January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

fast when he does start to age as he has had some tough fights, verses Toney and
verses Mesi, to name a couple. Jirov won't be aging in this one though.
An ace in Moorer's cap is Jirov does tend to cut. I am not sure if it
is because he is a white fighter, but he does seem to bust up. Do white
fighters tend to have softer skin, I don't know but I think this is Moorer's
best chance at winning. Jirov normally throws a lot of punches per round and he
takes a hell of a shot, so I don't see Mirror winning by decision or even by
knockout. |
|12/8/04 12:38:15 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Guys around
the gym, white and black, seem to think the white fighters cuts are worse. They
might cut more easily, but the gym rats seem to think it's not so much that the
initial cut opens faster, but instead, that once a cut is started, it gets worse
a lot faster on some of the white fighters. Who knows, my comments are by no
means based on anything scientific. I've seen horrendous cuts on black, white
Asian and Hispanic fighters. Maybe the blood just shows up better against white
skin! |
|12/8/04 01:44:59 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Moorer probably thought that Foreman
was just fighting him for a pay check too, but he soon found out otherwise. But
Moorer hasn't got Big George's pride, so I suspect he is in it for the money and
I pick the other guy.White people probably have softer skin. We sun burn
more easily etc, so it probably makes sense that we whities cut more easily as
well. Remember the middleweight Vito Antuofermo ? From memory, he used to soak
his skin in brine to toughen it up.Also, someone once told me that black
guys have more rounded features, like Ali, Foreman, et al, that is less likely
to cut because punches slide off of them. I'm wondering whether whites have more
protruding cheeks and eye brow bones that makes us more cutable. We get black
eyes more easily, too.On the other hand, and I'm not trying to be funny,
I think blacks cut more around the mouth, especially the bottom lip. |
|12/8/04 02:26:54 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Angelo, I
think you are right in that it seems cuts are worse on white fighters because
red blood is more noticed on lighter skin. Once a fighter is cut, it has always
seemed to me that cuts are just as bad regardless of the skin
color.Jerry Q sure had trouble with cuts and Joe Frazier didn't.
Interesting what if, if Jerry would have been hit with the same shots he hit
Smoking Joe with in their first fight, would Jerry had been cut? Jerry hit Joe
with some tremendous shots. We can't therefore say that if the answer is yes,
then it applies to an entire race of fighters as we are just comparing two
fighters here. But I do think Jerry likely would have been cut by the shots he
hit Joe with. Vassiliy Jirov does get cut in a lot of his fights but he
never has been stopped on cuts and he has stopped black fighters on cuts
himself. I was just giving my opinon on Michael Moorer's best chance of
winning. Because even if Jirov hasn't lost by cuts before, this is something
that doesn't get better with time and it could at some point start effecting his
career.I have never noticed one race of figthers having more of or worse
cuts to their lips. I think this is just a perception of the poster's, not
something factual.|
|12/8/04 03:34:25 AM|Massimo Cini da Pisa|Roma||andre' the midget.com||||10|I'm
going to go to a Moorer fight Thursday night.This fight won't be fought in
the USA, it will be fought in my home, in Roma. ESPN Classic is gonna ( gonna
and not pantaloni) show FOREMAN-MOORER and I'm looking forward to it. My
prediction ? I see Michele winning the early rounds, but I think Giorgio's big
punch will decide the fight in the later ones. I think the Moorer-Jirov fight is
a nonsense. Does Moorer still need a payday with all the money he got ? He is
not going to whip Vitali. He could win one of the 43 belts around, maybe the WMS
belt but how much glory there is in this ? Lamon Brewster and and John " Not too
exciting" Ruiz have belts but this doesn't make them better than Jerry Quarry by
any means. Michele's career is already over. He should dedicate his life to