January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

LEFT, THE MAIN EVENT, GEORGE FOREMAN AGAINST ROBERTO DAVILLA. THE FANS WANTED TO
SEE THE MAIN EVENT SO THEY DID NOT RIOT. NO THANKS TO MUHAMMAD ALI. SORRY
FOR BEING SO LONG WINDED BUT SEEING WILLIE BURTONS NAME BROUGHT BACK LONG LOST
MEMORIES. |
|3/6/03 02:12:29 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|FOREST: Thanks so
much for all that info on Willie Burton. I am glad Willie got out when it was
time to. I hope he is doing very well and is aware of how many good memories he
gave the fans. Another guy who I thought was going places but never did was the
Florida giantAl Jones (not Memphis Al Jones) who fought in the Miami area in
the late 60's under Chrisand Angelo Dundee. He was a 6'6" southpaw and look
pretty good for a while. |
|3/6/03 07:22:45 PM|FOREST WARD|SOUTH CAROLINA||JOEKEVIN@CS.COM||||6|JOHN, WHEN
I READ YOUR POSTS I FEEL LIKE I AM LOOKING IN A MIRROR. I OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT
AL JONES MYSELF. TEN YEARS AGO BUMPED INTO BOXING HISTORIAN HANK KAPLAN OF
MIAMI, AND I ASKED HIM ABOUT AL JONES, AND WHAT HAPPENNED? WELL, THE 1ST THING
YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT HANK KAPLAN IS THAT HE IS A GENTLEMAN, AND HE DOES NOT TALK
BAD ABOUT ANYONE. THAT BEING THE CASE, I DID NOT LEARN TOO MUCH! ALTHOUGH HANK
SAID, THAT AT ONE POINT IN AL JONES CAREER HE WON A SETTLEMENT IN A CAR
ACCIDENT, AND THIS MAY HAVE DULLED HIS AMBITION. READING BETWEEN THE LINES IF
YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT AL JONES RECORD YOU SEE THAT HE FOUGHT A LOT OF JOURNEY MEN,
AND ALMOST ALWAYS IN MIAMI BEACH. INCLUDING A DRAW WITH ZORA FOLLEY IN 1968
(FOLLEY HAD TO BE CLOSE 40 AT THE TIME); AND A DRAW WITH LOUIS PIREZ (WILLIE
BURTONS CONQUERER) IN 1970. IF HE GOT A DRAW IN HIS HOMETOWN WITH THESE GUYS HE
PROBABLY LOST THE FIGHT. HE WAS ALSO A SOUTHPAW, THAT OF COURSE DID NOT HELP
HIS CAREER.|
|3/6/03 07:23:02 PM|FOREST WARD|SOUTH CAROLINA||JOEKEVIN@CS.COM||||6|JOHN, WHEN
I READ YOUR POSTS I FEEL LIKE I AM LOOKING IN A MIRROR. I OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT
AL JONES MYSELF. TEN YEARS AGO BUMPED INTO BOXING HISTORIAN HANK KAPLAN OF
MIAMI, AND I ASKED HIM ABOUT AL JONES, AND WHAT HAPPENNED? WELL, THE 1ST THING
YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT HANK KAPLAN IS THAT HE IS A GENTLEMAN, AND HE DOES NOT TALK
BAD ABOUT ANYONE. THAT BEING THE CASE, I DID NOT LEARN TOO MUCH! ALTHOUGH HANK
SAID, THAT AT ONE POINT IN AL JONES CAREER HE WON A SETTLEMENT IN A CAR
ACCIDENT, AND THIS MAY HAVE DULLED HIS AMBITION. READING BETWEEN THE LINES IF
YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT AL JONES RECORD YOU SEE THAT HE FOUGHT A LOT OF JOURNEY MEN,
AND ALMOST ALWAYS IN MIAMI BEACH. INCLUDING A DRAW WITH ZORA FOLLEY IN 1968
(FOLLEY HAD TO BE CLOSE 40 AT THE TIME); AND A DRAW WITH LOUIS PIREZ (WILLIE
BURTONS CONQUERER) IN 1970. IF HE GOT A DRAW IN HIS HOMETOWN WITH THESE GUYS HE
PROBABLY LOST THE FIGHT. HE WAS ALSO A SOUTHPAW, THAT OF COURSE DID NOT HELP
HIS CAREER.|
|3/6/03 10:04:49 PM|FOREST WARD|SOUTH CAROLINA||JOEKEVIN@CS.COM||||10|HI, SORRY
I MEANT TO RATE THE SITE A 10 IN MY LAST 2 POSTINGS, I DON'T KNOW WHAT
HAPPENNED, BUT I APOLOGIZE FOR THE MISTAKES|
|3/7/03 06:55:25 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|FOREST; Thanks so
much for the update. Do you remember Blue Lewis and Jeff Merrit? Lewis was
beating the heck out of Bonavena in Argentina and the ref just disqualified him
for no reason. Merrit hit Ron Stander with a left hook that put him flat on his
back and Stander could take a punch. Also a Rocky Graziano clone middleweight
out of Chicago named Rocky DiFazio. A very exciting kid who fought in Chicago
and Vegas. I think he quit when Denny Moyer beat him on decision. Thanks for
the memories!|
|3/7/03 11:53:37 AM|FOREST WARD|SOUTH CAROLINA||JOEKEVIN@CS.COM||||10|HI JOHN, I
REMEMBER BOTH JEFF MERRIT AND BLUE LEWIS, VERY WELL. BOTH WERE EX-JAILBIRDS
LOOKING FOR A NEW START IN LIFE THROUGH BOXING. I DID NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT ROCKY
DiFAZIO, EXCEPT FOR WHAT I SAW IN RING MAGAZINE.I REMEMBER WHEN JEFF
MERRITT STARTED FIGHTING, BOY COULD HE PUNCH; ESPECIALLY WITH HIS LEFT HOOK. HE
BEGAN FIGHTING IN THE LATE 60'S IN NEW YORK CITY. MERRITT WAS TRAINED AT THAT
TIME BY SANDY SADDLER. AT THE TIME HE WAS A RECOVERING DOPE ADDICT, WHO DID TIME