January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|11/24/03 03:29:28 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|the boxing
workout does not build big muscles per say, but does create definition and
endurance, as you could see most fighters bodies don't change that much from
year to year, look at joe frazier for instants, sonya remember koo koo's
thinking about you :) koo koo|
|11/24/03 05:24:06 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|R.S - According to that Boxing
Illustrated article I quoted from last week Jerry had 237 amateur bouts! That is
alot - he was still very young when he turned pro too. Fran - your comment
about the Quarry-Chuvalo fight (if I understand it correctly) is wrong. The
fight was quite close though Quarry was clearly the superior boxer and was ahead
by most peoples reckoning. After a heated exchange along the ropes in round 7
both boxers steadied themselves - as the referee broke them Chuvalo scored with
a perfectly timed left hook which caught Jerry high on the head/near the temple
area. Jerry staggered and the went down. He was up immediately but dropped down
to one knee to take the opportunity to clear his head.Referee Zack Clayton went
right up to Jerry (who was on one knee) and tolled the count right into his
ear.The count went to ten and then Jerry jumped up - he made a mistake or he was
still feeling the affects of what was a decent punch. You hear commentator Don
Dunphy shout "Oh No Oh No" recognising the fact that Jerry had missed the count.
In his interview after Chuvalo said "That's what happens when you get hit with a
good shot - you think it's nine it's really ten!". The replay showed that
Clayton did act properly and did indeed count directly into Quarry's ear. It was
one of those things...it kind of reminds me of the 2nd Marciano - Walcott bout.
The Quarry vs Chuvalo bout was a real good one though...|
|11/24/03 05:47:34
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Evren -I
looked up Jerry on Cyber Boxing Zone for his total record. Maybe he did have
more amatuer fights. I don't know when he started as an amateur, but it looks
like he turned pro just about a week before his 20th b-day. Even if he had the
183 fights I mentioned, and started at 10, that's still almost a fight every
three weeks. I'm guessing bigger kids demanded his lunch money on the way to
school only once! LOL!Koo-Koo -I think boxers have great bodies,
but you're right that it won't build the muscles weights do. I like a weight
trained body too, but not the Mr. Universe/steroid bods. Since most of what a
fighter does is endurance, high rep/low intensity (compared to weights)
training, they don't get the mass. If high rep/low intensity built really showy
muscles, marathon runners would have the best legs in the world! Where
you see high definition in a fighter, a lot is the workouts, but it's also
because they have really low body fat percentage. Here's something else
interesting I read once in a fitness article: it said that on the average,
blacks tend to have a lower body fat percentage than whites do. This was in
Muscle and Fitness, which BTW is an excellent magazine for health, fitness and
diet, with a heavy slant towards weights.|
|11/24/03 05:52:55
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Fran -When
I've seen guys use the double end bag, it seemed that it had a mind of its own,
but then when you first start hitting the speed bag, that's how it seems too.
The speed bag isn't hard at all once you learn how to control it, and probably
the DE is that way too, huh?I think the most amazing routines I've ever
seen on the speed bag and the jump rope were by Roberto Duran. Honestly, he was
so fast and clever, with so many cool variations, he could have given
demonstrations! Even if a person knew how to do both well, he'd still be a whiz
to watch.|
|11/24/03 06:51:59 PM|Fran|PA||plc7755@aol.com||||10|Duran was beutiful could do
it all. I remember the Chuvallo fight from 34 years ago it was the only
time i saw it and I remember Quarry taking him to school and Chuvalo was on his
way to getting stopped. All these years it sticks in my mind that it was a jab