January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

moments in the sixth round where he shook up Klitschko with some hard body shots
but he seemed unable to continue this or to switch the attack to the head. When
he saw that he couldn't win the battle of the jabs, he should have tried to
press the attack behind the body attacks to set up head shots. McCline seemed
frustrated and his performance reminded me a lot of Jerry's poor showing against
Ali in their second fight. He did put on a game effort but it just wasn't
enough. Klitschko looked pretty good and even though the fight wasn't exciting,
he showed some excellent tools such as, defense, hand speed, and some good power
shots when they were needed. |
|12/10/02 03:01:27 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|Good points Gerry. Yes I also feel
Jerry was of championship caliber and had he been around 10 years earlier or
later he may well of been champ (if he avoided Holmes)|
|12/11/02 07:30:41 PM|Bob Bumbera|NC||renfbera@aol.com||||10|Yes Steve I do
remember Qwai. I was at the Omni in Atlanta when he lost the title to Holyfield
in a 15 round give and take fight. A great thrill for me was shaking Jersey Joe
Walcott's hand, he was there to give some moral support to Qwai. Even though he
was in his 70's he still looked like he could step in and go a few rounds! I
still don't believe Jerry could have beaten George Foreman. Foreman was just
too big and strong for Jerry. Above everything else, don't forget Big George
had tremendous heart. Scraping him self off the floor in his fight with Lyle,
few fighters could have done that after the beating he took, then to come back
and KO Lyle. Jerry may have had a chance when Foreman was young and wild but
after Peralta and Frazier I don't think so. Foreman always had a punishing left
jab and I think that would be Jerrys undoing. I'd like to see a 23 or 24 year
old Jerry Quarry in with some of todays Crusierweights though. I think he'd run
through them all. You can never take anything away from Jerry. He fought well
against some of the biggest names in boxing history, and they will forget being
being hit by Jerry Quarry. Now that my power has finaly come back on I'll spend
the next few days clearing the fallen trees from my yard. So much for the
"Sunny South". |
|12/12/02 01:24:46 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Jerry sure handled George in a 1968,
workout, I know that does not mean anything of course for 1974, although
Muhammad showed "BIG GEORGE" was'nt completely invinceable. And YOU NEVER SAW
jERRY GET MUSCLED AROUND all that much, and if he did it was great because he
was a better boxer, when he used his true talent, LIKE THE CHUVALO DEBACKLE,
WHEN CHUVALO GOT RUFF IT DIDN'T BOTHER JERRY ALL THAT MUCH, HE PRACTICLY WON
EVERY ROUND although he was also a good brawler and slugger, but not quite in
that FOREMAN/FRAZIER CLASS|
|12/12/02 01:34:03 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|ALTHOUGH JERRY HAD JERRY'S NUMBER, WHAT
WOULD "SMOKIN JOE" DO VS THAT BIG SLUGGER, LIKE MAC FOSTER,RON LYLE EARNIE
SHAVERS, JEFF MERRITT TYPES?IT MIGHT OF BEEN ALOT LIKE FOREMAN, HOW ABOUT SONNY
LISTON??and i have they utmost respect for Frazier,and that 1974 bout with
Quarry was my most disappointment of my life as far aS BOXING WENT,I WAS SURE
JERRY'D GET THE TITLE SHOT, OF COURSE HE HAD BILLS TO PAY.|
|12/12/02 03:29:09 PM|charles anderson|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|joe louis
had absolutley no business as the third man in the ring in the second frazier
fight|
|12/12/02 05:40:51 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|I think Joe would beat Shavers,
Merrit and Foster with considerable ease. Again you are talking about one of the
best fighters that ever lived against also ran's. I feel Joe at his best in
1970/1971 may have beaten George because of his speed and fitness but who knows.
Joe never made excuses for losing to George and remember only two men ever beat
him.|
|12/12/02 05:50:54 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO,COM||||10|Neither did Zack Clayton have any