January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

drug use to get bigger? Evander Holyfield, who has always been accused of some
kind of drug use, could barley keep 190 on his body then he’s fighting at 212
looking like Kenny Norton. You can name several others also. The muscle
recovery thing Evren mentioned maybe the biggest reason for drug use by
fighters. A big money fight coming up, you pull or tear a muscle in training,
the right steroid will heal the injury faster and get you back in training. I’m
not saying Chris Byrd or Evander Holyfield have used drugs either. When I was
in my early twenties I went from 185 to a rock solid 215 just from weight
training and good nutrition, so I can understand how an elite athlete can get
bigger and stronger without drug use. Also, there is so much money in boxing
these days, I think some fighters will resort to drug use to try and get an edge
on the competition. I think the odd part is, in boxing it rarely works. |
|9/18/04 04:04:07 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|I would thing that it would also give
fighters more energy for training also. I remember when I used to go to my local
gym there would be guys in the tolets injecting themselves. A while later they
would be working out like some beast - really sad. These guys were so agressive.
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|9/18/04 11:29:50 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|But the one
thing steroids couldn't do is help the mental aspect of the game. The drug
would put the fighter into an aggresive rage and this is the sort of thing that
would play into the hands of a thinking fighter like Muhammed Ali.One of
the reasons Ali would make fun of opponents, make up silly names for them, and
to make round predictions for the knockout, was to get the fighters angry so
that he would have better control of them in the ring|
|9/18/04 05:55:16 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|I honestly think that Ali' would have
had some problem against Wilt. Why ? Because he couldn't have jabbed Wilt and he
couldn't have punched Wilt directly to the face. He should have gone to the body
first but Ali' wasn't a body puncher ! I'm not saying that Ali' would have lost,
I think he would have found a way to win, I'm just saying that it wouldn't have
been an easy fight. On the other hand, since styles make fights, i think that
Giorgio Eduardo would have beaten Wilt very quickly because he was a great body
puncher. Too bad that Ali' and Wilt didn't fight ! That one would have been
really a cool, unforgettable fight ! A fight for the ages !PS; probably
Wilt couldn't take a punch.|
|9/19/04 02:59:42 AM|a|b||c||||10|Wilt v Ali ? TIIIIMMMMBEEEEEER !!!!!!|
|9/19/04 07:06:31 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Why did De la Hoya go to the canvas
in the ninth round of his fight with Hopkins ? That wasn't an hard punch, it
was only a body punch that (or which) I would have taken without blinking.
Hopkins was clearly ahead atthe time of the knockout.|
|9/19/04 09:57:10 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Massimo, body
punches can be very devastating if they are in the right spot. It was a punch
to the liver and apparently at the right angle.J. Quarry was knocked
down by a left hook to the body by Frazier in their second fight and it is one
of the only times he didn't get up and win the fight. He beat the count but he
was stopped on his feet in the next round. Believe me, if Jerry was around
today, I am sure he would tell you it was a legitimate knockdown.|
|9/19/04 02:50:23 PM|Margo Dydek|Roma||4||||10|Soon after being knocked out by
Hopkins, Oscar said a word of 4 letters. I swear !|
|9/19/04 09:35:12 PM|Fan|America||OK||||10|Expert, If you think that the
Frazier II knockdown was not an anomaly, and featured anything close to Jerry in
his prime, go ask those who know better. In '69 he would have laughed that off
body shot. Maybe a valid general point about body punching - but a
really bad, and (considering the site where you have tried to make your bones) a
wholly inappropriate example in support thereof. |
|9/20/04 12:42:17 AM|Kent Appel|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Fan, I
was not attempting to judge how much Jerry had left at the time of Frazier 2 as
compared to his skills in his prime. I was just using it as an example of a