January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

heavyweight boxing. As stated by many, including myself, he had great heart,
tremendous courage, he gave everything and many of his fights were historically,
very significant. So for everything that Jerry contributed to boxing, I consider
him to be a great heavyweight. That doesn't mean that he is championship
material, however. During Jerry's time, Frazier, Ali and Foreman were champions.
Ali, in my opinion, was the greatest, because of what he did for boxing, as well
as his boxing skills. Frazier was a great heavyweight, as well, although much of
his greatness came as a result of his meetings with Ali. Foreman could also be
considered great, because during his brief reign, he did dominate the
imaginations of many boxing fans. But I see Jerry as greater than George,
because the whole picture shows a man who gave it all, went out with nothing,
but is remembered as one of the great heavyweights of a bygone era. |
|12/16/03 09:47:58 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Pete, Jerry
was better than a lot of heavyweight champions. Was he better than the top ten
of all time, which you practically listed in your post? No he wasn't, but he
was better than other linear champions such as L. Spinks, M. Spinks (possibly,
Quarry/M.Spinks- a competitive match), Johannson, Sharkey, Tommy Burns, Max Baer
(Jerry would have outboxed him), an older George Foreman, Moorer, Jess Willard,
Primo Canera, and maybe even Schemling. Jerry was also cetainly better than
most of the split champions.Pete, championship caliber and the all time
upper elite are two different things.|
|12/17/03 12:37:05 AM|Gerry Schultz|Cleveland,
Ohio||jgschultz11@msn.com||||10|As already said, I definitely feel JQ was
championship-caliber, and better than Jimmy Ellis, who showed JQ a lot of
respect in their match. Given that Ellis was a very good heavy, this is a real
compliment. Also as said before, I consider JQ a former champ anyway. He
certainly had the respect of every top heavy and champ in his era, which is
almost certainly the best ever in boxing. My question was about the draws, how
he looked at them ( perhaps not nearly as seriously as he should have ), and his
mentality, attitude and confidence. It takes quite a bit of something to charge
Joe Frazier, a top champ he nearly beat, or to take on Norton with virtually no
preparation. JQ certainly had plenty of voices telling him how good he was, way
more supporters than Joe Frazier or Ken Norton, each of who may have saw these
fights more clearly than Jerry. There were these draws, and shrugging statements
in losses to Machen, Ellis, Ali I, Chuvalo as well as his approaches to Frazier
I and Norton that make me want to ask about how he saw himself and these
matches. I don't feel Jerry could have beat Ali, two matches weren't necessary
to prove that point, but Ali I's quick end gave him room to talk, I've read that
Jerry really did believe he could have won, I guess I wonder where that comes
from. He was as good as Frazier early in their matches, and was confident enough
to try Joe twice. Again I think he could have beat Norton, but not realistically
the way he ended up meeting him, where was he at, at this point? He had the
talent to have great moments against these champs, was there something in the
hoopla or his own attitude that prevented Jerry from going maybe a little
further? As a fan, I guess that's my question. He never flinched versus Shavers,
who wanted a round-one KO, and ended up being one, and was just incredible
against Lyle, yet gave much different efforts in other fights. Even at the
Superstars, so way up one year, so down the other. I get the feeling Jerry was
very approachable as a person, but a much different personality in the gym
/ring. Again, I'd like to know more about his attitudes through all this.
Thanks. |
|12/17/03 05:30:34 AM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|Yeah, Jerry Quarry was better than
Carnera, but Primo was better than Ruiz, for God's sake ! Don' t you agree, Paul
? What do you think about a matchup Carnera-Toney ? Be carefully, our friendness
( or friendship ? I don't remember, anyway one of the two) is on the line
!RS-I'd love to see Chicago Bulls- Lakers once in my life ! You have
Eddy Curry "Baby Shaq". If you meet Eddy there in Chicago, look up and say "