January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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ad hair piece ? I once saw film of Cus D'Amato interviewing Ali and that was<br />
very entertaining. D'Amato was intelligent and entertaining and he more than<br />
held his own.|<br />
|10/18/03 08:53:43<br />
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Ali and Foreman<br />
both scored IQs in the 70s on tests they took, yet I doubt anyone listening to<br />
them doubted that they were highly intelligent men (as all top pro athletes<br />
are). <strong>The</strong>y were simply illiterate, spending no time in school when they were<br />
young, and all intelligence tests have at least some educational bias. Cossell<br />
was no dummy, but couldn't get the better of Ali because IMO Ali was smarter<br />
than he was, and had a quicker mind.Some people watched Cossell<br />
~because~ they hated him. <strong>The</strong>y loved to hate him, and in that respect, he was a<br />
national treasure, or maybe anti-treasure, like the anti-Christ. However, it's<br />
no accident that he died the same bitter man he was when he was in the<br />
spotlight. When he was no longer in broadcasting, I read that no one ever called<br />
or came to see him.I used the word "peon" loosely as it is often, to<br />
mean peasants or inferiors, which Cossell's manner indicated he thought almost<br />
everyone else but himself was, even the luminaries whose booties he cotinuously<br />
kissed.|<br />
|10/18/03 10:05:55 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Like Cosell<br />
or not, he was succesful. It was ironic that ABC television tried to use Dennis<br />
Miller as a commentator for Mondy Night Football and he used a lot of big words<br />
that went over most people's heads and it didn't work. I think that they did<br />
that because if it worked with Cosell, it would work again with Miller, wrong!|<br />
|10/18/03 10:51:11 AM|Massimo|Rome||5||||10|Paul-Thanks for your concern<br />
about me ! I have read RS's " shrill etc...) but I glance was enough to<br />
understand that that stuff wasn't for me. When, in a sentence composed by many<br />
words, all you can understand is "us" and "all", you,my friend, have to jump...<br />
Anyway, I have to thank RS for giving me some good English lessons. It's her<br />
merit if now I can dominate hard words like ain't, chump, whatcha, betcha<br />
etc.ABOUT BOXINGI have to come back to boxing (why not ?) because I<br />
fear someone is gonna kick my ass !PS: saying that I dominate that words is<br />
a little exaggerated ! Let's say that I understand that stuff a little<br />
better...I remember that Tyson once said that Joe Louis was the best<br />
heavyweight ever and that he couldn't see anyone beating him, includingAli'.<br />
|<br />
|10/18/03 11:42:59<br />
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|I was wondering<br />
about a couple of things I've observed about Ali in all his fights I've seen.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y aren't brand new aspects of his ring life, but they could possibly give a<br />
new slant to the fighter most think was the greatest heavy ever.First, I<br />
can't think of a single time in all his fights where Ali was hit with a follow<br />
up punch. Even when Frazier, Norton, Foreman, ~whomever~ nailed him and hurt<br />
him, even knocked him down (rare) none ever hit him with a second (followup)<br />
punch. His ability to keep his senses about him, even when in turmoil, was<br />
uncanny. While thinking about this re Ali, at the same time, I can't think of<br />
any ~other~ great who was ~not~ hit with multiple followups when they were<br />
really shook.Second, while we can all agree that he had extraordinary<br />
speed for a heavy, and an unequaled bag of tricks even when he slowed down, did<br />
his also unequaled ability to take a punch allow him to aspire to greatness that<br />
his boxing fundamentals wouldn't have, had he had just an average chin?|<br />
|10/18/03 04:28:29 PM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|Primo Carnera was another example of<br />
a great champion with that quality ! I know that very well because I have seen<br />
all his 103 professional fights ))))|<br />
|10/18/03 10:46:27 PM|Bob Bumbera|Ho Chi Minh City,<br />
Vietnam||renfbera@aol.com||||10|"Da Preem" was a great fighter, 'rassler and a<br />
darn good actor too. Maybe , if he was around today he would have even beat