January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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Tyson----I actually picked him to beat Lewis. But now, I'm thinking he might<br />
not be anywhere near the fighter we all thought he was. |<br />
|8/16/02 06:07:08 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|I feel Tyson was and is perhaps still<br />
a great fighter. He may have not beaten all time greats (larry Holmes not<br />
counting)but look at how many decent fighters he beat - you can argue that some<br />
were past their primes or some not really that good but you'll find a lot of<br />
Tysons opponents done miles better with other opposition.Trevor Berbick -<br />
demolished in 2Pinklon Thomas - demolished in 6Bonecrusher - easy<br />
pointsTucker - pointsBiggs - demolished in 7Holmes - demolished in 4<br />
(no one has done that since)Tubbs - demolished in 2Spinks - demolished<br />
in 1Carl Williams - demolished in 1Bruno - demolished in 5 & 3Alex<br />
Stewart - demolished in 1Ruddock - stooped in 7 and pointsSeldon -<br />
ghosted in 1Golota - destroyed in 3 (later no contest)Wow, I think.<br />
Tyson is a great fighter.Nobody had such an easy time with this amount of<br />
quality opposition.Opinions please|<br />
|8/17/02 11:36:50 AM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA<br />
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|DEAR EVREN: I am forced to go with<br />
ANGELO, on this one, he just made points that i have said all along, do you<br />
honestly think, the"greatest" ALI would have ducked "merciless" RAY<br />
MERCER,RIDDICK BOWE,GEORGE FOREMAN,TOMMY MORRISON,TIM WITHERSPOON,DAVID TUA,THE<br />
KLITISHKO'S,AND THERE ARE MORE, ALI WOULD HAVE FOUGHT AND BEATEN THESE GUYS<br />
TWICE,IRONICALLY THERE IS ONE THING ALL THESE FIGHTER'S HAVE IN COMMON (THEY ARE<br />
BIG PUNCHER'S).SEEMS LIKE THERE IS SOMETHING TO THIS AND TYSON BEING ALLEGEDLY<br />
BROKE, HE WOULD HAVE MADE MORE MONEY, FIGHTING THESE GUYS, THEN THE CREAM PUFFS<br />
YOU MENTIONED,FRANK BRUNO,TREVOR BERBICK,RUDDOCK,BONE CRUSHER,MICHAEL<br />
SPINKS,WERE SCARED TO DEATH, THEY WERE BEATEN BEFORE THE BELL,RUDDOCK COULD HAVE<br />
SMOKED HIM,HAD HE NOT BEEN SO INTIMADATED, OKAY LETS SAY HE WOULD HAVE RUN<br />
ROUGHSHOT, ON THEM ALL,HOW COME WE DID NOT SEE IT,PEOPLE STILL TALK ABOUT<br />
FOREMAN/QUARRY, I ONLY WISHED JERRY WOULD HAVE GOT THE SHOT THAT HE DEFINIETLY<br />
DESERVED, IT WOULD HAVE ANSWERED ALL THE 30 YEARS OF QUESTIONS,BOY TIME FLY,S<br />
WHEN YOUR HAVING FUN|<br />
|8/17/02 01:11:20 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|What annoys me is that Tyson's<br />
opponents suddenly become 'poor' after Tyson wiped them out. You heard 'nuff<br />
about Spinks, Biggs and Ruddock before Mike dealt with them. <strong>The</strong>n they were<br />
suddenly chinny or scared. tyson was a great great fighter. Is Marciano also<br />
not a great for all the fighters he avoided - I think no ! Is Dempsey not a<br />
great for not facing the brilliant black fighters of his time. Is Holmes not a<br />
great for defending against moderate opposition and a few good'ns past their<br />
best. I am not saying he is ali - no one is - but a great - definitely. Could<br />
have and should have been one of the best ever ! He dealt with so many good<br />
fighters easily and has only had three losses by opponents who were better on<br />
the night. He is past his best now and will never reclaim his past glories. He<br />
will forever be remembered both good and bad.|<br />
|8/17/02 03:00:32 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Tyson at his<br />
very best would have been tough to beat in any era. <strong>The</strong> problem with him is his<br />
screwball personality and it is because of this that he squandered his talent.<br />
His prime was not very long, about 3 years from 1986 to 1989 and he did beat<br />
some good fighters during this time but after this he wasn't the same anymore.<br />
By the time Douglas got a hold of him the problems in his life had taken their<br />
toll. I hate to pass judgement on any person and there may be some good in the<br />
man somewhere inside of him but, I have always hated the term that is often said<br />
after a fight that the best man won the fight. IN TYSON'S CASE, THE BEST MAN<br />
MOST OF THE TIME WOULD NEVER WIN THE FIGHT AS MOST OF HIS OPPONENTS ARE PROBABLY<br />
BETTER MEN THAN HIM BUT NOT BETTER FIGHTERS. |<br />
|8/17/02 06:04:56 PM|Paul|Montreal||drolpaul@aol.com||||10|Here's an item I just<br />
came across on another site that I thought I'd share. Rick Farris, who would<br />
become a main-event lightheavyweight from L.A, said the following about a gym
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