January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

the judges weren't bought by King, who viewed Foreman as a bigger money maker
and more intruiquing opponent. Let's face it: Young was never a one-punch KO
artist. He couldn't hit someone with one punch and turn the tide of a fight the
way Foreman or other big heavies could. He needed to count on defense and
reflexes and for a two year period in the mid-70's he was close to the best in
the world. Finally, I'm fully aware that Young and Douglas had much different
styles---my point was that lack of fear/intimidation of their opponents
(respectively, Foreman and Tyson) served them well. |
|3/11/06 11:01:33 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|I watched a
tape of Wladimir Klitschko against Jameel McCline from about 2002
today.Klischko won by a late round TKO and he was ahead in the fight but
I was amazed about how biased the announcers, among them George Foreman, were
for Klitchsco.Yes I agreed Klitschsco was ahead in the fight at the time
of the stoppage but it wasn't as one sided as the announcers were saying and as
I remembered the fight when I origninally saw it.Wladimir K won most of
the rounds by having mainly a more accurate jab but when I saw the fight today
on tape I thought there wasn't that huge of a difference between the fighters in
a lot of the rounds, that Wladimir K had a slight advantage in a lot of
them.Foreman, Jim Lampley, and Larry Merchant made it seem like McCline
wasn't fighting at all and if he had just landed a few more punches in a lot of
the rounds, he could have been leading on the scorecards.There were not
that many rounds when Wladimir K really hurt McCline, the most severe of course
was when he knocked McCline down in the round that ended the fight and McCline's
corner didn't let him out for the next round.At that time Wladimir was
the media favorite and they were really building him up at the expense of
McCline. Very biased reporting.Of course this was before we found out
what a brittle chin Wladimir has. |
|3/13/06 04:29:32 AM|Howard C.|Louisville||howardc@louisville||||10|Great to see
the site is still purring along after I haven't visited for a while. Kent - you
are a keen fan. I can't bring myself to know anything about the current guys in
the heavyweight division. I go back to the era before Liston and there was
always something about the champions that drew me in. It didn't matter
who...Patterson, Liston, Ali, Frazier - it didn't matter. You wanted to watch
them. Of course, it was the same with Marciano, but even lesser champions like
Charles and Walcott and all those guys. What's wrong with today's guys? Why
can't they interest us? None of them interest me. It's not just because I'm
getting old. It's because these guys have nothing going for them. Who is Ruiz
and Rahman? I don't want to know anything about them. |
|3/13/06 10:43:56 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron||||10|HC: At least Rahman
pulled the KO upset of Lewis, which makes me interested in him as a fighter---
but you're right. There's a drought of talent and intrigue with these guys
today.|
|3/13/06 02:27:19 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron||||10|I think the real
problem is multi-faceted. Howard C: We don't get to know the fighters and have
a personal interest in them anymore, because for one thing, the fights aren't
televised on network television and secondly, the fights are way too infrequent.
When these so called contenders are fighting once a year and the fight isn't on
broadcast television---how can anyone develop much interest? What about 3 or 4
fights a year for guys in and around the top 10, most of this on television?
We'd get to know the players and we'd take stock in the rankings and outcome of
fights. "The Contender" was in the end, a failure on NBC (for a lot of
reasons). But I actually found myself liking some of these guys, disliking
others and interested in the outcome. |
|3/13/06 04:00:57 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Another face of the problem is that
the boxing organizators almost never organize the right fight at the right time,
I mean the fight that everyone wants to see. Why organizing fights like Tyson-
Etienne, 3 Holyfield-Ruiz ? Who cares about them ? Why organizing Lewis-Tyson at