January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|9/21/03 10:54:11
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Steve -
I've heard a number of songs over the years that reminded me of Frazier
fighting, but Jaws hadn't occurred to me - perfect! Boxing is a totally unique
sport. Teams and individual players in the big four sports can play poorly, and
it's OK. With fighters, it's different. Someone has an off night, gets caught,
and all of a sudden, it's as if fans caught him in bed with their wife! He's a
bum, always will be a bum, probably always ~was~ a bum. Now Ali was a little
different. People, judges included, continued to see an Ali who had many years
before left the building, never to return again. One fight can start the
frightfully rapid erosion of a brilliant boxer's skills. One punch can do it
sometimes. Fans aren't always aware of it, and retro judging of an entire career
based on some moment when this clarity becomes apparent, is unfair. Ali and
Frazier are the only two elite fighters (maybe someone else can think of others,
I can't) who ever came back from the bleakness of decline and turned in one more
brilliant performance before saying goodbye forever, and maybe it took each
other to produce a mind tyranny that transported their bodies beyond what they
might have been capable of against anyone else. They may even have surprised
themselves in retrospect, I don't know. Anyway. Frazier was brilliant in every
way, and on his best night, only a handful of fighters ever could hope to even
stand a chance against him, with no guarantees of winning. I would certainly put
Joe, Ali and George as my choices for top three all time greats, though I'd have
to think hard about the order. On this subject, I read something very poignant
that Ali said, showing that all of his thought processes haven't been dulled by
the hammers of Mars. He said, "The world has our fights, Joe Frazier has my
brain." Shiver.|
|9/21/03 11:07:36 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||8|why does everybody
seem to think that joe frazier would do so good? i could just see him in there
today looking like a little T-Rex. he's almost a jr. heavyweight himself , like
patterson and quarry. Cooney was an embarrassment to all fighters big and small,
dumb, akward, stupid looking jerk! little mike spinks took him down, no excuse
for this jerk! coo! coo!|
|9/22/03 01:45:19 AM|Massimo|Rome||g||||10|Kookoo-Come on, kookoo.
Holyfield almost killed Tyson ? Do you remember rounds 10 and 11of the first
fight ? Foreman looked hurt just 1 time in their 1991 fight , but not so badly
hurt !Foreman was able to hurt Holyfield, Tyson made Holyfield the tickling
!PS; pizza is very good, mostly " Pizza napoletana ".|
|9/22/03 08:06:30 AM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||8|whats with you
massimo, foreman was never in that fight, just looking for that one big punch.
tyson on the other hand had a chance and was doing good in the early rds.
holyfield would have never beat mike tyson if he had not been off for 3+ years.
the only person that beats mike tyson is himself. lennox lewis also fought the
watered down version of mike tyson. REMEMBER MISSIMO, DOMINOS DELIVERS.COO
COO|
|9/22/03 09:04:10 AM|Massimo|Rome||i||||10|KooKooWhat does it mean
"Dominos deliveres" ? May youfind please another way to say this thing ? 3+
years ? Foreman was out for 10 years. In my opinion, Foreman is clearly ahead
Tyson in boxinghistory ! Even Ali' was 3+ years out of the ringbut when
came back was still a champion. When Tyson came back was a bum that I, Massimo
Giulio Leonardo Cini, would have been able to beat. He disappointed me so much !
After his come back he fought just two very good fights: Frank Bruno
andAndrew Golota but he was even able to trasform thesecond in NC
assuming mariujana !|
|9/22/03 01:31:04 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||8|i can't argue with
someone who does not speak proper english. stop backing foreman , he never had
the speed or talent of tyson. may have hit harder but not by much. you, kent,