January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

much alcool when he was a teenager. I saw his fight for the gold medal in the
1968 Olimpics and he was already very impressive.|
|2/10/06 10:04:14 AM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Massimo, yes
Wilt was Wilt and he was great and yes I don't doubt he could make love to ten
woman, score 70 points in a professional basketball game but we all know what a
specialized skill boxing is and it takes years to learn this
craft.Roger, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was also a very gifted basketball
player and while he wasn't as physically strong as Wilt Chamberlain, he was
actually a student of Bruce Lee in the martial arts and he was of course much
bigger than Lee.But by all accounts when the Lee and Jabbar would spar
Lee got the better of Kareem because Lee had practiced his art his whole life,
he was the master and Kareem was the novice. The same thing applies to
Ali and Chamberlain with Ali being the master and Chamberlain being the novice
and the size difference between Wilt and Ali was much smaller than the
difference between Lee and Jabbar.By the way, Bruce Lee weighed at the
most about 140 pounds.|
|2/10/06 10:17:22 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron||||10|Any top-25
heavyweight and possibly even any top 100 heavyweight would dismantle Wilt
without too much trouble. Honestly, I don't think it would even be that
difficult. First, it's about defense. I think Wilt would have a hard time
landing punches without opening himself up to be thrashed. He'd wind up to
throw a hard punch and get hit about three to five times by a quick heavyweight
like Ali or he'd get clocked with one hard shot by someone like Frazier or
Foreman. Believe me, even a shorter guy like Frazier would find a way inside.
Sure, Wilt could use his reach to pepper a smaller guy with jabs, but Frazier
would bore in, take a few to give a few and start to take Wilt apart. Ali's
tactics would be prettier, with more showmanship. I don't think Wilt would ever
lay leather on an in-prime Ali. Ali would stay outside and hit him with a
variety of lighter punches but the cumulative affect would still end with a KO
or TKO. Conversely, one giant hook from Frazier, and it would be, "timber" for
Wilt. |
|2/10/06 11:40:01 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|All jokes apart, I think that Frazier
would dismantle Wilt inside 4 rounds, Foreman would destroy him in 1 and Ali'
would win on points or on a late kot. Frazier and Foreman would have an easier
time with Wilt than Ali' because they were hard punchers. An in prime Mike Tyson
would have destroyed Wilt with a quick body-head combination.Wilt against
Ernie "Wrong name" Terrell would have been interesting, but I would bet on
Terrell. Anyway, who knows if Wilt could take a punch ? I personally wouldn't be
wilt enough to land a punch on Wilt's face!|
|2/10/06 12:26:11 PM|max hord|fernandina bch,fla||maxhord@adelphia.net||||10|Are
you guys trying to say that wilt, walking off the court could do all these
things to a professional fighter of the 70's ? The guys you are talking about
learned HOW to fight from early on.Without training like they did he wouldn't
stand a chance in hell against any professional fighter.Butterbean would kick
his ass.|
|2/10/06 01:00:45 PM|Roger|Illinois||brm48@hotmail.com||||8|Chamberlain would
have had a tougher time fighting either Joe Frazier or Tyson than he would of
Ali. None of us can say for sure who would have won. My only question is , why
did Ali refuse to fight Chamberlain? It would have been a great gate and all of
us agree that Ali loved money. Chamberlain all but got down on his knees to get
Ali to sign for a fight. I agree that it would not be that easy for a person to
go from one sport to another (ask Michael Jordan), but Chamberlain was a very
special athlete. I certainly do not want to offend anyone and state that the
years of training that these great fighters put in would not make a great
difference, but my question still remains. Oh, by the way I have been on a lot
of sports websites and I appreciate the calm and intelligent manner of the
people on this site.|