January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

worked up the balls to fight him.To quote his book,"I'll freely admit that I did
not like him.Quarry was the only man whom I fought in anger,and I went in to
punish him.With Quarry,I wanted to pick him apart,savage him with body
punches,snap his head back with jabs,and cut up his face.I wanted him to be
carried ouy on a stretcher."Thats a quote ,folks.Page 97.Pretty ironic comming
from a guy who folded every time he faced a guy as big and strong as himself.|
|5/5/06 03:36:15 PM|Steve|nj||na||||10|In Norton's book,"Going the
Distance".Norton portrays himself as an amiable soul,who doesen't really want to
seriously hurt anyone.That is ,untill he finally gets his change with a
completly wash up Quarry,who was given two weeks to train.Exactly when Norton
worked up the balls to fight him.To quote his book,"I'll freely admit that I did
not like him.Quarry was the only man whom I fought in anger,and I went in to
punish him.With Quarry,I wanted to pick him apart,savage him with body
punches,snap his head back with jabs,and cut up his face.I wanted him to be
carried ouy on a stretcher."Thats a quote ,folks.Page 97.Pretty ironic comming
from a guy who folded every time he faced a guy as big and strong as himself.|
|5/5/06 07:36:57 PM|Jim|Ohio||decline||||10|Hey, I'm new to the site. Cool video
scrapbook on Jerry. I haven't seen too many of his fights, but the ones I have,
he seemed great.|
|5/5/06 09:14:44 PM|charles anderson|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|Angelo, Ken
simply froze when he fought fighters that could hit, case in point, Foreman, (
who wouldn't ) but he was knocked cold bysome cat named Garcia, who you never
heard from again. Jerry was not scared by Shavers, Lyle, who were pretty hard
punchers. The best fight he may have fought and won was probaly against Ron Lyle
when he " boxed beautifully " for 12 rounds. i liken Norton to both of these
guys get him early or box his ears off. No doubt a about it Ken whipped him but
we all know Jerry was in no shape to fight anyone that day. Sad but true, I
lived and died with every Jerry Quarry fight and I miss him very much. Thanks
for your reply.|
|5/6/06 10:56:51 AM|max hord|fernandina bch,fla||maxhord@adelphia.net
||||10|Liked the comment on the gym fighter phenomenon.I too knew a guy that
looked like a world champion in the gym but man when he got in the arena he was
180 degrees the other way most of the time.Maybe it's the crowd or uncertainty
that a fighter faces when going "live".I took seveal beatings from Elisha O'bed
in the gym and I doubt I would have lasted that long in a real contest.Mind
games?|
|5/6/06 03:49:52 PM|Steve|NJ||na||||10|Charles,it never fails to anger me when I
think about that fight.The rumor was,{as I picked it up on this site},that Jerry
was partying in Hawaia and was pretty well buzzed when he got the call for the
Norton fight to be held in only several weeks.He,or his handlers ,agreed to
it.Who was handling him,the Three Stooges?Why not negotiate for more time to
train.Truth is ,though,Jerry was already a shot fighter,and shouldn't have been
allowed to fight anyone,let alone Ken Norton.|
|5/6/06 10:19:35 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Steve you are
right, Jerry should have retired after the second Frazier fight. The Norton
fight and all of those afterwards should have never happened.In that
fight Jerry came in good shape and although he had a couple of good rounds,
rounds one and two, after that Frazier dominated as Jerry just didn't have it.
That should have been a huge warning sign that it was time for Jerry to pack it
in.I believe even if Jerry had come into the Norton fight in shape he
would have taken a beating. It might have lasted longer and Jerry may have had
a few more good rounds but the end at that point in Jerry's career would have
been the same.|
|5/7/06 10:51:44 AM|koo koo clock|wood allen
ville||kookoo000@yahoo.com||||10|kent i stronging disagree with you about jerry
not being able to beat norton(if he was ready), it's easy to look at the norton
fight and think that guys too big for jerry , to strong, but the thing about