January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

taken that book !|
|11/16/04 03:58:06 PM|Angelo|DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Dating back to his
fights with Big Daddy Bowe, Golata has shown flashes of ability. He's also
shown erratic performances (i.e. the blowout loss to Lewis) and the inability to
hold his composure, even while winning. If he could stay cool, stay focused and
motivated---he'd be a possibility to take any of today's horrible heavies.|
|11/17/04 01:23:18 PM|charles|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|the heavyweight
division is about as thrilling as a hog calling contestin alasaka.|
|11/17/04 03:51:56 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Charles:
As boring as they are and as poorly as they perform compared to the class of the
70's, I'll still watch a top ten heavyweight bout over any similar bout of a
lighter weight class, especially anything below middleweights. I like the big
guys who wind up and throw bombs. When a 220 pound guy hits someone, or
something, flush, the impact is the essence of "KNOCKOUT." Conversely, when two
talented bantamweights are going at it, it seems like bunches of pitter-pat,
lots of dancing and not a lot of knockout power. I know that the heavies tend
to hold and wrestle, which is also clumsy. And if you can't sleep, put in the
"Best of John Ruiz" video and snore away. But by and large, I still like the
heavier weight action. |
|11/17/04 05:17:27 PM|Massimo|Roma||andre'.com||||10|Angelo-Do you think
the 217 Giacomo Toney who beat Holyfield could hit harder than the 157 Giacomo
Toney who beat Michele Nunn in 1991 ? Or was he only more slow and more wealthy
? Could Muhammed Ali'hit harder than Tommaso Hearns, Marvin Hagler, Zucchero Ray
Robinson or Roberto Duran ? Does the n.100 heavyweight in the wordl hit harder
than the n.1 middleweight ? |
|11/17/04 07:21:52 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Sheri, I am
donating some money to Children's Hospital Los Angeles in memory of your mother
Brenda. I figure helping sick children get well is a good holiday gift. Was
she also from Paso Robles, Ca?|
|11/18/04 08:56:09 AM|charles|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|angelo, i agree
with you. we likely never see the likes of quarry, frazier, ali, norton,
shavers, lyle, foreman, ect. again in the division as agroup.|
|11/18/04 03:24:04 PM|Angelo|DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Massimo: Sure, you
bring up some exceptions, such as Duran and Hagler. Note that my cutoff was
Middleweight, but sure, some wetherweight and lightweight fighters in history
have been great power punches. But yes, I think an in-prime, hard hitting
heavyweight, even someone not in the top 10, would dispatch of a top
middleweight in most cases.|
|11/20/04 02:16:02 AM|Noam|(-)||(-)||||10|Angelo, I agree that heavies are more
spectacular and therefore easier to watch and entertain us, but I wonder whether
we don't appreciate the lower weights sufficiently.Heavies certainly
load up and throw bombs, but they throw less of them a round. There's fewer
combinations and heavies tend to rest at various stages of each round.I
also wonder whether heavies have less skills as well. Heavies tend to rely on
raw power rather than fine skills and - apart from a couple of notables like Ali
and Holmes - raw power usually wins (like Liston over Patterson, Frazier over
Ellis).It is also a fact that the largest proportion of the population
is closer in average size to middle weights rather than heavies. This would mean
that, statistically, there are more competitors in the lighter ranks and,
therefore, more robust and elite competition. Sometimes all you need to
have to be competitive in the heavies is bulk - whether muscle or flab - rather
than brilliant skills and reflexes. I am sort of being 'devil's
advocate' on what you said about the heavies and am thinking out loud.|
|11/20/04 03:45:02 AM|Ed|Cicero N Y||mooseygoop@aol.com||||10|The latest issue
of Boxing Digest Magazine has a big article on Jerry Quarry and his family. It
goes into a lot of things we talked about here.|
|11/20/04 04:21:32 AM|Steven Keaton|Keatonland||warrencoolidge.com||||10|After