January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|3/21/03 10:01:35 AM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@yahoo.com||||10|Forest, yes i liked Bonavena too,i could
see jerry quarry getting frustrated,I could also see JERRY maybe even
stopping,oscar(He should have only been the third fighter in history to stop
CHUVALO)Athiough we will never know.Ross Brimer the thug guard, who shot
Bonavena-mysteriously is also dead, JIMMY ELLIS,for sure was good ,if not great
fighter for certain,He headined everywhere,and didn't dissapoint,like so many
other fighter's,he enavitably stayed around to long.|
|3/21/03 12:00:55 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Ellis was a very
good fighter. He really was a blown-up middleweight who beat some very tough
heavies. He put Bonavena on the deck twice which is very hard to do. Ellis
starting going downhill after Shavers koyed him in 1. After that he stated
loosing to guys like Kirkman. Ellis had a good sneaky right that hurt Frazier
for a second in their first fight. He was also Ali's sparring partner for years.
Does anyone remember Roy Tiger Williams? He was pretty tough. Not many guys
wanted to mess with Roy.Also, Manual Ramos, the Mexican heavy of the 60's
died a few years ago I just learned.|
|3/21/03 04:19:40 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|BIG JOHN:Manual Ramos is also dead?,do
you know the cause??I'LL JUST BET HE SUFFERED FROM DEMENTIA TOO.I wonder why
Ibar Arrington,and KIRKMAN,NEVER GOT IT ON UP IN SEATTLE,BONAVENA-KIRKMAN MIGHT
HAVE MADE FOR AN EXCITING BOUT,BET THE HOUSE ON BONAVENA!|
|3/21/03 05:42:39 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|John, You
are right Kirkman is lucky he never fought Liston, even if Liston was 70 years
old. In fairness to Kirkman most fighters should be considered lucky if they
didn't have to fight Liston. I was at the Liston-Wepner fight. Besides the
fight itself, what I remember was Muhammad Ali was at the fight.Roy
Williams, there is a name from the past! I still remember his fight with Earnie
Shavers. I guess anyone who saw it still remembers it! Larry Holmes in his
biography gives a good detailed look at the career of Roy Williams, Holmes
freely admits he did not want to fight him (although he did), and further states
that Williams was a good fighter who did not get the breaks. Roy Williams is a
another example of my belief that a fighter's record alone does not always tell
the whole story of a fighters ability. He did a stretch in prison for killing
someone, sorry but I don't know the details. I heard he was released from
prison a few years ago. John, Roy Williams won the NYC Golden Gloves
Heavyweight Open Division in 1966.|
|3/21/03 05:47:37 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|He was a protege of Joe Louis if I
remember correctly. Peace.|
|3/21/03 06:39:18 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Does anyone know the wherabouts of
Bob Satterfield? Is he still alive? He would be around 80 now I guess. He beat
among others :- Nick Barone(PTS10) Lee Oma(KO6) Harold Johnson(PTS10) Bob Baker
(WKO1)Julio Mederos(WKO2)(WPTS10)John Holman(WKO1)Nino Valdes(WPTS10)Johnny
Summerlin(WPTS10)Cleveland Williams(WKO3)What a puncher he was - a Light-Heavy
that could bomb out the big boys. He was a bit chinny however! Curtis
'Hatchetman) Sheppard is another from that era - he once knocked out Joey Maxim
in one round. A real mean dude!|
|3/21/03 09:05:12 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|John,
funny thing, I was thinking earlier today about other fighters who were good (in
the Roy Williams category), but never quite got over the hump. One of the guys
I thought of was Larry Middleton, and just a few seconds ago reviewing old posts
I see his name in one of your earlier posts. Middleton was another fighter who
had trouble getting fights, usually he had to take them on short notice or he
was put in against guys over his head. I only saw him fight once and he lost
to Dwayne Bobbick. I am sure Middleton was either, A. at the end of his career,
or B. he had "handcuffs" on. What I remember reading about Middleton years ago
was that he was a good boxer, not much of a puncher. I was alway feel for