January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

you use the big word in context, it doesn't matter, unless someone doesn't
understand the meaning, misinterpretes it, and then you're in trouble. Like I
was. The heavyweight division is very boring over recent years. It's
very hard to get interested in it. It's like, who cares, who even knows their
names, who could be bothered about them. Apart from Toney, none are colourful,
none capture your attention. It's hard to like them or hate them. They're all
just neutral, uninteresting, lowly talented, overpaid, underachieving type of
guys. If Joe Bugner was fighting today, he'd be an excitement machine,
comparative to the others. Heck, wrestling is more exciting than the current
bunch. |
|2/21/06 05:25:10 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron||||10|Noam: The division
is in a sorry state, when someone like Ruiz can hold a title and be relavant for
so long. The Klitschos are a curiousity at best. Toney isn't a legitimate
heavyweight. Holyfield has become a liability for the sport. So has Bowe. Tyson
represents unfulfilled potential and is too old to matter now. Geez, I never
thought I'd long for the days of Lennox Lewis---I considered him boring and
vulnerable---but he's looking like a great champion now. I do hope some good
young talent is on the horizon. |
|2/21/06 06:32:45 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Angelo, I think the last time I was
looking forward to a heavyweight fight and was excited at the propect of it was
Holyfield v Tyson. That's a long time ago. The guys today I don't know their
names or, if I do, I can't spell it because I'm not interested in reading about
them. It's a shameful mess. Where are all the heavyweight prospects ? Jail ?
Playing other sports ? |
|2/21/06 06:39:37 PM|steve |NJ||NA||||10|Noam and Angelo,your both on the
mark.There doesn't seem to be the kind of electricity that I remember when
Tyson's face was on the cover of Sports Illustrated back in the eighties.I
thought,for a short time,and even tried to talk him up,that Samuel Peters was
the second coming.Guess I was wrong about that one.|
|2/22/06 02:21:50 AM|Ed|Cicero N Y||mooseygoop@aol.com||||10|Looks like Joe
Mesi is going to be fighting again. I personally hate to see
it.http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2334408|
|2/22/06 04:01:09 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|I must admit I don't know for sure
who the heavyweight champions are. Nicola Valuev is one of them and then ? Is
Chris Byrd champion ? I don't remember. Is Kent's brother Giacomo Toney champion
? Idem, I don't remember. There are too many weight divisions and belts, people
get confused. The last exciting fight I saw was Toney-Holyfield. I think Nicola
Valuev brought back some interest in the division by beating Giovanni Ruiz. I'm
curious to see what the big fella can do. After all, he is not that much
andreer* than Wilt!* "andreer" means shorter in Cinian slang!|
|2/22/06 08:05:17 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron||||10|Valuev managed the
win over Ruiz---kudos for that. Many of the East Bloc heavies seem to be huge
and physically gifted, but in a bizarre way, they are like characteritures (is
that spelled right) or poor parodies of the big Russian from Rocky IV---they
seem robotic and lacking heart and street smarts. The rebuttal to that should
have been Andrew Golata, who gave two amazing performances agasint Bowe, who was
one of the best heavies of his time. Golata's fouls spoiled everything, but he
fought with heart and purpose. I thought he was going to use those fights as a
springboard. I was excited about Golata-Lewis, but we all know how that ended.
I would take a smaller street smart guy like Jimmy Young over a seven foot tall,
300 pound solid Russian with all these great talents---when the bell rings,
sometimes these physical advantages don't mean as much with heavyweights. |
|2/22/06 02:33:09 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Massimo - if you look back at the
title holders in the 1970s, you see that there is only one champion in every
division. There's none of this alphabet title stuff. You also notice
that there is only 7 or 8 weight divisions instead of the 15 plus we have now.
You only had middleweight then. No super middleweight. Same with bantamweight,