January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

and 50% a slip. I think that Holyfield did beat Tyson fair and square in
the first fight. He gave him a good whipping. I don't know who would have won a
Tyson-Holyfield in 1991. The Mac Foster knockdown was similar to the
Shavers knockdown. JQ could hit guys with wonderful flurries of punches. Maybe
he wasn't a one punch knockout artist, but his killer instinct was
awesome.I think that now Laila Ali' vs Mike Tyson would be a good
matchup. Tyson's career is over. He should have retired after the first fight
with Holyfield. He doesn't need money. If even Bill Gates gave him all his
property, after a week Mike Tyson would already be full of debits. He would buy
51 tigers, 43 Ferrari etc. I am afraid about his health. He should quit his ring
career. I don't want him to become an invalid.Ernie-Now I see
what kvetch means ! It's not even in the dictionary. Now I'm gonna use it to
whip Italian asses.|
|8/6/04 05:59:19 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|Ernie - The Irish boxing scene is very
dire, unfortunately. There are very few 'Irish' fighters out there. Kevin
McBride is an 'Irish' guy, you have Noel Magee at Super Middle and Eammon Magee
at Junior Welter - who was recently badly injured in a gangland attack. There
were very few shows held in Ireland in the last few years.Shavers vs Simms
was a good brawl and the Holmes vs Weaver fight was a great one.|
|8/6/04 11:47:02 AM|Mike|Philly||Yammagamma300||||10|Fran -Whats your point ?
About what fights we saw live, I saw alot of fights live, so what.that don't
give me any advantage over anyone. |
|8/6/04 04:06:12 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|I see a lot of
fights live and it does give someone a different perspective than seeing boxing
on T.V. Some punches that seem strong in person don't look as good on T.V. and
vice versa, where some don't look so good live and look better on T.V. The
cheering of the crowd can influence how a person sees a fight, the announcers on
T.V. do the same for the home viewers. Different camera angles can also change
how effective punches look just as a person sitting in another a section of an
arena can see a punch differently. Another thing, someone can look away for a
split second at a live fight and miss an important punch or moment in a fight
and the fans and media often don't have the luxury of instant replay that is on
most broadcasts.Seeing boxing live is not better than watching it on
television it is just different. But I prefer live as there is no way a
television can convey the atmosphere surrounding a fight card. This is an
experience that all fight fans should experience.|
|8/6/04 05:26:59 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Kent-I'd like to know
something more about the subject "how to judge a round". I don't know that much
about that. For instance, what is the minimum that a fighter has to do to win a
round if the other fighter doesn't do anything ? Do you think that an hard punch
to the face is enough to win a round ? And what about a couple of jabs ? Or a
couple of body punches ? How do you judge the second round of Frazier-Bonavena 1
? 2 or 3 points for Bonavena ? I know that the judges in America almost never
declare a round a draw. I think this is a mistake, because in this way it
can happen that a fight with (or having) many close rounds can be scored very
differently by the judges.Thanks |
|8/6/04 11:13:42 PM|Ernie Laxalt|Reno, NV||elax66@aol.com||||10|Massimo, I've
wondered about "the in's and out's" (that is, the whole subject, including
nuances) of scoring, too. When we were kids in California in the 50s and 60s,
they always announced they were using the California Simplified Scoring System.
I don't know if it was designed this way, but in practice, it always meant 10
for a winner of a round, 9 for the loser. If you got your man in real trouble or
knocked him down, you'd win 10-8. I suppose if you really messed him up, knocked
him down a couple of times, maybe until the bell saved him, then you might get
an 10-7 round. At the end, the 2 judges and the referee counted the totals.
As to HOW you scored, I always did it in a mostly intuitive way, looking for
who dominated the round, who landed more effected punches, whose plan seemed to