January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

counted, and he was bobbing as many as 20 times a minute at times!Ali
was lucky to have lasted with Smokin' Joe. Holmes would've gone down. Larry was
a superb boxer, clever, fast, had a decent enough chin, but couldn't have kept
Frazier off. No one could, save Foreman.|
|8/28/03 02:04:31 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|I agree that
Frazier would have beaten Holmes. I think Frazier peaked the night he knocked
out Bob Foster and the first Ali fight. Frazier was already going downhill when
he fought Ron Stander. |
|8/28/03 03:19:10
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Some good wannabe
stories:Lotsa people who aren't fighters like to think they are, or
would have been if things had been different. Some stories that show it aint
neccessarily so!Writer, Ernest Hemmingway used to spar, and thought he
was a tough guy. Good Lord, ~I~ would have sparred with him as slow as he was,
but anyway, he used to browbeat poor, skinny, know nothing Cubans into getting
in with him, and then knocked them all over the place. Once, he convinced (by
then X) heavyweight champion Gene Tunney to don the gloves for a little workout.
Tunney knew Hemmingway's reputation, and didn't like it, so he let Papa huff and
puff and roundhouse away for a while. Finally, after Ernie got a little frisky,
perhaps mistaking Tunney's compassion for his (Hemmingway's) own talent, Tunney
capitalized on one of EH's many mistakes, and in the razor sharp twinkling of an
eye, threw a jab and a right cross, each stopping inches from Hemmingway's head,
regarded the fat sloppy author with disdain, and climbed down out of the ring,
saying not a word.Sylvester Stallone, star of five Rocky fantasies, also
came to think of himself as a legitimate pugilist. Earnie Shavers was being
seriously considered for the role of Clubber Lang in Rocky 3, a part that
eventually went to Mr. T (who ~looks tougher than Shavers,even though ES could
clean the Mohawked one's clock as if he were a Girl Scout). As they just messed
around in the ring, Stallone suddenly whispered, "Hit me, Earnie, don't hold
back!" Shavers remembers thinking, "Is this guy nuts!?" The coaxing continued,
so Shavers pulled his punch, but still threw one considerably harder than he'd
been, and Stallone threw up, Xing Earnie Shavers from the movie. In
Rocky 2, there's a brief sparring scene in the gym, in which "Rocky's" sparring
partner is none other than the great Roberto Duran. For the less than 30 seconds
that it's on, Duran makes an absolute monkey out of SS, at the end, even tapping
him on the back of the head. Stallone couldn't have hit Duran if he'd thrown a
bucket of water at him.:-)|
|8/28/03 03:24:07 PM|Jonny Q|New York||JohnQW@yahoo.com||||9|I always rooted for
Jerry, but Frazier was also my hero in the early 70s. People who diss Joe
always refer to his fights with Foreman as a measure of the man. They forget
that by the time Joe met Ali in ’71, Frazier had swept through the division. A
division of great fighters. When Joe fought Foreman it was at the two weakest
points of Frazier’s career. In January ’73 Joe was overweight and in poor
health, and Joe was clearly finished in ’76 for his post-Manilla fight with
George. Anyone but me notice that Joe still went five competive round with
George? It was no rerun of the first fight. Despite all, Joe fought a smart
defensive fight in the rematch, suckering George into quick counterpunches, and
by the 4th round Joe was clubbing George with hooks. Then George turned up the
heat and trapped Joe in the 5th. I wish they'd met instead in 74-75, when Joe
was back in form.|
|8/28/03 03:47:52 PM|Massimo|Rome||Wilt.com||||10|Joe Frazier was fantastic even
in the second Ali' fight and probably he deserved a draw; butJonny, I have
to disagree with you about Foreman-Frazier 2. I have that tape and, in my
opinion, George won easily ! He won surely the first and the third round ! I can
maybe give to Frazier a draw in the second and fourth round...Just my opinion !
Joe Frazier, what a champion !|
|8/28/03 03:56:45 PM|Gerry Schultz|Ohio||jgschultz11@msn.com||||9|A lot again on