January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|8/7/02 04:04:05 PM|Steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Hey Bob the rambling
man,[formerly from N.J.]I agree with you totally on Evander Hollyfield.I didn't
mean that he was a weak heavywieght,Quite the opposite.He did stand in there and
held his own against bigger guys.With Tyson however,Hollyfield seemed to be much
the stronger of the two.He stopped all of Tyson's charges cold,without backing
up very much.It seemed to me he outmuscled and moved Tyson around much more
easily than he did Bowe or Lewis.So how strong does this make Tyson? Overall
size and strenth does not allways equate with a knockout punch,example Oscar
Bonavena.That's why I feel Frazier would be able to get Tyson going backwards
after the first few very dangerous rounds. Look at the Chuvallo vs Frazier
fight.When Chavalo tried to bull Frazier into the ropes,Frazier would grap him
and spin him around ,and then hit him!|
|8/7/02 04:50:01 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Steve, you are
right about Joe Frazier's strength. Interesting story that I heard about the
Frazier/Chuvalo fight; that before the fight, the two fighters armed wrestled
and Chuvalo beat Joe both right handed and left handed. Joe was embarrased and
took it out on Chuvalo in the ring. I think what I meant about Tyson being
stronger than Frazier was his punching power and I can see Joe charging into
Tyson like he did against Foreman in their first fight and Tyson catching Joe
early before Joe was fully warmed up, like Foreman did. It was because of
styles and the fact the Joe was always a slow starter and would be vunerable to
the Tyson power early that makes me think Tyson would win by early knockout.
Jerry was also very strong for a small heavyweight. The way he threw either
Thad Spencer or Mac Foster, I can't remember which, to one side to give him a
better punching angle leading up to stopping his opponent showed how strong
Jerry was. |
|8/8/02 01:58:40 PM|Steve|N.J.||dmmsrm.comcast.net||||10|Hey Kent,that's a great
little anecdote about Frazier and Chavalo arm wrestling.That's the kind of info
I really enjoy picking up.I't seems as though a few of you guys ,Paul Drolet and
Jimmy Dorsey and yourself,have alot of good insider information.As for Tyson vs
Frazier,I think you and I will have to agree to disagree.Your right about the
possibility of Tyson getting Frazier early and cold.However,it only happened to
Frazier against one guy , The monster,known as George Forman.Forman was so much
bigger and stronger that it looked like they belonged in different weight
classes.I am of the opinion that Forman would have controlled the smaller Tyson
and battered him much as he did Frazier.Here's a question for everyone's
opinion.Is there a difference between a heavy handed puncher and a sharp,high
velocity hitter like Quarry? Who was a more effective ko artist,a Quarry or a
Forman?|
|8/8/02 05:29:46 PM|Bob Bumbera|TX||renfbera@aol.com||||10|Steve, no problem.
I'm only in Texas till Tuesday then it's back to Charlotte. George Foreman
would destroy Mike Tyson, 5 rounds tops. George was just too strong for him. A
common opponent? My old head-buddy Evander Holyfield. I read an article in SI a
loooong time ago about an arm-wrestling champ who was a sparring partner for
Rocky Marciano. I can't remember his name, he said he and other sparring
partners would beat The Rock arm-wrestling all the time, he didn't seem that
strong outside the ring. But inside, when he hit you, you wanted to run for
your life. Guy's who can hit like that, the Ernie Shavers, Tysons, Bob Fosters
of the world will have a better KO percentage than a more accurate guy most of
the time. If nothing else it won't take them as long to do the job. There are
a lot of big strong guy's, people who can pick you up and toss you across the
room, when it come to punching power they just don't have it. Of course there
are those that do like George Foreman. Foreman will cream guy's like Frazier
and Tyson every time. Put him in against Ali, Young, Larry Holmes accurate
guy's who'll pick you apart and he'll lose. I guess it's all about styles, and
who can take a punch. Ali-Foreman, Leonard-Hearns. Who's the harder hitter and
who can take a better punch. Ok I'm getting long winded, I's time to get back to