January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

flies with a jar of honey. The name of the game is PROFESSIONAL BOXING. They
were not amatuers fighting for medals they were pros fighting for money. It is
not that hard to understand.One more thing a while back after much
prodding Noam published the records of those fighters in the WBA Tournament
prior to the Tournament. Most of them fought beat stiffs leading up to the
Tournament or were soundly beaten Ali.Come on guys loosen up and get
real. Frazier beat Ellis, Quarry, Bonevena after the WBA Tournament and made a
hell of a lot more money than if he fought them in the Tournament, and so did
they.|
|10/11/05 04:25:16 PM|Fan|Fandom||Fan@Fandom.com||||8|I guess eventually we
would run out of topics. Maybe we are there now. |
|10/11/05 04:41:25 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Kent, thanks for your sentiments. I
only mentioned the deaths when I first did to explain why I was delayed in
responding to other posts. As you say, memories live on. The distressing time
would be when you have more memories living on than living relatives. If we are
lucky enough to live long enough, we'd also be unlucky enough to experience that
change in balance. Every silver lining has a cloud, I suppose.Fan. What
do you want to talk about ? Have you run out of ideas ? |
|10/11/05 11:57:44 PM|Jonathan Quarry|Las Vegas||quarrytw3@yahoo.com||||10|Since
i have not spoken on this site for a while i kind of feel left out of the loop
and am not real sure where to start on this topic, anyway in the past tarver
jones fight, jones was very tentative and afraid to throw punches mainly due to
the fear of getting hit with that left hand again, but when he did open up in
the 4th and 5th rounds he was scoring and hitting tarver well, my question is do
you believe it is possible for jones to still be a serious threat if he can just
get over the fear of a knockout, he still has the hand speed and he still has
the power, he is just afraid of that big punch... id appreciate some input on
this subject if anybody would be willing to share their opinion, other than that
i appreciate everyone who keeps coming to this site and sharing their opinion, i
have not been able to get on to much because i am constantly training to go
overseas again, but just letting everyone know that this site helps pass the
time while i am gone, again thanks for supporting my father everyone and i hope
to get more involved in these discussions later on|
|10/12/05 02:37:26 AM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Welcome back
Johnathan and thanks again for your service to our country.I don't
believe Jones is afraid of getting hit, it is just his style and he doesn't
match up well with Tarver, who he did beat once by a close decision before he
was knocked out and before losing their third fight recently by
decision.Tarver, due to his left handed stance and also because he too
is very fast, along with him being a tall fighter would be a hard fight any time
they fought.I thought the fight was closer than the announcers were
saying it was and even closer than the judges scored it as Jones was counter
punching well in a lot of rounds but Tarver had the edge so the decision was
fair. Tarver did enough to win by about two points. I don't know how
it was scored without looking it up but I felt a lof of the rounds were
close.I really think that if Jones was afraid of getting hit, he
wouldn't have fought Tarver again after getting knocked out. Remember
too Jones was also knocked out by Glen Johnson before his second loss to Tarver.
He showed a lot of heart by taking on a dangerous fighter like Tarver
again.Jones still has a lot of skills left but I think he should retire
as he has accomplished a lot in his career so why risk getting hurt by
continuing to fight? He has nothing left to prove.|
|10/12/05 03:57:45 AM|Howard C.|Louisville||howardc@louisville||||10|Pete hit
the nail on the head with his (latest) Smokin Joe Frazier post. Frazier had the
smartest pound-for-pound money man in boxing history. Getting Joe only
$20,000.00 less for fighting the easy Mathis than the $170,000.00 for fighting
the WBA's Quarry, Ellis, and Bonavena, was pure financial wizardry. This