January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

y KO during the 1990s well into his forties shows the weakness of recent
heavyweights as far as skills go. Larry Holmes and Tim Witherspoon were also
effective well into their forties. This again shows fighters from the past were
better than their recent and current counterparts. |
|4/14/04 01:03:57 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|KENT YOU MUST BE
CRAZY! SINCE WHEN DID FOREMAN EVER HAVE ANY SKILL , SIZE BRUT FORCE IS ALL HE
EVER HAD, I JUST WISH I COULD BE ABLE TO SET IT UP, SOME THESE LINEMAN IN THE
NFL WOULD KNOCKOUT FRAZIER, IT'S NOT A MATTER OF SKILL AGAINST FRAZIER, YOU JUST
HAVE TO BE BIG AND HIT HARD, FRAZIER HAS BEEN SHOOK BY FAT BOY RON STANDER, ALI
2ND FIGHT, JUMBO CUMMINGS, WHO JUST HAD MUSCLE NOTHING ELSE, I HATE TO ADMIT
THESE THINGS AS I LOVE THE HEAVYS OF THE PAST, BUT THIS IS REALITY KENT, SHOW ME
ONE FIGHT WHERE FRAZIER KNOCKED SOMEONE OUT WITH 1 PUNCH, IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, EVEN
IN HIS BEST CONDITION FRAZIER LOOKED FAT, BECAUSE IT WAS HIS NATURAL WAY OF
BEING, I DON'T BELEIVE ANY OF THAT CRAP FORMAN SAYS, HE ALWAYS BUILDS PEOPLE UP,
WHAT A LIAR HE IS!!|
|4/14/04 02:40:48 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Linemen from
the NFL knocking out the great Joe Frazier? Now that is funny! I could take
any average journeyman heavyweight with say, forty professional fights, even one
in the 215 pound range, and match him against any 300 + pound football lineman
who has no boxing experience and the football player would be lucky to make it
out of the second round. Haven't you ever seen the toughman contests on
television where the football players fight it out? They are pathetic as far as
boxing skills go and most of them couldn't even beat me if I was in any kind of
shape let alone Smokin Joe Frazier. Another example is about last year,
210 pound Davarryl Williamson knocked out 320 pound American Corey Sanders (not
to be confused withSouth African Corrie Sanders). American Sanders has much
more boxing skill than any NFL football player but he still lost. You
Koo Koo would have said a football player could probably beat Williamson because
he is a small heavyweight.It is true alot of potential boxers go into
football at an early age and these players could have been good boxers if they
had boxed from an early age but they haven't boxed and they wouldn't last in the
ring because of this.All things being equal, size will win out if
skill levels are even, that is why boxing has weight classes. But skill can
often overcome size if the skills are above the larger fighter's level.|
|4/14/04 03:49:31 PM|Pete|Cleveland||@home||||10|"In the entire history of the
heavyweight title, only two, Lewis and Riddick Bowe can even dare to claim
greatness" (QUOTE)You've got to be high or something to say that Riddick
Bowe was "GREAT"! Even Lewis, who was perhaps great in his own little time and
place, doesn't fall into the category of "GREAT". Great fighters fought great
opponents(ALI, Frazier, Foreman...) and created great moments in boxing
history.Speaking of Frazier, he was a highly skilled fighter in his prime.
Two of his three fights with Ali (1&3) were great performances. Fighters of that
era were not that big. Frazier was less than 6' and Ali, in his prime, clocked
in at about 215lbs. The problem with a lot of these big SuperHeavyWeights is
that they lack stamina. If they can connect early in a fight, the odds are in
their favour; but very few of them look good in the later rounds, if they last
that long.There's nothing out there currently that can measure up to Ali,
Holmes, Frazier or Tyson(yes Tyson) in the prime of their careers. There is too
much money to be made by promoting numbers of paper champions rather than one
bonafide unified title holder, the result being a whole crew of mediocre, mid-
card players.|
|4/14/04 05:02:41 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Pete, I was
maybe being a little kind in saying Bowe and Lewis could make a claim for
greatness, Lewis maybe, but in the interest of making my main argument I will
concede that point to you. That is not what I was trying to say. In
fact you back up my contention that we are not in the age of super-heavyweights
dominating the scene because without those two fighters, there have been no