January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

SMACKEDHIM RIGHT OFF THE BAT AND I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTENIT. I WAS
REAL CLOSE RINGSIDE AND MR.QUARRY JUST DRILLED HIM BIG TIME|
|4/1/03 06:15:46 PM|Daryl Breese|Bakersfield||calbreese@aol.com||||10|The
International Boxing Hall of Fame recently inducted George Foreman, who admits
to have ducked Jerry intentionally. Gerry Cooney was at the Golf Tournament and
Ernie Shavers was in the Parade of Champions. Patterson is in the hall. Still,
sadly, Jerry is not. Their website is www.IBHOF.com. Their induction criteria
appears to be in a state of flux, and possibly now is the correct time to
petition for Jerry's entry. He did more for boxing than possibly, what seems
like just a handful of people, when considering his pugilistic dementia was a
catalyst that spawned federal legislation that will be his legacy for
generations to come. |
|4/2/03 02:10:43 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|Why would George Foreman avoid Jerry
Quarry when he took on Joe Frazier, Ken Norton and Muhammad Ali? All of whom
beat Jerry handily. I love Jerry and I feel the same way about George. Foreman
has a habit of putting himself down to enlarge the standing of former
opponents.|
|4/2/03 04:43:21 AM|Kent |La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Evren, we have
discussed this subject before but here goes again. George was in the audience
the night Jerry destroyed Earnie Shavers and he told Jerry right after the
fight, "you just blew your title shot." The way I understand it, George sounded
like he was joking but there was clearly some truth to his statement as he never
fought Jerry. Jerry had the ablilty, because of his counter punching style and
his ability to take a punch, to handle big strong punchers. Jerry had knocked
out Shavers quickly, had taken some very hard shots from Ron Lyle but he still
outboxed Lyle for a decision victory, and Jerry had taken every thing Mac Foster
had to give and came back to knock Foster out. Could Jerry had done the same
thing to Foreman? I don't know but he had a better chance of beating Foreman,
because of Jerry's style, than either Norton or Frazier because Jerry could
fight more effectively backing up than either of these two fighters, who both
were good at moving into their opponents, which played right into Foreman's
strength. Another factor was money as Foreman went where the bigger money was
by taking on Ali instead of Jerry. Foreman may have thought that fighting Jerry
could at least risk somewhat his chance later of making more money agaisnt Ali.
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|4/2/03 07:05:06 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|MY TAKE ON QUARRY-
FOREMAN: I agree 100% that Jerry should have gotten a title shot after Shavers
and Lyl.e. I disagree however when people say he would have beaten Foreman. Lyle
was much slower than Foreman and Shaver's jaw did not match his power. If you
look at the tape of Quarry-Norton carefully you will see that Norton did not
just outbox Jerry, he out slugged him too. And Norton was about 1/2 the puncher
George was. I think Bonavena and Jerry would have been a much more competitive
fight. I shudder to think what George's jab would have done to the skin around
Jerry's eyes. Jerry was a very, very good one, George was a great one. And I
respect them both tremendously.|
|4/2/03 07:05:16 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|MY TAKE ON QUARRY-
FOREMAN: I agree 100% that Jerry should have gotten a title shot after Shavers
and Lyl.e. I disagree however when people say he would have beaten Foreman. Lyle
was much slower than Foreman and Shaver's jaw did not match his power. If you
look at the tape of Quarry-Norton carefully you will see that Norton did not
just outbox Jerry, he out slugged him too. And Norton was about 1/2 the puncher
George was. I think Bonavena and Jerry would have been a much more competitive
fight. I shudder to think what George's jab would have done to the skin around
Jerry's eyes. Jerry was a very, very good one, George was a great one. And I
respect them both tremendously.|
|4/2/03 09:39:13 AM|max hord|fernandina Bch,Fla||rasluc@msn.com||||10|Foreman
was really easy to hit.Most of his opponents,not all would back or stay away