January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Quarry would have likely outpointed Bonavena. Jerry could take one hell of a
punch and was more skilled than Oscar. My only doubt is the cut factor. 70%
Jerry wins on points, 30% Bonavena stops Quarry on cuts. I don't know who was
the harder puncher between Quarry and Bonavena though. What( or which) were the
most (or more) spectacular knockout wins in Jerry's career ? Shavers, Mac
Foster, Spencer and then ? I wish I saw more footage of Jerry in the ring.|
|1/15/05 06:50:43 AM|One-Punch-Nelson|Reno||No_Spam.com||||10|Quarry over
Bonavena by decision, if Jerry's very well prepared. After not being allowed
though the gates at the Mustang, Oscar walked back to his new 1976 Courgar and
was shot down. The shot came from inside the compound, which was surrounded by
a tall prison style security fence. They found a loaded 38 pistols inside
Oscar's boot....but Oscar's body had been moved before authorities arrived, so
they could not tell where exactly inside the compund the shot came from (ground
level, or from one of the gun towers that rose above the complex). There was
also a question of someone planting the 38 inside Oscar's boot - the 38 turned
out to be registered to Joe Conforte's wife (Conforte was the owner of the
Mustang). It was reported that Conforte passed the word to employees, in case
they were interviewed, to "shut-up and tell the truth", which probably means
keep your mouth shut. In the days leading up to the murder, Oscar had visited
the Police and said his life had been threatened. Just a few days before the
shooting, someone had removed all his belongings from his apartment and burned
them - which forced him to make a trip to San Franciso to the Argentine
Consolate to get his visa related papers replaced (Joe's wife, Sally, went on
this 2-day trip with Oscar). Oscar was sticking around Reno having fun, but he
got involved with the dark side of the town and didn't get the hell out of there
when he should have. As a boxing fax, we not only lost Oscar back in May 1976,
we also missed a June 1976 Live NBC TV fight that was to match Oscar againt
Earnie Shavers. |
|1/15/05 10:52:53 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|1976
Bonavena-Shavers would have been very interesting. Shavers actually improved
later in his career---the '77 fight against Ali and later, his losses to Holmes
as well as his round one KO over Norton---all later 1970's. In 1976, I don't
think he was at his best yet and Bonavena might have had a chance at an upset.|
|1/15/05 12:27:06 PM|Fan|Fandom||Fan@Fandom.com||||10|Shavers-Bonavena 1976
tough fight to call. Bonavena could take a punch, but was on the downside and
not very active. Would have to pick Shavers by knockout here, although in 1973
I would Bonavena to knock Shavers out.|
|1/15/05 02:23:51 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Shavers
verses Bonevena circa 1976 is an interesting match up and although I would favor
Shavers in this one, as Bonevena was likely on the downside of his career,
Shavers could not take a punch very well and he often had stanima problems as he
would not pace himself very well, leaving him to often be very fatigued in the
later rounds. No doubt about it, Bonevena could punch and he was very strong
and durable. |
|1/15/05 02:47:12 PM|Kent|same||same||||10|I just looked up Bonenena's record
and from 1973 to 1976, the year he died, he had twelve fights, mostly against
mediocre competition. He did win eleven out of the twelve though and his only
loss during this period was by a decision to Ron Lyle. In his other big fight
during this time he defeated contender Larry Middleton, also by a
decision.It looks like Oscar Bonevena was still going strong at the age
of 33 when he was killed.|
|1/15/05 02:55:58 PM|Nerone|Domus Aurea||Roma is burning ah, ah.com||||10|Circa
ain't American slang... Bravo Kent !|
|1/16/05 12:34:21 AM|Correction|ladeda||ladeda||||10|Not that it matters, but a
38 is a revolver (Smith & Weston), not a pistol. |
|1/16/05 02:32:35 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|SteveYour comments regarding
Tszyu and Hatton are very astute. Tszyu will batter him.Tszyu might be