January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

points almost as if on demand.Wilt led the lead in some catagory for
every full year of his career. The only year he didn't lead in some catagory is
when he broke his leg early in a season and he only played about 25
games.Even in the years when he wasn't scoring a lot he still led in
things like field goal percentage, rebounding, and even one year he led in
assists.|
|2/23/06 07:56:32 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron||||10|Frank:
Coatsville....wasn't there a lighter weight guy in the 80's from your town named
Calvin Grove? I remember seeing him on ESPN a couple times. I don't know what
ever happened to him. He might have been weltherweight???? |
|2/24/06 12:02:59 AM|D. Quayle|Home|| - ||||10| Let's limit the spelting
corrections to easy words like potatoe.|
|2/24/06 02:34:22 AM|Jimmy Young|Jayhawker||.||||10|I am the greatest of all
time. I was robbed against Ali, I beat Foreman easily, and I whooped Frazier in
sparring.|
|2/24/06 04:15:16 AM|Massimo|Roma||www.Iswear.com||||10|Tonight I dreamed I
played in the same team as Wilt Chamberlain. I could do anything I wanted and
overcome any difficulty with him spuring (thanks dictionary) me ! What a strange
dream !|
|2/24/06 02:50:03 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron||||10|jayhawker---Jimmy
Young might not have been the greatest, but he sure did a good impersonation of
it a few times! He whipped Foreman convincingly, as you said, and did a great
job against Ali too, and Norton. I never heard about him sparring well against
Frazier, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least. Frazier never fought anyone
with Young's style. |
|2/24/06 03:03:23 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Jimmy Young
was a very good fighter but if he got the best of Frazier in sparring, it was
probably towards the end of Joe's career as I don't believe Jimmy was ready to
do battle with Joe before about 1975.Jimmy didn't fully live up to his
potential until then as he had a lot of losses before that point.Jimmy
didn't have a long prime as he also was beaten a lot of times after his prime
but when he was a his best, he was very good.|
|2/24/06 05:03:54 PM|Anonymous|USA||Msn||||10|I had heard that Frazier KO'd
Norton repeatedly in sparring, and that he broke Holmes' ribs, but I never knew
he sparred against Jimmy Young. Jimmy was very clever. I think he'd have given
Frazier a tough fight.|
|2/25/06 09:01:55 AM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Add on to
Jimmy Young, I think the problem with Jimmy later in his career is he tried to
get in and punch more, he went away from his style because people had critised
his stick and move style and it cost him.The exception was his fight
with Gerry Cooney and because even though Young was past his prime, for almost
four rounds he kept Cooney off stride.I remember thinking about Cooney,
"this is the guy the are making so much fuss about?But then Cooney
caught up to Young and he opened up a big cut above Young's eyes and the fight
was stopped on cuts for a TKO win for Cooney.I based the fact that an
over the hill Young had boxed circles around Cooney until Cooney caught him and
if Young could out box him for even a few rounds, an in prime Larry Holmes would
be able to take Cooney.Thanks to Jimmy Young, I was able to win some
money betting on Holmes to beat Cooney.|
|2/25/06 05:16:20 PM|Bob Bumbera|NC||renfbera@aol.com||||10|I just read that
Greg Page is near death in a Louisville hospital. Suffering from seizures,
hypothermia, and respiratory failure. I saw an interview with him a few years
ago and he was out of his mind. The recent fight between Scott Pemberton and
Peter Manfredo, after viewing the interview with Pemberton, I wondered how a
commission would grant him a license to fight. He would lose his train of
thought mid-sentence. I am afraid Mesi may end up this way as well; he is
really not that good. He should walk away with what he has and call it a day.