11-0, the whole world will bicker about the fact that had you played in
the Big 10, Pac 10, etc., you'd have had 3 or 4 losses. Ditto for a boxer who
plays it close to the belt. "What might have been" is viewed as a negative by
people like you and I, and written off by others. Sorry, I can't write it off.
To me, if the big hitters are left off your schedule, I deduct a point. If
you're an olympic skater and you skate a relatively easy program and don't make
any mistakes, that doesn't cut it. I'd give more credit to the skater who tries
the impossible jumps, makes most of them---even if they miss one. It's called
accepting the challenge. The greats accept challenges.|
|8/22/05 04:18:19 PM|Italian Stallion|Philly||Unknown||||10|Rest in peace Ella.
You will not be forgotten here.|
|8/22/05 05:08:48 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|I agree Angelo. That's why I
mentioned Quarry's career and the fact that he fought nearly all the big names
of his era and even doubled up on some. The only big names he missed fighting
were Liston and Foreman. Given that he fought everyone else, he couldn't fit
these guys in and there was certainly no pattern there as there was with
others.The other thing with Quarry is that as a challenger he really
wasn't in a position to pick and chose. He had less influence. He fought matches
when they were available, usually picked by others. Whereas, a champion CAN pick