January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

"sugar love"Love, for a great body shot that Love said was low,Nixon had won
every round, Nixon might have at least made a top ten fighter, FOR "THE RING
MAGAZINE" had it not been for his chin, and mysteriously fighters with they last
name of "DAVIS".|
|3/5/03 10:16:49 PM|FOREST WARD|SOUTH CAROLINA||JOEKEVIN@CS.COM||||10|I HAVE NOT
BEEN ON THE BOARD FOR A FEW DAYS SO I MISSED THE LETTER THAT HAS CAUSE THE
UPROAR, I MUST ADMIT I WISHED I SAW IT, NO MATTER. EVREN, I AGREE WITH YOUR
FEELING THAT THE FIGHTERS OF THE OLD DAYS SHOULD NOT BE DISCOUNTED BECAUSE THEY
WERE SO MUCH SMALLER THAN PRESENT HEAVYWEIGHTS. IT WAS ALWAYS MY CONTENTION
LIKE YOURS (I THINK)THAT IF THE OLDER GENERATION HEAVYWEIGHTS WERE AROUND TODAY,
THEY TO WOULD HAVE ACESS TO THESE "MIRACLE DRUGS;" AND THEY TOO WOULD BE SUPER
HEAVYWEIGHTS (WEIGH AT LEAST 20-30 POUNDS MORE THAN THEY DID IN THEIR PRIME).
ONE MORE THING AS GREAT OR AS GOOD AS ROY JONES IS,LETS NOT FORGET JOHN RUIZ IS
THE POOREST EXCUSE FOR A SO CALLED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION I EVER SAW. HE
DISGUSTED ME WHEN HE FOUGHT KIRK JOHNSON, AND SHAMELESSLY ROLLED ON THE CANVASS
TRYING TO WIN THE FIGHT ON A DISQUALIFICATION (WHICH IS HOW HE WON). RUIZ IS A
CLUB FIGHTER, WHO 30 YEARS AGO NEVER WOULD HAVE GOT BEYOND BEING A 6 ROUND CLUB
FIGHTER WITH PROMOTER SAM SILVERMAN IN NEW ENGLAND.|
|3/6/03 07:04:55 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Speaking of Light
Heavies: does anyone remember a pretty good lightheavy of the 70's from the
Bronx named Willie Burton? He was a good light heavy who I saw fight in the NYC
area. |
|3/6/03 01:21:57 PM|FOREST WARD|SOUTH CAROLINA||JOEKEVIN@CS.COM||||2|JOHN,
"WILLIE BURTON," BOY IS THAT A NAME FROM THE PAST. HE WAS ONE OF MY ALL-TIME
FAVORITES WHEN I WAS GROWING UP. HERE IS A LITTLE BACKGROUND ABOUT WILLIE BURTON
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW OF HIM. HE BOXED AS AN AMATEUR AT THE FAMED SALEM
CRESCENT BOXING CLUB; WHICH WAS THE SAME CLUB RAY ROBINSON BEGAN BOXING. WILLIE
BURTON WON 3 NYC GOLDEN GLOVES CHAMPIONSHIPS:1964,1965,1965, AS A MIDDLEWEIGHT.
BACK IN THE THE 1960'S AND EARLIER IT WAS A MARK OF DISTINCTION TO WIN THE
GLOVES IN NYC.TO DO IT 3 TIMES IN SUCCESSION WAS A FEAT. NOW THE COMPETITION IS
WATERED DOWN AND IT IS NOT QUITE A FEATWILLIE TURNED PRO IN 1966 AS A
MIDDLEWEIGHT, AND HAD TROUBLE GETTING FIGHTS, NO ONE WANTED TO FIGHT THIS GUY HE
WAS A SUPERB BOXER, HIS MANAGER WAS AN OLD TIMER, BOBBY MELNICK, MELNICK WAS A
NICE GUY WHO MANAGED AMONG OTHERS, TIGER JONES IN THE 50'S. AROUND 1968 BURTON
STARTED FIGHTING AS LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT. I SAW HIM FIGHT JIMMY DUPREE ON THE
UNDERCARD OF THE DICK TIGER-FRANKIE DEPAULA CARD IN OCT OF 1968. AT THAT TIME
JIMMY DUPREE WAS GOING WELL AND HE TOO HAD TROUBLE GETTING FIGHTS. SO THE FIGHT
WAS A NATURAL RIGHT? WRONG! IT WAS A DULL FIGHT AND THEY FOUGHT TO A DRAW.
DUPREE FREELY ADMITTED AFTER THE FIGHT HE WAS CAUTIOUS OF BURTON BECAUSE OF
BURTONS REPUTATION, AND APPARENTLY BURTON FELT THE SAME WAY ABOUT DUPREE'S
REPUTATION. WELL NOW WE MOVE TO OCT 1969, AND BURTON IS FIGHTING AS A
HEAVYWEIGHT, BECAUSE HE COULD NOT GET FIGHTS AS A LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT. HE WAS
BEATING LUIS PIRES PRETTY HANDILY, UNTIL PIRES CAUGHT HIM IN THE 7TH ROUND AND
KNOCKED HIM OUT. BURTON FOUGHT PIRES ONE MORE TIME AND WAS KNOCKED OUT AGAIN.
GOD BLESSED BURTON, HE GAVE HIM THE WISDOM TO CALL IT A CAREER, AND BURTON NEVER
FOUGHT AGAIN.A LITTLE HISTORY ON THE SAME NIGHT BURTON WAS KNOCKED OUT
BY PIRES, OCT.31, 1969. ANOTHER FAVORITE OF MINE FOREST WARD WAS KNOCKED OUT BY
BILL DROVER, THAT WAS WARD'S LAST FIGHT TOO. MIKE QUARRY WON A TOUGH 8 RD
DECISION AGAINST RUBEN FIGUEROA, THAT NIGHT. THIS WAS A REMATCH, THEY FOUGHT A
CLOSE FIGHT IN JUNE ON THE UNDERCARD OF QUARRY-FRAZIER. INTERESTINGLY THERE WAS
ALMOST A RIOT IN THE GARDEN WHEN THE DECISION WAS ANNOUNCED IN QUARRY'S FAVOR.
AMONG THE CONTRIBUTUING FACTORS TO THE NEAR RIOT WERE:#1 THE LATIN FANS IN THE
AUDIENCE WHO THOUGHT FIGUEROA WAS ROBBED, #2 THE ALCOHOL THEY CONSUMED, AND
LASTLY #3 MUHAMMAD ALI WAS IN THE AUDIENCE AND HE WAS INCITING THE LATINS.
BEFORE ANYONE ATTACKS ME FOR SOILING THE NAME OF MUHAMMAD ALI, REMEMBER THIS WAS
OCT. OF 1969, AND ALI WAS VEHEMENT ANTI WHITE, ANTI ESTABLISHMENT BLACK MUSLIM
AT THAT TIME. GUESS WHAT PROBABLY PREVENTED THR RIOT. THER WAS ONE MORE FIGHT