January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

contender, Stan Ward. Ward KOed him early in the fight. This was the mid-70's
and Merrit's better years were behind him. |
|5/29/03 01:53:36 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Wow. I have no
recollection of a heavy named Leroy Jones back in the 70's. Who did heever
beat? I do remember Al Blue Lewis. A very good heavy who got robbed against
Bonavena in Buenos Aires.|
|5/29/03 09:02:53 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Leroy Jones
was a huge heavyweight, 6'5" over 250 pounds who fought Larry Holmes in the
early 80s for the title and lost by eighth round TKO. He was undefeated when he
got his title shot with his biggest win a decision over Mike Weaver. He only had
one or two more fights after his loss to Holmes and he retired. Kind of an
enigma in that he was very quick for his size and he showed some promise but he
often battled a weight problem, weighing at times as much as 275 pounds. He
just disppeared from the scene not long after his loss to Holmes.|
|5/30/03 07:00:35 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|I do remember
Florida Al Jones, a very large southpaw heavy trained by Angelo and Chris
Dundee. He was about 6'6" and 240 lbs. I think he was the liate 60's early
70's.|
|5/30/03 10:03:27 PM|Joe Krause|Chicago||sadmspats@yahoo.com||||10|Leroy Jones
was thumbed in the eye in the Holmes fight and retired and never fought again
because of a detached retina. Jones was a poor man's Buster Mathis. Prime
Quarry would have walked right through him, mid-70's Quarry probably still wins
pretty easily. Florida Al Jones tore his rotator cuff against Luis Pires and
still fought to draw. Tough akward southpaw who could punch a little. Liked to
hold and grab and punch at the same time. Was in the top 10 when he tore the
shoulder and was never the same. Take care.|
|5/31/03 12:44:12 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Joe K.,that was the perfect way to
describe Leroy Jones from Denver,(A POOR MAN'S BUSTER MATHIS).I Agree totally,He
beat the inexperienced Weaver.And that was probably his biggest win,lack of a
major league wallop like Bugner hinderd his career.Bunny Johnson from England
was around in that time.I first met MIKE QUARRY in bakersfield, right after his
bout with Johnson in Australlia.(Mike lost on a cut in the 7th).Johnson also was
ranked # 3 for a while,And just about won every round against Duane Bobick in
Munich,then suddenly quit on his stool for the 9th round mysteriously,what about
Bugner-johnson?? Evern?|
|6/2/03 09:21:45 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|I remember seeing
Bobick getting kayoed by the South African Kallie Knoutze. Bobick was in my mind
one of the biggest false alarms ever. Cooney and Morrison would have kayoed him
and JQ would have fitted him for a wheel chair. |
|6/3/03 01:23:18 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|JERRY QUARRY'S CAREER WAS SO
INTERESTING:For it seemed every bout he had,there was a little controversy,I
never knew he hit the deck momentarily until i sent off for a microfilm listing
of his bout with Roy Crear in Texas,The George Chuvalo ending,decked after the
bell vs Rufus Brassell,koing Brian London, only after the timer's made a mistake
and ended the round a minute to early in Oakland,Had 10 great MSG BOUTS.his
family engaging in the war in Vegas and ALI II.Frazier and TEDDY BRENNER almost
having heart failure,when Jerry took on the hard punching lefthooker JOE
ALEXANDER FOR A TUNEUP!Coming from behind to finish highly touted Mac Foster
with a Major league assortment of punches,There just always seemed like
something controversial was going on with Jerry,it sure would make for a great
movie, I HAVE A FRIEND THAT IS THE SPITING IMAGE OF A 1970 JQ, BUILD THE WAY HE
TALKED EVERYTHING!|
|6/3/03 01:54:14 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|I also remember
Jerry being behind on points in his fight with Randy Neuman until he hit Randy
with quite a low punch in the 7th round. He took charge after that.|