January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Alexander at the Nassau Colliseum and then, later that summer, destroyed by
Frazier. I even think he was past his prime in December, 1973, when he beat
Shavers. I know the KO of Shavers was huge, but look at the tape. I'm not sure
that Jerry could have gone many more rounds had he not dispatched Ernie so
quickly. He did not even look the same physically as he had at the beginning of
the year when he gave Lyle a 12 round boxing lesson. I remember Mike
saying that Jerry had prostituted himself by taking the Norton fight on two
weeks notice in the condition he was in. Let's face it, he was not taking care
of himself at the time, it is apparent by just looking at him in the films.
That's why that fight bothers me so much. He was a faint shadow of the guy who
fought a toe to toe war with an in-the-prime Frazier '69. Norton, on the other
hand, with many fewer miles on the odometer, was obviously a dedicated fitness
fanatic, probably driven by a huge ego. Which is all a long way of
saying that I agree with the poster who called Norton a jackass for the comments
he made. It would be like Cooney writing a book in which he crowed about his
destruction of Norton - talk about someone in need of a stretcher - as if he had
beaten a Norton who was at the top of his game. Say what you want about
Gerry Cooney, at least he never made the type of vicious comments about an
opponent that Norton did about Jerry Quarry. Maybe Gerry didn't have enough
killer instinct, but he was, and is, a decent person who continues to work
helping former boxers who are in need, rather than shooting his mouth off for
pay. PS How many times did Jerry Quarry go out on his back, Ken? Oh,
right, that's what I thought.|
|4/1/05 12:52:54 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|I AGREE WITH FORREST WARD, JERRY WOULD
HAVE HAD A MUCH BETTER CAREER IF HE WAS HANDLED BETTER, SAY LIKE FOR EXAMPLE
CARLOS PALAMINO, BUT L.A. HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BIG FIGHT TOWN,NUMBER 2 TO NEW YORK
IN MY OPINION, THE L.A. PRESS A BUNCH OF CHICKAN SHIT FOOLS WERE VISCIOUS TO JQ,
LOS ANGELES FIGHTER'S 90 % END UP PUNCH DRUNK AND BROKE, AND NEARLY ALL WERE
GLADIATORS, VERY SAD.NORTON HAS DISAPPOINTED ME IN HIS COMMENTS OF JQ, BUT I
RESPECT KENNY EVEN SO, HE DID GO OUT ON HIS BACK, AND LIKE JERRY WHO HAD MORE
GUTS THEN THE FRENCH FORGEIN LEGION COMBINED DID NOT. TAKE CARE!|
|4/1/05 01:56:36 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|I agree with
Fan, Norton had a lot of heart and it was his chin that folded, not his will
against punchers like Foreman, Shavers, and Cooney. Norton did show
Jerry some respect in his book when he said that his bad feelings for Jerry went
away after they hugged in the ring after a tough battle. I think his respect
for Jerry resulted from him seeing how much guts Jerry had. Norton does
acknowledge Jerry had a lot of heart in his book.I will be attending
Riddick Bowe's fight on April 7 against a guy I have never heard of and can't
think of his name off of the top of my head. It is still more dangerous
for Bowe to be getting in the ring again then when he was at or near his best
and even though the opponent is a journeyman, Ron Cramner was a journeyman too
and look what he did to Jerry when Jerry shouldn't have been in the ring.
Also, Dale Crowe was a journeyman when he fought Greg Page and look what
he did to Page.Let's hope Bowe doesn't get hurt in this one. |
|4/1/05 03:13:28 PM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Kent-I have heard that
Evander Holyfield will fight the German Heavyweight Champion (whose name I don't
remember, he is less famous than Muhammad Ali') very soon. This guy is the same
age as Evander and has a record of 25-6 or something close. Hey folks, what's
going on in the boxing wordl ? Today the average professional fighteris 61
years old !|
|4/1/05 03:16:09 PM|Fan|USA||n/a||||10| Allow me to correct myself: the Norton
fight was March, 1975. I should have known that, I was there. |
|4/1/05 03:41:54 PM|Howard C.|Louisville||howardc@louisville||||10|Noam, I guess
everyone remembered that it is April's Fools Day.|
|4/2/05 03:27:51 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Howard - At least I caught Massimo out