January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

smirks at Kellerman's remarks on Friday night fights. Based on old time films
I've seen,didn't Dempsey have a distinct advantage over Marciano in that he
could hover over a fallen opponent, and hit him as soon as he tried to get
up,with no neutral corner rule?|
|3/15/03 05:35:02 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|STEVE: BEFORE JERRY'S UNTIMELY DEATH AND
RIGHT BEFORE THE FOUNDATION, HE SAID THEY QUARRY-ALI FIGHT,WAS THE SOFTEST TOUCH
IN BOXING HISTORY FOR ALI,WE ARE TALKING THE FIRST BOUT,SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE TOLD
HIM, HE WAS VIEWING THE SECOND BOUT,THAT THE FIRST BOUT WAS STOPPED ON THAT BAD
CUT, HE WAS GOING BY THE LAS VEGAS BOUT, THAT ESPN SHOWD OVER AND OVER AND OVER
AGAIN, JUST HAPPEND TO BE HIS WORST PERFORMANCE,SLAPSIE MAXIE, COULDN'T EVEN GET
HIS BOUTS STRAIGHT,AND MAKES BIG BUCKS $ FOR HIS LACK OF EFFORT,FOR YEARS!!THEN
ON THE SAME PROGRAM,HE SAID BONAVENA WAS THE "REAL" fighter,over Quarry and his
bout with Ali.I'D SAY jERRY WOULD HAVE BEATEN bONAVENA HANDILY, AND MAYBE EVEN A
KNOCKOUT!!|
|3/15/03 06:37:26 PM|Paul|Australia||PlMls||||10|Just a few comments on
Marciano. We can question the quality of his opponents, but as everyone knows
he can only beat whoever is put in front of him. Probably a more debatable
issue is whether the legend of Marciano would ever have begun had he been
fighting under today's 12 round championship rule ? Was he doing enough at the
end of the 12th round of his fight with Walcott to justify him taking the title
from the champion on points ? Probably not. And would he have won his first
fight with Charles had it also been over 12 rounds ? Probably, but it was
close, and under today's rules that fight might have been stopped much earlier
because of that wicked cut on Rocky's left eye. Also, Marciano weighed 184
pounds and would be a midget by today's standards and his short frame probably
couldn't fit any more bulk on it even with today's improved training techniques,
diet, etc. However, imagine how easily Marciano would have dominated the
cruiserweights of today with his devastating power. But the real measure of
Marciano's greatness was that no fighter was ever the same again after they
fought him. |
|3/15/03 07:48:12 PM|Bob Bumbera|NC||renfbera@aol.com||||10|Do any of you guy's
know if Marciano was going to buy Jerry's contract or at least a piece of it. I
read he droped the idea after Jerry lost to Machen or after the first Patterson
fight. I don't know anybody who knows boxing that would call Jerry a "soft
touch". Like I said Maxie is young. |
|3/15/03 10:08:16 PM|Steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|I don't think that
even Ali considered Jerry a "soft touch" in either of their fights.I think Jerry
on a good night would have easily outboxed Bonevena.After absorbing some hard
shots.I still have a problem with comparisons of Jack Dempsey and most modern
day champions.Again I refer to the old films where Dempsey is standing over his
opponent, and clubbing him when he starts to get up.|
|3/16/03 02:37:25 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@yahoo.com||||10|YOU SEE FELLOW STOOGES!!(AND I SAY THAT
WITH THEY UTMOST RESPECT KNUCK! KNUCK KNUCK!).IF MAX CONSIDERED JERRY A "SOFT
TOUCH".I HAVE NO QUALMS IN CONSIDERING HIM "MAXIE PAD".THATS HOW HE WOULD FARE
AGAINST JERRY,AND ESPECIALLY AS AN ANAYLST,PEOPLE FORGET,JERRY WON AWARDS OVER
HOWARD COSELL,HIS VERY FIRST YEAR FOR CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR,WITH TOM
BROOKSHIER,FOR HIS COMMENTARY,USED TO LOVE THEIR OPENING THEME AND MUSIC,(THEY
MADE IT EXCITING).MAXIE COULDN'T EVEN BEAT JERRY AS AN ANAYLST.AND HE'S BEEN
DOING IT AT LEAST SINCE 1992(YOU HAVE TO GROW UP SOMETIME,MAYBE THE BIG BUCKS
FOGS HIS BRAIN.OKAY ENOUGH OF "maxie pad"(SORRY LADIES).TO BOB:YES MARCIANO HAD
A BIG INTEREST IN BUYING THE QUARRY CONRTRACT.AND RENEGED AFTER HIS DEFEAT TO
MACHEN.|
|3/17/03 02:44:25 AM|Evren|London||evren@btinternet.com||||10|Jerry was never a
soft touch for anyone. He had 2 one sided losses to Frazier 2nd and Ali 2nd. Are
we to say the Tyson is a soft touch as he lost so onesided to Lewis? I don't