January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

and chose most of the time. He fights who he wants and doesn't fight who he
doesn't want.That's what makes Ali's career so great. There was no one
from that era of any credibility who he didn't fight. He took them on one after
the other. It would appear now that he was prepared to risk his health to
bolster his reputation. Others didn't want to take that risk yet they didn't
want their reputation to suffer either. They can't have it both ways.You
can apply any test to the careers of Ali and Quarry and one thing really stands
out: they fought the best, one after the other. Some people don't like to hear
that because they believe it detracts from the exploits of their guy, who didn't
do the same. But the yardstick of that era was Ali and you have to compare
contemporaries to him when discussing their respective places in history.
There's no other fair way of doing it.And Quarry compares favourably.
When he hit the big time in 1967 he fought Jones, London, Patterson x 2 in that
year. The second Patterson fight was the WBA elimination tournament. Jerry
didn't hesitate in entering it.In 1968 he fought Spencer and Ellis. In
1969 Mathis, Frazier, London and Chuvalo. No rests or tune ups or downs for him.
In 1970 he fought Mac Foster and Ali. He fought Ali again later. He then fought
Lyle AND Shavers in the SAME year. No problem scheduling them in. Frazier and
Norton followed. See Jerry's pattern.....fight the best, whoever they were, one
after the other.Quarry (same age as Frazier) had 53 fights and only 9
losses. If you apply the test of judging him by his hardest win (not his easiest
ones) we come up with names like Shavers, Lyle, Mac Foster, Mathis, Spencer,
Patterson. Jerry's one guy who comes up looking good if he judge him by
his losses, too. Ali, Frazier, Norton. No shame there.His win/loss list
is so powerful that it has to qualify him as perhaps the best heavyweight not to
win a world title. |
|8/23/05 01:55:37 AM|&^^%$|(*&^)||BHGFD||||10|your wasting your time Noam
because none of us want you here and we dont care what you talk about so go
away|
|8/23/05 02:34:14 AM|charles|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|saw jerry fight
norton on classic tonight. kinda reminde me of the first frazier fight, lots of
bombs! if jerry had been in any kind of shape norton would have ko'd . he was
rocked severl times but jerry ran out of gas after the third round. i loved him
though!|
|8/23/05 03:11:24 AM|steve |nj||na||||10|Fan,a gentleman knows when it's time to
leave .I cannot liston to another long winded expertice post from Noam,or
RhoadsShcolorate,or her redundand boyfriend,Angelo.Good luck with the site.I bid
you goodbye.|
|8/23/05 04:45:41 AM|Italian Stallion|Philly||(Unknown)||||10|Posts praising
Jerry are too long and Steve leaves, when posts kicking Ali are okay and Steve
seems pleased. Bernard is scratching his head because he doesn't understand
Steve's cred.|
|8/23/05 07:27:34 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|This is a
page dedicated to Jerry Quarry and his family, so if the praise for Jerry seems
too long winded and bothers anyone, you all might want to find a "neutral"
boxing site. Steve: RS and I couldn't be further apart---she was a Frazier
junkie who actually believed that he would have beaten Ali in Manilla if there
was a 15th round. I'm an Ali guy---I respect Frazier as a top notch fighter but
not a top notch champion. If certain regulars here bore you with redundancy,
you can still enjoy the site and just skip over our posts. Shame to see you go.
Noam: Quarry did miss Liston, who was in decline as Jerry was rising. That
still would have been a very good fight. Liston had some gas left in the tank,
even as late as his last fight, 1970, against Wepner. God only knows how old he
was at that point, but he could still deliver that jab and was still durable.
Fighting is all he knew. As for Foreman, it's no secret that Quarry wanted
Foreman in the ring after the first round KO of Shavers. Wasn't it Gil Clancy
who (jokingly) asked where Foreman was? "We can't find him." It would have