January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

! Cristoforo Colombo should be your number 1 hero...Shaq should be just the
number 2 !|
|10/16/03 02:37:15 AM|Hubie Albrecht|San Jose, CA||halbrecht@aol.com
||||9|Here's what you have to believe to conclude that Mike Tyson would have
beaten Joe Louis: 1) Tyson with his mediocre defense would have
withstood Louis's powerful and proven punching power.2) Tyson, who fought
mostly run of the mill opponents, is simply better somehow than Louis, who also
fought mostly run of the mill opponents. 3) The reputedly superior
equipment, training methods, conditioning and nutrition of Tyson would enable
him somehow to dominate and defeat Louis with his inferior stuff. 4) Tyson's
so-called ferocity would intimidate and overcome Louis. 5) Tyson at 5'10"
and 220 would physically dominate and overpower Louis at 6'1" and 205. 6)
Tyson's pattern of rushing out to try for a first round KO being his choice,
unlike any other prominent boxer in recent history, would also prevail over Joe
Louis in a first round KO, even though Louis never in his career lost a fight in
the first round. 7) Evander Holyfield figured out Tyson and owned him, but
Joe Louis could and would not. In my opinion, not a single one of these
beliefs is supportable. While they are both great champions, I believe Louis
would have won a single fight, or about 8 out 10 if they fought that often. He
was fast, shrewd, a superb boxer, and packed a wallop with either hand. Sooner
or later, he figured out almost everybody, and then knocked each one out. He
would have been a great champion at the turn of the century or in 2003, when he
would have easily trained up to 220 or more. In his day, when boxers fought
every other week usually, skill and speed were considered more important than
size. Louis would have had a good chance against any champion, before or after
him, including Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Dempsey or Marciano. He might have lost or
won, but he would have been in every fight. He was a great champion, fought all
contenders, and I don't understand why anyone would sincerely argue otherwise. |
|10/16/03 03:26:20 AM|Ed|Cicero N Y||mooseygoop@aol.com||||10|Tyson had 3 phases
to his career. Phase 1, when he was focused on boxing and with trainer Kevin
Rooney he was a great fighter. His combination of power and hand speed we're
unmatched, (Ali and Patterson maybe matched his hand speed but not his power.
Liston and Foreman his power but not his speed). He had excellent head movement
and a very good chin. His fighting discipline was also more focused. He lived to
fight.Phase 2, after Kevin Rooney, was the start of his downfall. Blame it
on a bad marriage, extremely poor trainers who couldn't handle Mike ( I'll never
forget the way his trainers handled the ice bag when Tyson fought Douglas), Don
King's antics causing resentment with Mike, or Mikes over active sex
drive..these things all contributed to his fall from greatness. Mike was always
a loose cannon and needed strong people around him to keep him in line. He
didn't have it.The third phase was his after prison life. He came out of
jail very resentful and unfocused in boxing. He never would have bitten
Holyfield's ear early on in his career. He pulled one bad stunt after another
but he was making huge money and still knocking out most guys very quickly. Even
today at this stage theres still very few fighters that could beat him ( but
with the current state of the heavyweight division thats not saying very much).
So when I judge Mike Tyson I use the first phase of his career. He would
have beaten most ex-champs easily and would have had an excellent chance against
anyone in history.|
|10/16/03 03:53:33 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||Kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Massimo,
these questions were for your amusmement (and mine too). You are wrong!!!
Columbus did not discover the Americas!!! The ancestors of the present day
Native Americans, also known as Indians because Columbus claimed he was in
India, came to the Americas and settled here thousands of years before any
Europeans ever set foot here. It is believed that the Bering Strait,which
seperates Alaska in the United States and Siberia in Russia, was a land mass and
the people originally came from Asia. They slowly settled the continents of