January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

his winning effort over George Chuvalo in a very hard fought contest shows the
man could fight.Mathis was 30-4 in his career and his four losses were
to Frazier, Muhammad Ali, our own Jerry Quarry, and Ron Lyle, no shame in losing
to those guys.Noam, you can question Mathis' ranking as far as deserving
a title shot but the fact is he got the title shot and he came close to winning
it.You also can't judge his ablility by Frazier downplaying it as Joe
rarely gave other fighters any credit. In fact Frazier also said the Ellis
fights were easy but the tapes show differently, that he had to come from behind
in both those fights to win, as they do in the Mathis fight, a brutal hard
fought contest. |
|10/2/05 11:42:54 PM|Fan|USA||n/a||||10| First off - civility is the new
watchword, and that is a good thing. For all of the younger
fans, the MSG connection was truly a lynchpin in Jerry's career.The role of
MSG (Harry Markson and Teddy Brenner) in Jerry's sustained public prominence
cannot be underestimated. His biggest wins, Mathis, Foster, Lyle, Shavers, were
there in NYC. Without the support of the New York fans, I
respectfully submit, Jerry would not have gone as far as he did. He always
seemed to get another shot. And as often he made good on it. It is
an odd circumstance that the West Coast fans did not appreciate Jerry Quarry the
way the East Coasters did. For a time he was damn close to being a
"Superstar"........whatever that is. |
|10/3/05 08:58:10 AM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Fan, Jerry
did have a lot of fans here on the west coast, myself and my friends among them.
It was the west coast press who didn't support him, who put him down for every
loss but who didn't praise for the important wins Jerry had.I agree that
by putting down Buster Mathis as a fighter it diminishes one of Jerry's biggest
wins. As I said, Mathis could fight and he came in a 234 pounds, as compared to
243 for the Frazier fight, so he really trained hard for his fight with Jerry
and Jerry was brillant at 196 pounds, giving away almost forty pounds in weight
to Mathis.Mathis was at least as good, and about the same size as a lot
of the behemouths around today. So how would Jerry fair in the dvision today?
I would say pretty good.|
|10/3/05 10:12:41 AM|Fan|USA||n/a||||10| Yes Kent, he had the fans out West, as
you said it was the press who hounded him unfairly, and still do over at ESPN.
But NY loved him. even in his Garden losses - Frazier I and II, Chuvalo, Norton.
The only fighter who got louder ovations at MSG was Floyd Patterson, I guess
because he was actually from NYC. At his height, Jerry even made many
television appearances incuding roles in "I Dream of Jeanne", "Adam 12" and
"Land of the Giants", and, as I recall, he sang on the Hollywood Palace variety
show (I think the song was Glen Campbell's "By The Time I get To Phoenix".) Not
to mention the "Superstars" and some announcing. He was very good at just about
anything he tried. Jerry would have been one popular champ. It
just wasn't meant to be. I get a little sad whenever I see Randy Nuemann
(another MSG Quarry victory) refereeing, thinking it could have been Jerry.|
|10/3/05 02:32:00 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|i.e. the
"super big heavies" 1990-2005: Jerry would have had problems with Riddick Bowe
and Lennox Lewis giant reach. He might have suffered terrible cuts against
these guys. As for all the others, "Timber!" The other super tall or super
heavy heavyweights aren't/weren't in Jerry Quarry's class. |
|10/3/05 05:07:15 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallent@aol.com||||10|I used to think
Jerry would lose hands down to Mike Tyson, prime verses prime but although I
think Tyson's accurate power punching could also bust up Jerry's tender skin,
the intangibles such as heart would be in Jerry's favor.Consider that
James "Quick" Tillis at about 207 gave a near title winning Tyson all he could
handle and Jerry wasn't that much smaller than Tillis and Jerry was stronger and
he hit harder than Tillis.If he didn't get cut and if he lasted out of
the early rounds, which is a good bet as Jerrry could take a great punch, Jerry