January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

size and better punch in my opinion. Mike Tyson continues to be an easy target
for negative opinion, the guy has my sympathy as being one of the most used
athletes I've ever seen. I rate him ahead of boith Lewis and Holmes as a Top Ten
guy, prime vs. prime. I don't consider Holmes or Lewis Top Ten. I'd take Quarry
over Henry Cooper, and it's good to see people talking about heavies like Cooper
and Bonavena as the '60-70's period was so full of talent, a very interesting
time. JQ'S accomplishments in that era are tremendous, given he fought nearly
every top guy available. I do think Lewis overlooked Klitschko, but he should
hang 'em up anyway as he clearly looks on the downside. Klitschko took
everything he had and would have stopped him without the cut. I don't think
Lewis can knock him out at this point. How about Corrie Sanders? Thanks again.|
|8/9/03 05:54:22 PM|Massimo|Rome||Massimo.Cini@roma2.infn.it||||10|Corrie
Sanders deserves a fight for the titleafter his great win against Wladimir
Klitschko,a top 5 in my opinion ! I think that the LewisKlitschko fight
was stopped too soon !! Two more rounds would have been enough !!I just
finished to rewatch Ali-Frazier III. That fight is a gift to humanity !! It' s
the most beautiful heavyweight fight of all times !!! I lovethat fight
!!!!!!!!!!!!!|
|8/9/03 09:05:12 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|Hey Sean
Caddle, if I am to use your logic regarding Gerry Cooney, and not consider his
fights against Foreman and Spinks because Cooney was a drug user. Then I am not
going to consider Sonny Listons fights against Muhammad Ali, Because in the
first fight Liston did not take Ali serious, and in the second fight the referee
Joe Walcott lost control of the fight. I am not going to consider Roberto
Duran's second fight against Ray Leonard, because Duran had an upset stomache,
and we did not see the real Duran against Leonard. I can on and on.I
wish some one could explain to me why Cooney is considered to have made a "good"
fight against Holmes. Cooney was stopped in the 13th round. Carl "The Truth"
Williams, and Tim Witherspoon lost disputed decisions to Holmes. They certainly
made better showings than Cooney. Mike Weaver made a better showing against
Holmes than Cooney did.Cooney claims that when he fought Foreman he was
clean and sober. I've heard him claim repeatedly that he lost to Foreman,
because, "he [Cooney] got his Irish up." Whatever that is suppose to
mean. I can't rate Cooney's boxing abilites very high for the obvious
reasons which are very clear. Conney had a glass jaw. Cooney had little or no
stamina, he never won a fight that went beyond 8 rounds. Now just because
Cooney was a drug user and did not give a 100% in training, does not entitled
him to a free pass. By a free pass I mean, well, if he was not a drug user, if
he was not an alcohlic, he would have trained harder and done better. The fact
is every time he was training for a fight and he used drugs or alcohol he was
lacking heart and copping out. Plainly he could not cope with the
pressure.Look how infrequently he fought. And I might add he was cheating every
fan of his and every paying customer by accepting millions of dollars in payment
and not giving a 100%. Cooney never ONCE in his career got up off the
canvass after being knocked down and won a fight. Every time he was knocked
down he lost. Cooney, never once in his career won a fight with a come from
behind victory. There was no fire in Cooney's heart. No Sir, Cooney had a
formidable punch, God given, but nothing else to offer. Except excuses given by
himself and others|
|8/10/03 03:52:15 AM|Massimo|spaghetti e
pizza||Massimo.Cini@roma2.infn.it||||10|I think Ali'-Liston II was fixed ( Ali'
probablydidn't know it, like Carnera...). Ali' wasn't a devastating puncher
! How many fights did Ali'win within the first round ? Two ! Liston II
andJim Robinson (an unknown ! ). Anyway, I thinkthe first fight was
regular because Liston dideverything to win ( regular and not) but he simply
could'nt. I' m not sure of all this things,that's just my impression. What
do you think about, friends ? My greetings to Shaq !|