January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

alone. But I'm not sure about some situations. At a "low" 190 or so, I
think Joe Louis would have been a good match for practically anybody, including
Big George, Ali at 225, Frazier at 220 etc. Possibly Billy Conn the same way.
After all, JQ was "small" and might have been champ if he hadn't cut and bled
pretty easily. Incidentally -- although I agree JQ may have been a Top 10 All-
Timer -- what I've always admired most about him was his shark-like killer's
instinct. When he hurt you, he followed and when he hurt you bad, 9 out of 10
times you were done. Just one more thing and I'll shut up. A couple of
people here wondered why JQ didn't quit or why his corner didn't quit in
Frazier2 and other fights. To me the answer is simple. He was Irish. No, I'm
serious. I was taught by my uncles making us boy cousins fight from when we were
4 or 5 years on. The one thing you HAD to learn was NEVER EVER QUIT. Even if
your guy knocked your head loose and it was hanging by a single tendon, YOU DO
NOT QUIT. I think Jimmy and Kent and others will agree. (There can be a bad side
to that, too.) Great site. Oscar de La Hoya looked sharp, but he is not even
50% of what he once was. |
|5/13/06 09:23:19 AM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Hello Eugene,
I grew up in La Habra, just down the road from you and I had lived there again
for about six years until a year ago.I do disagree about a fighter's
corner having a responsibility to protect their fighter by asking the referee to
stop a fight or for not letting a fighter come out for a round if he is hurt too
badly, a good corner man knows his fighter better than anyone and they can tell
when something isn't right.I do agree that a fighter should have the
attitude that he himself will never quit. If they don't have this attitude, the
warrior attitude, then they are in the wrong profession.I remember the
story that Mr. Jimmy Quarry, Jerry's brother, telling me that Jerry was working
the corner of their brother Mike's third fight with Mike Rossman and Mike had
suffered a bad cut and Jerry had the referee stop the fight. Well Mike was
upset with Jerry for stopping the fight but I believe it was the right decision
and that if the situation was reversed and it was Mike who was working the
corner and he had one of Jerry's fights stopped, it would have been Jerry who
would have been mad at Mike for doing so. My point is the Jerry did what was
best for the fighter.I realize the final authority to stopping a fight
is the the referee and/or the ringside doctor but I don't think any competant
referee would ignore the advice of a fighter's corner to stop a fight or at
least they shouldn't ignore it.||5/16/06 05:01:00 PM|Carl
Weingarten|TJQF||TJQF||||10|Sorry about the spam my good friends. I made a
change to the code, which should rope-a-dope them again for a while. Thanks for
hanging in there! --Carl|
|5/16/06 05:04:59 PM|Carl Weingarten|TJQF||TJQF||||10|Sorry about the spam my
good friends. I made a change to the code, which should rope-a-dope them again
for a while. Thanks for hanging in there! --Carl|
|5/16/06 09:39:10 PM|Steve|NJ||NA||||10|Hi Angelo,I'm telling you this dumb
story because you mentioned getting KO'D once and I thought you might appreciate
it.In 1966,while in training at Fort Jackson,South Carolina,I was punched so
hard in the temple, that I only remember one sensation.That was my face smashing
into the tarmac.I never saw or felt the punch.|
|5/16/06 09:52:44 PM|Steve|NA||NA||||10|Hi Eugene,wellcome to the site,you dumb
ass Irishman.You and Kent[who is a known trouble maker on this site},seem to
agree that being Irish is a good excuse for never quiting in a fight untill
you've gotten your ass thouroughly kicked.I agree with both of you.|
|5/17/06 04:32:43 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Hey guys, how many Sonny Liston's
fights have you seen ? I have seen the 2 Patterson fights, the 2 Ali' fights,
Roy Harris, the highlights with Eddie Machen and Chuck Wepner and the
secondCleveland Williams fight. I wish I had seen more as Sonny Liston is
one of my favourite heavyweights. Any of you (Fan, Kent, Steve,Angelo, Jimmy
Dorsey,John Gerald etc.) have seen other Liston's fights, with Zora Folley, Nino