January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

had something that Tillis had which could give Jerry a win over Tyson and almost
gave a win to Tills, and that is Jerry, like Tillis, would not be afraid of
Tyson.Jerry did take some bombs from some big hitters like Shavers, Mac
Foster, Lyle, Frazier, and Norton without, except for a knockdown in the second
Frazier fight from a body punch, going down.|
|10/4/05 06:26:27 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Kent: I
think Jerry would have his hands full with Tyosns quickness, even if he could
absorb Tyson's power. An in-prime Tyson was an attack pit bull, hard to fend
off. I agree with you though, that if Quarry avoided cuts, he'd have a chance.
Jerry was better than most of the guys Tyson ever fought. Quarry would stay
upright, no doubt about it. Quarry would make it into the middle and later
rounds if he didn't cut, and that would present problems for Tyson. |
|10/4/05 08:41:02 AM|Kent |Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|The
Klitschko Brothers, especially Vitali, would give Jerry huge, no pun intended,
problems. Because although they appear to be lumbering, clumsy fighters, they
have accurate fast combinations with both hands and they both work well off of
the jab.Wladimir K seems to get knocked down or out by anyone with some
power. He was down recently verses Sam Peter and in his previous bout against
Davaryl Williamson and of course his knockout losses to Sanders and Brewster.
Jerry would have the power to hurt Wladimir.Chris Byrd might land enough
punches to steal a decision away from Jerry and James Toney has very good
overall boxing skills to give Jerry a lot of trouble. I know a lot of people
are put off by Toney's bragging but the man knows his boxing, he really is a
smart fighter who knows all of the tricks of the trade.The other
contenders: I would give the edge to Jerry due to his speed and accurate
punches, including Hasim Rahman. Jerry could take his power and outbox him,
like he did verses Lyle.Regarding Sam Peter, the same scenario for a
fight with Rahman with Jerry outboxing him. Of course Peter is still young and
he has time to improve his skills.I also think Jerry could out box Lamon
Brewster, another similar fighter to Rahman and Peter.John Ruiz would be
a win for Jerry also as even though Ruiz would try and get rough with Jerry, it
wouldn't work as Jerry could get rough with the best of them.I think
Jerry Quarry would be a good bet to win at least one of the titles out there
today and maybe even more than one title.|
|10/4/05 08:50:55 AM|Joey|Canada||a||||10|I don't think that JERRY, God bless
him, would have survived TYSON '88-'90. TYSON was just to fast and powerful.
There is the argument "WHO DID HE FIGHT?" Well that's a legitimate question but
really who did any of the great modern heavies fight? MARCIANO fought a washed
up JOE LOUIS, LISTON fought ALI twice and lost both times, ALI fought LISTON,
FRAZIER and FOREMAN(losing 1 of 3 to FRAZIER, winning all others), FRAZIER
fought ALI(winning 1 of 3)and FOREMAN(losing twice), FOREMAN fought FRAZIER
twice, ALI once(lost the title), HOLMES fought a washed up ALI and lost to
TYSON, TYSON fought a washed up HOLMES and lost to LEWIS, LEWIS fought a washed
up TYSON. There were a lot of good fighters throughout this era(MACHEN,
PATTERSON, CHARLES, CHUVALO, QUARRY, LYLE, NORTON, SHAVERS just to mention a
few) but none of them were fighting at quite the level of the previously
mentioned. Typically there is 1 dominant heavyweight, who defeats most of the
contenders, during his brief reign as champion.|
|10/4/05 03:48:54 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Joey: You
answered your own question----guys like Ken Norton, Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers and
I'll add Mike Weaver, Leroy Jones, Jimmy Young, Jerry Quarry---with the
exception of Norton and Weaver, these guys didn't hold titles (and Norton didn't
defeat a Champion to earn his short-lived piece of the WBC title belt) but all
of these guys could perform well against the current crop of heavies. All of
the guys who knocked eachother off (Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Holmes) were fine
Champions who would box circles around most of our recent Champions. The point
is, contenders of yesteryear were as good or better than Champions of today.