January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

close to Jerry's level. But I'm talking about the very top, because I'm not
interested in paper champions or guys who got there by default or by way of
crooked promotion, management etc. The real,legitimate heavyweight champions
were Johnson, Dempsey, Louis, Marciano, Patterson, Liston, Ali, Frazier,
Foreman, Holmes, Tyson and Lewis.Massimo: Tyson looked like a "clown"
against Lewis, because Tyson was washed up and had been for more than ten years.
If Tyson & Lewis had met in the late 80's, Lewis would have been put into
dreamland, early in the first round.|
|12/17/03 11:46:48
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Massimo -
As I said, we don't go to many sporting events any more, and haven't
seen the Bulls live since their glory days back in the 90s. Shame they lost
their fantastic coach, Phil Jackson, but nobody can get along with the Bull's
awful owners, Slimesdorf and Tinhorn for long. I'm a little under 5'4", so I'm a
~lot~ shorter than "Baby Shaq." Sportmart (a huge sporting goods chain), used to
have a life sized Shaq in the shoe department, and it was unbelievable to stand
beside - so much so that there were actually people (myself included), who got
their picture taken next to the cardboard figure! I imagine I could have put
~both~ my feet, with gym shoes on, inside one of his gunboat, size 22 tennies!
:-)Re Quarry: individual sports are so unforgiving. In a team sport,
individual players can have an off day, and the team can still win, plus they
have another shot the next week (in football, sometimes the next day/night in
the others). Even in tennis and golf, you have many chances to get on top and
stay there. No sport is crueler than boxing in this way, among
others.I've said it before, and I'll say it again - if anyone were to
ever get a handle on motivation and body chemistry to the point that performance
could be predictable on demand, they'd make Bill Gates look like a beggar! Of
course, everyone would have it though, from pee wee athletes to the pros.|
|12/17/03 12:19:57 PM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|Paul-You Australians are the
smartest in the wordl, sea food is my favorite food. We Italians use to eat a
lot on Christmas dinner ! As a first dish we usually eat LASAGNE or SPAGHETTI (
it's hard to say what's better of the two), as a second dishyou can find
everything you wish and in conclusiona lot of cakes and similar ( torrone,
panettone, God knows the English traslation of these two words...). Torrone is a
sort of chocolate with peanuts inside, panettone is... Too hard to explain
!RS-If you think you are big, I'll let you know that I'm 5'6"
without shoes ! I know that's incredible, but I'm really 5'6" ! I think I have a
pituitary condition, acromegaly or something other... I'd jump 3 meals for
having the joy of standing beside a life-size Shaq. If you think that Shaq is
big, you should see Calvin Lane beside Shaq in Calvin Lane' s site. Shaq has
very large feet and hands in comparison with his ( limitated) height... Yao Ming
is 7'6" tall and wears a 19 size shoe ( Cenerentola). I'm not going to say my
shoe size because I don't want to scare anybody...|
|12/17/03 02:06:48 PM|Michael Cobb|Chicago||mikekoob@yahoo.com||||9|Styles make
boxing, and there were styles that gave Jerry problems, but there was one style
that seemed to give him no problems: the straight-up, straight-ahead style.
(Examples: Mac Foster, Ron Lyle.) For this reason, I always thought Jerry would
have whipped George Foreman.|
|12/17/03 04:19:23 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Pete, the
Spinks brothers, Carnera, Burns, Sharkey, Johannson, older Foreman, Moorer, and
even Hasim Rahman were all lnear champions, they were not paper champions as
they "beat the man who beat the man," meaning they were undisputed champions.
For example, there was nothing political about Rahman's win over Lennox Lewis,an
all time great, unless you think a right hand punch that knocked Lewis out cold
is political! Sure Rahman lost the rematch but he was still a legitimate
undisputed heavyweight champion of the world who earned his title in the ring
and Jerry was a better fighter than him. Funny how you can put Riddick