January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

NICE GUY|
|12/15/02 11:04:39 PM|Kent Appel|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Welcome
Phillip, What do you mean you were not impressed with what Jerry was taught?
You mention he was a brillant counter puncher. He must have learned that from
somewhere. If not from Flores early on, then where? You are right, Jerry was a
great guy. He was down to earth and he didn't act like he was above his fans.
He was very easy to talk to. Jimmy D, I am not a fan of Clayton at all. In
fact just the opposite. Our own Mr. Jimmy Q said he had questions about his
intregrity. This doesn't surprise me. But like I said, Jerry did lose the
Chuvalo fight fair and square. Any other Ref. would have counterd Jerry out
too.|
|12/16/02 08:12:01 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Clayton was not
saint, but I have seen the Chuvalo-Quarry tape a few times and frankly Clayton
did nothing wrong. Jerry should have gotten up and he did not. I don't for one
minute think Jerry dogged it, there was no quit in him. I think the punch
disoriented him to the point of either not hearing the count or not having the
awareness to realize that time was running and to get up when he should have.
Foreman claims that in Zaire, Dick Saddler asked him for $25,000 to give to
Clayton to make sure he allows Foreman to fight his fight. Foreman said he gave
Saddler the cash but he has no idea of if it ever reached Clayton. Obviously
Foreman didn't trust Saddler either, the implication being perhaps he just kept
it. I don't know much about Saddler except that i believe he worked with Liston
at the end of his career.|
|12/16/02 10:35:10 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|I have heard
other stories that Clayton was not above taking side money also. Since I have
no proof,other than my own feeling that it is true because differing sources say
the same thing, I will just leave it at that, that it may be true. |
|12/16/02 04:34:28 PM|tim|new york||~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~||||10|I will always
remember with joy the thrills Jerry gave me as a 12 year-old kid. I saw his
fight with Foster in the Felt Forem in NY and it was a great night for Quarry
fans. I also saw on TV his fight with Chuvalo but can't seem to remember much
except for Don Dunfey's anti-Quarry bias. Can anyone help me remember this
fight? Was Jerry really kicking his butt for 6 rounds. I remember Boxing
Illustrated in their fight report saying that "Chuvalo was rocked back on his
heels from a wicked one-two to the button in the first few moments of the
fight". Chuvalo sure looked a mess after the fight. Also any recommendations
on where to get Jerry's fights on tape? Sure would have liked to see Jerry
fight Bonavena. I give the edge to Jerry in that one but Oscar was one tough
hombre! By the way in Ring Magazine Joe Frazier was quoted as saying after the
first Quarry fight " Quarry is a hard puncher but I was tagged with stiffer
punches from Bonavena and Ramos" Interesting comment from Smokin' Joe.|
|12/17/02 08:08:09 PM|Jeffery Smith|New Orleans||jls@runbox.com||||7|Quarry was
having no trouble hitting the stationary, slow Chuvalo and got distracted, or at
least it appeared that way to me. Chuvalo threw a roundhouse punch that hit
Jerry above the temple, jolting his equilibrium. He lost his balance and fell
backwards a bit. Trying to regain his balance, he took about 15 very rapid steps
backward (sort of like the knockdown of James Toney by Roy Jones) and fell on
his butt near the ropes on the other side of the ring. Realizing that he was
still a bit dizzy, he stayed on one knee and jumped up at the count of 10 or
even a bit later. Zack Clayton had to count him out. As Ring magazine said way
back then, "Jerry blew it". He had, in fact, knocked Chuvalo back on his heels
just prior to the knockdown.Before the fight, my cousin said "Why are
you guys watching boxing? It's all fixed!". We said "No, Elena, this is the real
thing!". When the fight was over, she walked in and said "Who won?" We said
"Aw, this is all fixed!". :-)It wasn't fixed. Zack was right (but not a
great ref). My votes for the two worst refs in recent history: Johnny LoBiaco
(who let Jose Torres' corner carry him back to his stool instead of counting him