January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

eason why Quarry-Bonavena was cancelled was because Oscar broke his left hand.
After the operation he fought Patterson instead at the Garden (and lost).
Patterson had just turned down a fight with Kirkman in Seattle promoted by Jack
Hurly.|
|3/18/03 01:10:25 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Tyson would stop Quarry in the manner
Frazier did. Too quick and too good is Mr Tyson. Definitely in my top ten (of
which there are fifteen!!)|
|3/18/03 02:53:55 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Jerry was a very
good, gutsy fighter, but Tyson would have been too much for him. Too fast, too
strong. Shavers, Lyle, and Foster did not have Tyson's hand speed or ability to
throw combinations from all angles. |
|3/18/03 04:15:13 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|The question
was could Jerry beat the Tyson of the last ten years, not an in prime Tyson. I
think Jerry at his best may have been able to take a past his prime but a still
very dangerous Tyson but an in prime Tyson, I don't think Jerry could beat that
version.|
|3/18/03 04:29:50 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|I DON'T KNOW I'D RATHER SEE JERRY IN
THERE WITH TYSON,THEN EITHER HOLYFIELD OR LENNOX LEWIS,TO ME TYSON'S THEY MOST
OVERRATED CHAMP IN HISTORY,AND LARRY HOLMES PROBABLY THEY MOST UNDERRATED,I KNOW
ONE THING YOU ALL MIGHT AGREE WITH,WHOMEVER FOUGHT JERRY (SAY TOP 20). FROM 1965
TONY DOYLE TO 1977 LORENZO ZANON,AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN ALI.FRAZIER,NORTON,LYLE
SHAVERS,FOSTER,CHUVALO,ETC,WHERE ALL IN TIP TOP SHAPE, THAT TELLS YOU SOMETHING
ABOUT MR.QUARRY,I'LL DIG FOR THAT ARTICLE ON BONAVENA-QUARRY AND WHY IT WAS
POSTPONED !|
|3/18/03 05:26:25 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|John, you
are probably right about Tyson vs. Quarry. The one wild card in that fight
would be if Jerry intimidated Tyson by not fearing him. As we saw when Tyson
fought Hollyfield. When Tyson could not intimidate someone he became an ordinary
fighter. Where as Quarry when he thought he could beat someone he became next to
unbeatable. It would be a long shot. Strangely enough, I think Bonavena would
have given Jerry fits, and probably have beaten Tyson. Simply because Bonavena
did not fear anyone. He could bang, he didn't cut, and he was as strong as an
ox.Tyson would have become discouraged; and probably quit. Did you know
Bonavena was born in Argentina, but his parents were born in Italy (shades of
Jake LaMotta).|
|3/18/03 07:38:44 PM|Keith White|Seattle, WA||QUARRYJKW74@AOL.com||||10|Could
the George Foreman that bombed out Joe Frazier in 2 rounds(1973) beat the Mike
Tyson of the last 10 years???? And MAYBE the Tyson in his prime???? Did you
guys know that the only fighter that big George Foreman EVER ducked was Jerry
Quarry? Unbelievable! It was obvious to the world at the time(1973-74) that
Jerry REALLY deserved and earned a title shot with big George.... George
Foreman announced at the Quarry-Shavers fight that he was going to fight the
winner of that bout; he backed out.... Would have a Mike Tyson of the last 10
years feared Jerry right after his stunning KO of Shavers just like big George
Foreman did? When Jerry Quarry was in his prime he had the awesome ability to
combine punching speed AND power with great footwork and counter-punching
skills.... |
|3/19/03 03:26:06 AM|Paul|Australia||PlMls||||10|Forest, you are right about
Tyson and Holyfield. I think Holyfield spooked Tyson when he looked him directly
in the eye at the weigh-in and said: "You don't bother me one bit." Holyfield
won the mind games and therefore the fight right there and then. I recall
reading something Teddy Atlas said years ago when asked about the outcome of a
hypothetical fight between Ali and Tyson. Atlas said that Ali would have played
mind games with Tyson in the first six rounds and then knocked him out in the
seventh. Many in boxing realised at an early stage that Tyson was mentally
fragile. Regarding Bonavena, he was definitely one tough nut and he pushed Ali