January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

will have to work too hard to keep you balanced, and you'll be easier to knock
down. I've always been a big dude, and Mother Nature is usually just right: size
10 or up for a 6-footer, but I can't say for the lighter classes. I used to know
former middleweight #1 contender Mando Ramos, and he had what seemed to be small
hands and feet. Of course, it really is to your advantage to have big hands.
That's a matter of physics in more weight (actually mass) times force (like
speed) creating more power. But hands about the same size do not make any
difference, compared to other factors. It matters most in a mismatch where a
bigger man with big hands doesn't need to swing or connect as hard to land with
and hurt a smaller man with smaller hands. As all of you know, Sonny Liston had
huge hands. Primo Cernera probably did, too. I'm guessing Marciano had small
hands for a heavyweight and had to work much harder to generate his power.
Damned if I don't sound just like Roadscholarette giving you all a lecture
in Boxing 101. I apologize. I don't know any more than any other slob.
Massimo, I'm very sorry to learn Laura Antonelli is ill. She is about 65
now, and I hope she recovers. Jimmy, was Irish Frankie Crawford a street
brawler? He was great in the ring and looked like a kid who got into scuffles
too. Oscar de la Hoya swears he never had a single street fight in his life.
Hard to imagine because he came up in East LA. |
|7/19/04 10:30:17 AM|Massimo|Roma ||4||||10|Ernie-I think that
having big hands is way more important in a street brawl than in a boxing ring.
Fighters have gloves, after all ! Liston wore the biggest gloves in the boxing
business at the time, though. Carnera had huge hands, 14.75 in ! 15 in for
Liston, 11.5 Marciano. Shaq ? Lane ? Coolidge ? Wilt ?Andre's hands were
16in. That was the only big thing the midget had.|
|7/19/04 12:13:08 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|SPOKANE
WASHINGTON||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|How about Jerry vs "TWO TON TONY
GALENTO,or Lou Nova,And the Baer brothers. Those would have been naturals,Jerry
used to use Ron Yary (Vikings HALL OF FAME lineman) for a punching bag IN High
School.The two ended up best friends forever though.|
|7/19/04 12:30:44 PM|brenda|ca||meme||||10|i thought we were raising subjects
people wanted some answers to maybe not if people woun't believe what they are
told by the family.don't you think we would tell the truth? If Jerry got beat up
no shame,Jerry always had back up with him so others would know too not just the
one telling the story.if you do want to talk about this let me know i will e-
mail you. want some more stories i will ask Bob to get on and answer questions.
me|
|7/19/04 12:47:29 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|I think JQ would have beaten Tony
Galento handily. Galento was a very dangerous puncher, with an ackward (
spelling) and strange stile. JQ rarely had problems with sluggers, what he
suffered the most were the good jabbers. JQ would have probably won a fight with
Max Baer. Max Baer did punch like hell but couldn't boxe an egg ( slang, I
guess).Buddy Baer was a very good fighter with an outstanding record 50-7
(45 kos) and great punching power. I would havebet on Buddy Baer against
Jerry. Too much shoe size difference between the two men. But maybe I would have
been a fool and I would have lost my money.|
|7/19/04 03:40:28 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Smith and Charles go through... next
batch..sorry for delay : - Vitali Klitschko vs Mike TysonEvander
Holyfield vs Carl WilliamsSpeak soon...|
|7/19/04 09:02:09
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Sheesh, sounds
like you guys never get it right ! It's not the size of the hand on the fighter,
it's the size of the knuckle forming his fist. My favourites, Duran and Frazier,
weren't big men and didn't have big hands, but their knuckles were big and
calloused. Same with Clay.Vito Antuofermo used to soak his knuckles in
brine to toughen them. Jack Dempsey even cultured the wart virus on his knuckles
to harden the surface and increase the 'whack' on impact. Ernie. I'm not