January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Drysdale not being better than Pascual? Maybe Big D wasn't better than say,
Warren Spahn, but Camilio has nothing on him.|
|8/11/04 03:39:59 AM|Massimo|Roma, a little traffic but nice||green-white-
red.com||||10|Johnny Q-I think that many of Carnera's first round
knockouts, at the beginning of his remarkable career, were fixed. Maybe even his
legendary win against George Godfrey ( a very strong guy ) was fixed; the fight
looked regular, but at the beginning of the fifth round, abruptly and without a
reason, Godfrey hit Carnera under the belt and was disqualificated. I think
George Godfrey was slightly ahead on points at the time of the stoppage but
Primo was holding his own. And, believe me, George Godfrey was every bit as
strong as Mike Tyson and even stronger than Laila Ali'. He was included by RING
among the 100 hardest punchers in boxing history. He would be the heavyweight
champion nowadays.But many (if not most) of Carnera's fights were not fixed,
in my opinion. After his defeat with Larry Gaines, in 1932, he sent away his
manager Leon See ( a fight fixer) and "bought" other managers, who were, I
think, honest guys. I have seen Carnera-Sharkey 2 and I don't think it was
fixed. Primo just overpowered Sharkey. That uppercut in the sixth round was
terrible, look at Sharkey's glance soon after the uppercut landed ! He looks
like someone who says "what the hell did hit me ?".Yes, Sharkey beat Carnera
in 1931, but, just a few hours before the fight, Primo had had a serious car
accident, in which he did faint. During his career Primo did beat some decent
fighter: Paulino Uzcudun twice (former European champion and beat Max Baer),
Tommy Loughran ( beat Max Baer and many other top contenders), Pierre Charles (
former European champion), King Levinsky, Jack Sharkey, Earnie Schaff
(unfortunately) and Walter Neusel. Yes, he never was as good as the best
Muhammad Ali', but was no freak either ( I have learnt "either" eh,eh).My
mom Anna wears a size 5 shoe ( 35 in Italy). |
|8/11/04 03:53:44 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|I know the jeremy Williams vs Brian
Neilson fight was fixed. It has been rumoured for a while and I had it confirmed
to me.|
|8/11/04 05:48:57 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Evren, what
is your source that J. Williams verses B. Neilson was fixed? I don't know
anything about what type of person Neilson is but Williams does not come accross
as someone who would go for that sort of thing.Massimo, my mother was in
Rome for a week in 1992 and she said the drivers there drive little cars very
fast all of the time. She was scared to cross the street! Of course, put
Southern California drivers in those same small streets and I am not sure it
would be any safer!|
|8/11/04 06:51:42 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Kent-The place where people
drive in the WORST way in the wordl is Neaples. Nobody cares about the rules in
Neaples. They drive like nuts. Everytime you decide to cross the street in
Neaples your life is on the line ! What did Ali' use to say ? "If you want to
fight me,... ". Well, the situation is the same.By the way, is Shaq 7'1"
with shoes off or not ?I'd like to know whether he is taller than
Wilt.Do you still remember who Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal is ? Now he lives in
Miami, a beautiful town in Florida where Bud Spencer and Terence Hill played
some movies. |
|8/11/04 07:08:09 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|I am NOT saying
that either one of these fights were fixed (since Tyson lost both of them) BUT
the referees in his fights against Lewis and Williams certainly looked like they
wanted Tyson to win. Emmanual Stewart said it best when he said "Lennox was
fighting two men that night, Tyson and the ref"|
|8/11/04 08:49:05 AM|Fran|Philly||plc7755@aol.com||||10|Quarry would have beaten
Norton in Prime vrs Prime, Lyle would have probably beaten him to. It would have
been a tough fight for Jerry but he did beat better fighters than Norton. |
|8/11/04 08:55:24 AM|Anonymous|The Real World||No thanks||||10| In April,
2004, boxing promoter Robert Mittleman pled guilty in federal court to felony