January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

next, Foreman was devastating. Chuvalo's wife was at ringside screaming to the
referee to stop the fight. The tape of that fight does not do justice to how
awesome Foreman was that night!I saw Bonavena against Patterson, I
thought Bonavena won. I saw Emile Griffith fight more times than I can
remember, but he was no longer a champion in any of these fights. I saw Sonny
Liston-Chuck Wepner in the Jersey City Armory. The 1st professional boxing match
I ever attended was Dick Tiger-Bob Foster. The greatest fight I ever attended
was Dick Tiger against Frankie DePaula. The 1st 4 rounds were identical to
Foreman-Lyle.The last 6 were drab, Tiger won 10 round decision.I saw
Vito Antufermo in his first amatuer fight, he lost. I see him fight 6 months
later and boy did he improve. Vito was a overachiever. I saw Eddie Mustafa
Muhammad aka Eddie Gregory in the amatuers. He would knockout all his opponents
with just one punch.He was a teenage welterweight version of Bob Foster. I saw
Eddie beat Vito via a 3 round decision in the Golden Gloves finals in the Garden
in 1971. No one knocks Vito out! Evren, when I saw most of these fights
I was a teenager (I turned 50 last October). I would have made a deal with the
devil to trade places with most of these fighters, and be them. Now at the age
of 50, I thank God that I never got to meet the devil. But, the memories are
priceless. |
|11/27/03 05:54:16 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|WOW - Cannot believe you were at the
Liston-Wepner fight - I have read many stories of that fight and have the film
but it doesn't do it justice as it was a Cinefilm. Was Wepner cut up as bad as
the reports say. If my memory serves me correct Wepner was down in that fight
from a body shot. He was also down against Buster Mathis and Ali. He once
claimed that he was never decked! |
|11/27/03 07:17:08 PM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|Forest-I'd like to have the
following informations. Do you think that Ali' deserved the
decisionagainst Bonavena ? Was it a beautiful fight ?Did you see
Foreman-Wepner ? Is it true thatForeman was decked in that fight ? Thank
youvery much !|
|11/27/03 07:24:39 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Sorry don't mean to but in there
Massimo - Ali kayoed Bonavena and WEPNER ABSOLUTELY DID NOT KNOCKDOWN FOREMAN NO
MATTER WHAT HE SAYS! Did you get my e-mail Massimo?|
|11/27/03 07:27:41 PM|Kent|LH Ca||kentallen@etc||||10|Evren, in the interest of
fairness, you should not have said anything about people from Sydney. Any
negative remarks about any kind of people is not right. Be they white, black,
of whatever their beliefs are.Also, by saying to Paul that it never
ends, it will be hard to get back to boxing.I am not turning on you and
since we go back a long way at this site, I would consider you a friend. But
like I said, fair is fair. I do understand why you have been feeling the
way you do. You know I am concerned about what you are going
through.NOW, AM I BEING FAIR BY BEING CRITICAL OF ALL OF THE NEGATIVE
TALK LATELY, AND CAN WE PLEASE GET BACK TO BOXING!? |
|11/27/03 07:31:20 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||Joekevin@cs.com||||10|Evren, I
don't remember Wepner going down from a Liston body punch. The fight itself was
not exciting. Wepner was a limitted fighter. He could not punch, and he could
not box, and he was very slow. But, Chuck always gave 100%,and you will never
meet a nicer guy. I run into him ocasionally and he seems fine mentally and
physically. Go figure.But, getting back to the fight. Liston was the
attraction. At that time in his career I would have bought a ticket just to see
him jump rope. It was kind of like getting to see Sinatra at the end of his
career if you were a fight fan you wanted to be able to see Sonny in person.
Liston used his jab the whole night, it was still an awesome weapon. The
referee should have stopped the fight sooner. Also, in attendance in the
audience that night was Muhammad Ali.I knew about the Mathis knockdown
of Wepner. It's remarkable Wepner with the great chin getting knock down by
light hitting Mathis. But Mathis probably weighed at least 250 that