January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

pulverized George Foreman had they fought when Jerry was still in his late 20's.
Jerry never had problems with big sluggers (although I remember his getting
nailed with one big Mac Foster right hand a bit before kayoing Foster). Jerry
walked through slow sluggers like Ron Lyle, Mac Foster, and Earnie Shavers. And
pounded the stuffing out of a big fast puncher, Buster Mathis. Jerry turned out
to be everything that Gerry Cooney wasn't. His tendency to cut is what cost him
just about every fight.I have many fond memories of Jerry. Vastly
underrated in the big picture of heavyweight boxing.|
|12/5/02 02:55:14 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|George was NOT just a big slugger !|
|12/5/02 09:02:01 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|George was a
great one, Jerry was a very,very good one. George would have won.|
|12/5/02 12:12:29 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|Ventura
California||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|I have to agree on one thing, BIG GEORGE
would have definetly been favored, about 12-5 odds,Seemed like he had a little
"extra" from the punchers that were mentioned, I still say the Lyle bout was the
most exciting ever,at a cookout of that FOREMAN-LYLE BOUT, in the SAN JOAQUIN
VALLEY,CA.Even the ladies were into that crazy bout, and betting!!!I SURE wished
JERRY AND GEORGE WOULD HAVE GOT IT ON IN 1974! It would have answered all the 30
years of questions,I wouldn't have minded Bonavena getting in there with BIG
GEORGE.Besides i would have liked to see Jerry in there with GEORGE FOREMAN,
rather than FRAZIER,Anyone who saw JOE INTERVIEWED BEFORE HE WENT IN THE RING
WITH JERRY QUARRY KNEW HE WAS GOING TO DEFINETLY WIN THAT NIGHT,TAKE CARE!|
|12/5/02 01:17:21 PM|Mark Sargeant|UK||lpu00mts@reading.ac.uk||||10|Jerry was an
excellent fighter and a wonderful asset to boxing during its toughest era.
However, to say he would beat George really is going a bit over the top. Foreman
was desperately formidable and with Jerry's cuts and slight inconsistency,
alongside Foreman's power, I really do think that there could only be one
winner. Jerry at his best would have given him one hell of a fight but it simply
wouldn't be enough-similar to Frazier. Outside Ali and Louis, Foreman, Frazier,
Holmes make up the next category, with the likes of Holyfield, Norton, Tyson,
Lewis, Bowe, Walcott, Marciano , Charles. I would put Jerry in this group along
with a few others which is one hell of a complement to a tremendous fighter-but
he simply was not in a higher one with George.|
|12/5/02 01:46:54 PM|Steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Jimmie D.,I won 25.00
on the Quarry vs Lyle fight.I've mentioned before that I thought it was my
alltime favorite fight.You say you saw it during the day.I remember watching it
at night.It must be the time zone difference between Cal. and N.J.Based on that
fight,I allways thought the same caliber of perfomance from Jerry would have at
least gotten him a decision over Forman.I remember Mike Nixon very well.He was a
very muscular,strong fighter,but I saw him get knocked by two fighters,weirdly
enough,both named Davis.The one,I think his name was Indian Red Davis,knocked
Mike out twice!! I believe these fights where shown here out of New York.I can
remember getting real frustrated with Mike,since in both fights he was beating
the heck out of Davis,and then goy caught,and KO'D. |
|12/5/02 05:33:50 PM|Jeffery Smith|New Orleans||jls@runbox.com||||6|Nixon's foes
were Art Davis and Indian George Davis, as I remember. Back to Foreman, anyone
who saw his fight with Lyle knows that he was slow, and that he could be
counterpunched. Frazier was not a counterpuncher, and his style did not work
well against Foreman. Lyle lost a lopsided decision to Quarry when he was a few
years younger than when he floored Foreman twice. Lyle's problem was that he was
so muscle-bound, he couldn't hold his arms up after 20 seconds of trying to
finish a guy off. Jerry was a good finisher who didn't waste a lot of
haymakers.Keep in mind that, in the Lyle fight, Foreman tried (for the
first time) a left jab and a straight right in hopes of getting his punches home
a bit faster. Didn't work at all, so he stopped doing it. I think Jerry would
have beat him to the punch.George Foreman was much more than a slugger?
Not in the fights I saw. No jabbing, no counterpunching, no leg movement, no