January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

going for a knockout and he had very little left except for his great heart
after this round. No one else comments when I say the third round of
Quarry/Norton is one of the best rounds of heavyweight action I have ever seen.
The two go toe to toe for almost the entire round. Jerry controlled the action
landing more punches but Norton landing damaging blows on the cut. |
|6/19/02 12:58:03 PM|p.drolet|Montreal||drolpaul@aol.com||||10|When the call
came for Norton, Jerry was living the good life in Hawaii. He had less than two
weeks to prepare which wasn't nearly enough for the likes of Ken Norton. He was
woefully ill-prepared. He was soft at 207. Norton admits that Jerry stung him
in the first round. Jerry told Clancy between the second and third rounds that
he was going to try to knock Norton out in the third because he knew he didn't
have the staying power to go the distance. Kent has already alluded to how
thrilling that third round was. I'm with Joe: prime vs. prime Norton-Quarry is
a pick-em fight. |
|6/20/02 11:33:20 AM|Bob Bumbera|NC ||renfbera@aol.com||||10|I too beleive Jerry
would have KO'ed Norton. Kenny didn't fight well going backwards, and Jerry
would have forced him to do so. Jerry was the harder puncher as well. Norton
has said that he never fought Joe Frazier because they were too close as
friends. But he knew from sparring with Joe he would have been KO'ed. Anyone
who moves in against hard punchers like Joe and Jerry are in big trouble.
Liston over Williams in 6 rounds. Foreman over Shavers in...I'll give Ernie a
break and say 2 rounds. He didn't have the chin or defense to stand up to
George. |
|6/20/02 12:54:47 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|The thing is
Bob, Jerry did land some very hard punches on Norton when the two did fight and
the saying goes that even if Jerry was on his way down skillwise, the last thing
a fighter loses is his punching power. Prime against prime Jerry would have been
more accurate which would have given him a much better chance of winning the
fight. There was still a possibility of Jerry being cut as Norton had a very
good long hard left jab and poweful overhand right. Can you imagine the action
if say Jerry had been cut and he went toe to toe with Norton and still had
something left if the knockout didn't occur and the two of them would have
traded like they did in their fight in the third round for several rounds? What
a fight it would have been! I think Quarry verses Norton would have been a good
candidate for fight of the year in almost any year if the two of them were at or
near their best. Of course there was always a possibility of Norton, often a
slow starter, getting caught with some hard punches in the first or second round
by Jerry with Norton being an early knockout victim. The other way around with
Norton knocking out Jerry early or at all isn't likely due to Jerry's great
chin. A Norton victory would most likely be by decision or by cuts. |
|6/20/02 03:26:25 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|I'm joining the rest of you to say
Liston by early - mid kayo over Carl Williams. Foreman - Shavers would be a WAR
!!! Foreman's better chin would win him a wild affair that would see possibly
both of them on the deck before George ended Shavers' dreams with a savage
flurry in the third ! Tha puts George and Sonny through to the last eight. In
the next two bouts we have Mike Tyson taking on Ken Norton and Joe Frazier
meeting Eddie Machen. This time around it is a prime, fit Machen not the end of
career version. All fights scheduled for 12 rounds. In the quarter-finals we
will move the distance to fifteen rounders. Hope this is okay with everyone.
Evren|
|6/20/02 03:50:10 PM|Joe Krause|Chicago||sadmspats@yahoo.com||||10|Poor Kenny
getting matched up with a stalker is his worst nightmare. He wouldn't last past
the 2nd round with Tyson knocking him out because Norton is terrible going
backwards and doesn't have the firepower to go forward into Tyson. Frazier
would win most of the rounds maybe 8 or so and win 8-4 in a decent fight with a
lot of Machen holding. I have some Machen-Frazier on tape and Machen shakes
Frazier up coming off the ropes, I believe he would put up a good fight, but not