January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|3/17/03 01:00:51 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Saw a clip of LaMotta as an amateur
the other day. He was really podgy looking. I think he fought as an amateur at
Light-Heavyweight.|
|3/17/03 08:03:26 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|It is
official, Evren and Bob are a couple of "WISEGUYS" AND "LUNKHEADS," KNUCK!
KNUCK! KNUCK! Stooges, something Max Kellerman will never be here in
Quarryville!|
|3/17/03 08:47:06 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|John,
thats a hard one to pick Zale-LaMotta. Another hard one to pick would be Dick
Tiger and LaMotta, or Tiger-Zale. LaMotta was very cute with the head,
shoulders, crouching (a lot like Marciano, except no great punch), but still
anyone who goes straight in on Dick Tiger. Wow! Then again it could be a
boring fight a lot of clinches. Who knows? Styles make a fight.John, about
2 years ago I studied some films of Oscar Bonavena, and I was surprised. Oscar
was not the crude slugger I mistakenly remembered from years gone past. He
actually jabbed, and hooked off the jab, albeit he was clumsy, but he knew the
fundamentals of boxing. He had good stamina, and a lot of balls, and he didn't
cut. He lost to Ellis pretty easily. But most other guys had a hard time with
him, including, Ali, Lyle, Frazier twice. I think Jerry Quarry would have his
hands full with Bonavena. Jerry would not knock him out,and Oscar had a style
that discouraged a lot of opponents. Like I was saying styles make a fight, and
Bonavena was all wrong for Jerry. Once again because of their styles it may
have been a boring fight. Oscar was much better than Chuvalo. I still believe
Jerry Q lost to Chuvalo because Zack Clayton gave him a fast count (he did the
same to Foreman against Ali, although it made no difference, the result was
inevitable). Jerry was getting discouraged against Chuvalo, and there was still
3 rounds left in the fight. Jerry may have stopped him in the next round on cuts
but, that's only conjecture. God bless Chuvalo, he always came to fight, and
gave 100%. One more note about Bonavena and Chuvalo. I have the film of their
fight, Bonavena knocked Chuvalo down but the ref called it a slip. |
|3/17/03 09:32:58 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|THEN AGAIN FOREST,QUARRY-BONAVENA MIGHT
BE A CLASSIC,I STILL THINK IT WOULD BAY A JERRY WIN, FOR YOU SEE THEIR
INTANGIBLES, JERRY WAS 7-0 VS THE TOP TEN WHOM NEVER WORE A BELT,(ALBEIT CHUVALO
WAS NOT IN THEY OFFICIAL TOP TEN AT THE TIME HE TOOK ON JERRY).SPENCER #1,MATHIS
#6,FOSTER #1,BODELL#8,MIDDLETON#7,LYLE #3,SHAVERS #6. I THINK JERRY WOULD HAVE
APPROACHED THIS PARTICULAR BOUT DIFFERANTLY,AND COUNTER PUNCHED OSCAR TO DEATH,
LIKE HE SHOULD HAVE DONE TO FRAZIER,DON'T GET ME WRONG I HAVE ALL THE RESPECT
FOR RINGO IN THE WORLD,YUR RIGHT HE WAS DAMN CRAFTY IN AN AWKWARD SORT OF
WAY,AND COULD NEVER BEAT ANYONE FROM THE TOP 5 UP.THEY WERE SIGNED IN 73'FOR THE
GARDEN, AND RINGO PULLED OUT,SOMEONE AT THE TIME SAID HE WAS DUCKING QUARRY, I
THINK THE REAL REASON,HE NEEDED MORE TIME TO TRAIN.|
|3/17/03 10:48:39 PM|Keith White|Seattle, WA||QUARRYJKW@AOL.com||||10|Would
Jerry Quarry in his prime KO the Mike Tyson of the last ten years???? I think
Jerry in his prime (Lyle,Shavers,Alexander wins) would paste a Tyson of the last
ten years.... Jerry loved it when punchers would go into him with average
defenses.... This is why big George Foreman didn't want anything to do with
Jerry.|
|3/18/03 07:01:43 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|FOREST: In all
honestly, I find Quarry-Bonavena too close to call, but if I had to bet, I would
have bet on Jerry. But I do remember Oscar koing German champ Karl Mildenburger
who was pretty good. I think the worst Oscar looked was against Ellis where he
went down twice. Oscar's best fight was his loss to Frazier in their first
fight. It really could have been called a draw. Oscar was also having a hard
time with Blue Lewis in Argentina until the ref came to his rescue and
disqualifed Al for some occult reason. I rate Dick Tiger as one of the strongest
non-heavys of all time. A real tough workman and a class guy. I believe the