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|9/19/03 03:09:50 PM|Gerry Schultz|Cleveland,
Ohio||jgschultz11@msn.com||||10|It's just my opinion, but I don't have
Smokin'Joe, one of my favorites also, and Lennox Lewis that far apart. Guys,
anything can happen in the heavyweight division. Marciano is trailing Ez Charles
badly, than BAM it's over. Ingo Johannson caught Floyd Patterson, no one I know
claims he was a better fighter, Patterson is still considered one of the best
boxers ever despite his weak chin. No one I know claims Mc Call or Rahman are
better than Lewis, but if they couldn't punch, they wouldn't be out there in the
first place. Holmes would fall down for a lot of his opponents, was still a
champ of considerable ability. Is JQ that much better than Earnie Shavers? I
don't think so. He caught him early, that can happen with heavyweights. Jerry
had Chuvalo all the way, then took a knockdown. Ali got caught by Chuck Wepner.
When the guys are this big, anything can happen. Lewis is a tremendous boxer and
a credit to the sport, easily top 20. Also, there's a big diff between punching
power and physical strength, which some here seem to mix up. Foreman was a huge
strong guy who could also punch with amazing power. Tyson is a smaller guy, but
his punching power was just as big. Foreman fell all over the place vs. Ron
Lyle, don't forget. His chin was not that well tested. JQ took Lyle's punch much
better, that's a chin. Sorry, I don't agree that Foreman, Holmes are as far up
the list as some here do. I rank them, Joe and Lewis not that far apart at all.
To each his own. Massimo, I've enjoyed your "White Shadows" references. I don't
dislike Shaq, I just think his 'star card' has allowed him a lot of unearned
credit. If NBA games are called evenly, Shaq fouls out of most of them before
the fourth quarter, this is not football. Real nice guy, very good athlete for a
huge guy, needs to earn what he's been given. Andre the Giant did have a
pituitary condition which killed him. When he was 21 he was a rangy athletic 7-
footer who sold a lot of tickets. He was over 400 lbs. when he died. A must-
see is Lewis's short, amazingly quick work of Razor Ruddock. Ruddock was a big
puncher, not a very good boxer, as Lewis, Morrison revealed. Carnera has been
mentioned as a huge guy with a less-than-huge punch, size and power do not
always go hand in hand. I watched Bert Cooper nearly KO Evander Holyfield, it
takes nothing away from EH's rep as a great fighter. Anything can happen with
heavys. Not having a great chin takes nothing away from quite a few very good
fighters. |
|9/19/03 03:12:22 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Jerry would
have had an outside chance to beat Tyson but I am afraid Tyson's fast sharp
accurate combination punching in his prime would have cut Jerry to ribbons. The
later version of Tyson, standing too straight up and throwing one punch at a
time and then tying up his opponent, was (is) very beatable by an in prime
Jerry. People forget that Tyson at his best was a monster of a fighter. It was
when his crazy outside of the ring life began to effect his concentration inside
of the ring that he became almost just another fighter. Tyson, of course,
always has had that tremendous punching power and finishing ability when he had
a man hurt so he never could be just another fighter. |
|9/19/03 03:15:45 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||7|very good road
man, it's a boxing site folks. i don't agree w / road man. quarry is not big
enough to compete against todays people. thats not a putdown on jerry, patterson
ellis even frazier would have no chance at all. frazier because of his style
would get knocked out in 1 rd. no disrespect to frazier. i'm writing a book also
kent. it's called kents travel guide , california fact or fiction or maybe
newyork where to find it. the clock has struck, gotta go coo coo|
|9/19/03 03:49:23 PM|Massimo|Rome||t||||10|Gerry-Andre' The Midget weighted
about 540lbs when he died, but he was not tall at all (as I discussed
before).As a former Ruddock's fan I was very disappointedwhen he lost
against Morrison. But that wasn't thereal Ruddock, he was overweight ! Do
you rememberhis KO victory against Michael Dokes ? I think hecould hit a