January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

some cases, harder hitting than Dempsey, and they didn't do to their opponents
what Jack did.So a few ounces of mercury would mean this guy's gloves
would weigh 12 oz, and in the show, they had the offending fighter unable to
hold his hands up, they were so heavy. C'mon! Fighters don't have a problem
doing this with ~16~ ouncers. Plus hands would be slower with more weight.
I think the show was just making something up that sounded dramatic, and
the average viewer wouldn't know the difference. Even though I like the two CSI
shows, I've caught the Las Vegas one in two mistakes already. Like the old
McGyver series - climbers used to watch it just to laugh at the preposterous
things they did to be exciting.|
|11/28/03 07:29:19 PM|Massimo|Rome||5||||10|Kent-Did someone control if
Dempsey's hands were all right ? Maybe he sacrificed his hands for the
glory.Evren-Did you receive my email ?I suspect that the
thesis of the bolt is true. Even at the weight-in Jack held a little stone for
adding weight. Nobody can cause so much damage in so little time ! Foreman hit
Frazier almost as often in Jamaica and after the fight Frazier was pretty fine,
even if a little sad. He didn't lose teeth and he hadn't 49 broken bones !
Dempsey was often incorrect in his fights. For istance, against Sharkey he was
having his ass kicked and then did what he did.|
|11/28/03 08:08:06 PM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|Kent-I meant " were all
right after the fight".I just forgot " after the fight "|
|11/28/03 08:12:30 PM|Gerry Schultz|Cleveland, Ohio||jgschultz11@msn.com||||9|In
checking back on my favorite fighter's site, I see some folks are still sniping
at each other and continuing some of the same old arguements. Cooney and
Morrison are not chumps( whatever a chump is ) for failing to beat the very best
in their careers, certainly neither was Quarry. All three were stars just as
much for their ability as the novelty of their race, given that few whites
choose boxing as their sport. Lets drop the race issue, all three beat good
black fighters, all three lost to the best not because of race but because of
talent, which usually was the only thing to decide any of their fights. Dempsey-
Willard " hands of stone " issue is interesting stuff, given Dempsey's
devastation of the farm-strong Willard in just three minutes, I believe it to be
true. Still doesn't stop me from calling Dempsey one of the all-time Top Ten
heavies. Willard's heart was never really into being champ, his reign was short
and strange, especially given his bizarre 26- round win over the better Jack
Johnson, the culminating fight of the White Hope era people have tried to tie
Quarry ,Cooney and Morrison to. Is this what awaits Joe Mesi? Hopefully not. |
|11/28/03 08:44:33 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|HEY GERRY, WHATS
YOUR PROBLEM, I'M THE KOOKOO CLOCK, I SPEAK TRUTH ABOUT THESE FIGHTERS, GERRY
COONEY WAS NOTHING, OVERATED CRY BABY, LIKE YOU, GET OVER IT, HEY KENT! THROW
THE BUM OUT!! KOO KOO|
|11/28/03 08:46:14 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|I always
felt that Dempsey's gloves were loaded. My reasoning being based on the fact
that Jack Kearns bet $10,000 against $100,000 that Dempsey would knock Willard
out in the 1st round. Dempsey himself mentions the bet in his autobiography.
It is my feeling that a hustler like Kearns would not bet over a millions
dollars (todays value of $10,000 as compared to 1919), unless he had an edge. A
big edge.|
|11/28/03 09:12:04 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Massimo -yes I got your e-mail. I'll
send you the tape and then you can send the cash in the post. I hope that is
okay with you.EvrenOh and Massimo in the Heavyweight tournament we ran a
couple of years ago Primo Carnera went out in the preliminary stages against
Gerry Cooney. The posters voted that he was stopped late. Regarding the
Dempsey-Willard bout. Amazing to think that back then Willard was considered a
coward for quitting on his stool!!!!!!!!|
|11/28/03 09:24:30 PM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|Evren-What a swear ! Maybe
Cooney and Ali' together would have had a chance against Carnera, but Cooney