January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

defenses. Does Vitali deserve to be among the greatest heavyweights of all time
based on those performances? I would say no he doesn't, even if those three
fights unify the heavyweight title. Walton doesn't either in his sport as three
good seasons just isn't enough. As I said before, he should have been if he
hadn't been injured, as he did have the skills of an all time great during the
times in between his many injuries. The fact is though, Walton was injured for
most of his career and he never fulfilled his potential. |
|6/9/04 08:18:40 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Quick comment
on Roy Jones Jr. Jones got caught with a good punch, from Tarver. This can
happen to any fighter. Remember, Jones won the first fight, a close but to me
clear cut decision. Tarver won some rounds by big margins but the truth is he
gave away too many rounds by not letting his hands go.The one loss to
Tarver doesn't diminish his earlier achceivements and like Lennox Lewis among
the heavyweights, who was knocked out twice in his career, Jones belongs
somewhere in the top twenty of all time, minimum, among lt. heavys. |
|6/9/04 08:57:25 PM|steve |NJ||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Hey Ed,no one is trying
to demean Roy Jones .Fact is, on this site we try to look more at the historical
point of view.Alot of guys on this site just don't think he really established
himself by fighting any really great competition.I think the lady your referring
to called herself Rhoadschollarate.I don't think her skin was thick enough to
stick around here.She started drawing some pretty nasty attacks. |
|6/9/04 09:22:53 PM|steve |NJ||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Kent,I don't understand
your last post.Do you feel Jone's should be considered among the top twenty of
lightheavy's ,or heavyweights? Based on what previous accomplishments?Lennox
Lewis got flattened,ko'd by two mediocare fighters.What other top twenty
heavyweights has that happened to?|
|6/9/04 10:06:26 PM|Gerry|Cleveland||same||||10|Roy Jones get high marks in my
book, roids or not. The guy has been a first-rate fighter. People have jumped
him now that he is down, to me, it doesn't change what he has done or how good
he has been. Monzon and Hagler are also among the best I've seen, but these all-
time fights are good for discussion and not much more. At the end, it comes down
to tastes... Kent you make some good points on Walton, but to me, there's not
minimums, just what you can do. Walton led the NBA in rebounds, blocks and FG%
all in the same season AND won a title. He beat Jabbar head-to-head in the
playoffs. Who else has done that, even if they play 20 years? Very few, that's
why he belongs. Ask John Wooden what he thinks. In his brief run, Walton showed
me and others plenty... I agree with Angelo almost verbatim on Marciano and the
Pink Man. No offense to Zora Folley, who was a top guy in the early 60's. Rocco
would give Tubbs, a very good boxer, a gutcheck he'd never forget. Thanks. |
|6/10/04 04:01:34 AM|Evren|Turkey||@||||10|Marciano would be a good fight -
Tubbs would hold his own for a while and do his best to win...however...the
irrespressible Marciano would push and spit and snarl 'till Tubbs could take no
more body shots and fall in round 10..the fight was close until then. Folley vs
Thomas is one of the hardest fights that I could judge on - both were excellent
boxers, both had a decent dig but I think the factor would come down to chin and
Folley was lacking in that department(certainly less than Pink) Thomas by 8th
round KO. |
|6/10/04 04:29:49 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Steve, Jones
would be on my top twenty list for Lt. heavyweights. It is not his fault that
the division has been relatively weak in recent times. I rank him up there
because he has excellent boxing skills and we can't take that away from him
because he got caught with a good punch once. He has beaten everyone
they put in front of him, including his first fight with Tarver. There was some
talk that he was avoiding the German, Dariuz Michalchewski but I think this was
politics among the promoters more than anything else why they never fought.
Michalchewski has been a good fighter and in addition to holding the WBA and IBF
belts, he defended the WBO belt many times. That said, Michalchewski would not