January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

They were lithe and fit and conditioned to combat. I recently watched a bout
between Zora Folley and Henry Cooper and both guys were in supreme condition.
They were between 185(Cooper) to 205lb(Folley)roughly and both looked great. |
|3/12/03 08:08:42 PM|Forest ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|Mike
Stevens, pardon my language, but Max Kellerman no jackS..t about boxing.He
actually picked Ruiz to win the fight. The only person who knows less about
boxing is Mike Katz a broken down ex-sports writer, who peddles his garbage on
the internet.|
|3/13/03 12:29:23 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Forest, I hate
to admit it but I too picked Ruiz to win. The reason I thought so was because I
expected Ruiz to use his weight to his advantage by roughing him up agaisnt the
ropes and wearing him down. But in the actual fight, every time he got Jones
cornered, he let him move to keep the fight in the center of the ring. The
referee did break the figthers quickly but Ruiz never once tried to force Jones
back into the ropes. So Ruiz's excuse that the ref. didn't let him fight his
fight doesn't hold water. In hindsight, I see that even if Ruiz had kept the
fight away from the center of the ring, he probably still would have lost a
decision but he would have made a better account of himself. One of the aspects
that led to the downfall of Ruiz agaisnt Jones was mental. Ruiz didn't have his
uaual fire because he has been hit with hard punches before but he always fought
back hard. Against Jones, he didn't do this.|
|3/13/03 07:08:15 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|ON MAX KELLERMAN:
Max Kellerman is what I call a "flavor of the week" kind of thinker. Whomever
happens to be on top of the heap at the point in time he is asked a question is
automatically the all-time greatest in his mind. He lacks the capacity to look
at the overall picture in the context of time and is far too impressed by size
and phsique. He proves that just knowing alot of facts is not enough to draw
correct conclusions. Toughness is not something you can measure or weigh -- it
has to be seen by experienced eyes to appreciate.But I do like Max and he gave
boxing announcing a breath of fresh, young air. And I admire his obvious love
of the sport. Too many sports casters cover boxing with apologies.|
|3/13/03 02:37:17 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||ronnyrains@yahoo.com||||10|Old Maxie pad,HOW DID THEY EVER LET HIM
DO BOXING??I haven't cared for his opinion ever, kinda a young classless
"HOWARD".TALK About being overpaid!!?HE'll Never be a "stooge".Maybe a
clown!?FOREST Ward, yes i remember,NICK WELLS and that he would have been U.S.A
Olimpic heavy, had he either lost a lousy decision, or was unjustly DQ'ued
Against Duane Bobick in 72'.Iknow he had Bobick on they canvas a few times,But
how about a personal favorite,WOODY CLARK,now ther was a gutsy kid who lacked
size and a punch,that was on tv every week taking on everyone, from Page to
Stevenson, all the Russians,etc.and so on!|
|3/13/03 03:07:04 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|EVERN: You asked
about tapes of Liston-Foreman sparring. I am told collector Kurt Noltimier has
those tapes.|
|3/13/03 04:38:08 PM|Bob Bumbera|NC||renfbera||||10|Don't get me wrong about
Kellerman. I agree with John on this one. He's young and really has a passion
for the sport. Boxing needs more young people to support it. As far as
Marciano, I think there are few athletes in history who did as much with so
little. I think he knew himself very well. He knew with his limited physical
abilities he might not be able to beat a guy to the punch, he just had to out
punch him. That's where his intense devotion to training came into play. He
trained himself to work harder than anybody else and he knew he could go the
distance and still be fresh. I also think his punching power is a little over
rated. Foreman, Dempsey and Louis, (from what I've seen on film and TV.), were
much harder punchers. And his defense was vastly underrated. He was an extremly
smart fighter that knew how to set traps. I'll always rate him high on my all-
time list. |