January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

his era, a very good heavy in my opinion. Kent, you certainly put out some very
good posts, I think you won me over on the retirement issue, but I'll stick with
the pro-Walton camp for reasons given. His play versus Philly's stars was
legendary. I consider him the top white center also, not that that was why he
was good or was why he wasn't the best. He was very, very good for any center,
as was Dave Cowens, though I do not consider him top Ten like Walton. Given
Larry Bird's recent talk, I did have to clarify... Micheal Spinks by late KO
over Doug Jones. Frank Bruno tries to get Tommy Morrison early, winning the
early rounds, but Morrison , who beat better guys, takes the late end and pounds
out a close decision. Thanks. |
|6/12/04 04:39:21 PM|Gerry|Cleveland||same again||||10|Sorry, missed one. Mathis
outboxes Mac Foster for eight rounds, then WHAM! Foster finds him and puts him
down. Somehow, Mathis survives the round and Foster for a wobbly but clear
decision. Thanks yet again.|
|6/12/04 07:59:26 PM|Bob Bumbera|NC||renfbera@aol.com||||10|Evren, I had to look
back at your post to see what you were talking about, I think we were right on
the money with our predictions! In the next three, Mathis wins an easy decesion
over Foster. Foster tries too hard for a KO, Big Buster avoids most of the hard
leather with speedy counters. Spinks decesions Jones in a fight for pure boxing
fans, even most of the way, the stronger Spinks pulls away in the scoring in the
last two frames. Morrison wins a split decesion over Bruno by virtue of a 11
round knockdown, again another back and fourth battle that could have gone
either way before the knockdown. |
|6/12/04 08:03:41 PM|Bob Bumbera|NC||renfbera@aol.com||||10|Hey guy's do the
rules allow for split decesions or do we want to go for clear cut scores?|
|6/12/04 09:04:58 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Bob, in our
last tourney we allowed split verdicts but if everyone wants to change it, I can
change my vote to Mathis by close but unanimous decision. I feel split
verdicts and draws for that matter, as sometimes we just can't decide who is
better, are part of real boxing and should be part of our imaginary tournament
as well.I will go by whatever the majority wants to do on
this.Also, did we decide on fifteen rounds for the whole tournament or
twelve rounds? Another possiblity is twelve rounds for the early rounds and
fifteen rounds for the later stages of the tournament.|
|6/13/04 06:59:45 AM|Steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|I caught a great show
about Joe Louis on showtime.I't showed his fight with Billy
Conn.Suprisingly,Conn looked almost as big as Louis at the weigh in.Even in the
ring,he looked almost as big.They only showed parts of a few rounds,but Conn was
beating Louis to the punch constantly,and actualy staggered him at one point in
the 12th round.He told his corner he thought he could knock Louis out!They
begged him to just stay away and box,as they thought he was ahead on all
cards.Instead ,he went out and slugged toe to toe and suffered one of the most
brutal knockouts I've ever seen.When asked after the fight why he changed
strategy,He answered ,"what's the sense of being Irish if you can't be stupid"?
I thought that was one of the funniest lines I've ever heard from a
fighter.Please don't anyone take offense.I'm only second generation Irish
American myself. Spinks by
decision in a pretty good fight where Jones knocks him down in the first and
third round.I think Mac Foster would spear Mathis with that straight right and
KO him with his best weapon,a left hook,in the tenth round.Mathis may have given
Frazier a good fight ,untill he collapsed,but styles make fights.I have to admit
I haven't seen Bruno in any fights ,except for him getting clobbered by Tyson,so
I'm picking Morrison by decision. |
|6/13/04 07:12:20 AM|Steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|I agree that split
decisions and draws are a very real part of real life boxing and should be
included in the tourniment.They could allways be brought back for a rematch.I
leave it up to Evren to decide,since he's doing all the work.|