January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

decision, many thought Williams won. Witherspoon, lost a close decision, many
people thought Witherspoon won. Renauldo Snipes knocked Holmes down and almost
out. Earnie Shavers knocked Holmes down, and almost out. Michael Spinks, won 2
decisions over Holmes. Comparing Cooney's fight with Holmes,to these fights, and
quite frankly Cooney's loss is not that impressive.Make no mistake,Larry
Homles was a great fighter. HE HAD THAT FIRE IN HIS BELLY.|
|7/3/03 01:39:53 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|TO DAN CUNNINGHAM:
Dan, believe me,Cooney would NOT have "eaten up" Chuvalo.Chuvalo would
have ended it around the ninth round. He could take it and dish it out to both
the head and body. |
|7/3/03 04:25:02 PM|Malcolm
Donaldson|England||mjdonaldson1955@aol.com||||10|Jerry was my all time favorite
fighter -great to watch-great to listen to...so sad to how the great man went
down hill..very nice to read all the coments about him.|
|7/3/03 05:51:02 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|I agree Chuvalo would have stopped
Cooney late or Cooney would grab onto a decision - 'grab' being the optimum word
- so many done this against George.|
|7/4/03 01:42:54 AM|Ed|Cicero N Y||mooseygoop@aol.com||||10|I recently read that
Chuvalo's mind is still sharp as a tack and that he has an excellant memory and
everything, which in itself is amazing considering he took enough punches to
stun about 3 elephants. Has to be one of the toughest heavys of all time.|
|7/4/03 02:04:09 PM|Kent|La Habra. Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|I remember Mr.
Jimmy (James Quarry) saying that there was a gene present in the body that shows
whether or not Puglistic Dementia (Punch Drunk Syndrome), shows up in a fighter.
He also said there was a test available to see if a fighter is likely to become
damaged later but a company owns the patent to it and they are not letting it
out for a reasonable price. This is too bad because a potential fighter could
make a more imformed decision to go into boxing or not. Punch Drunk Syndrome
usually takes one of two forms, one has sympthoms like Altzeimer's disease,
which Jerry had and the other has sympthoms like Parkinson's disease, whihc
Muhammed Ali appears to have. Georg Chuvalo apparently doesn't have the gene
that causes those afflictions |
|7/5/03 03:00:51 AM|Dan Cunningham|San Francisco,Ca.||DGCSOCCER@AOL.COM||||10|On
May 25,1980, Gerry Cooney destroyed a 31 yr old Jimmy Young who was still at the
time of their fight, a masterful boxer puncher. Immediately following the Cooney
fight, Young ko'd an undefeated Gordon Racette(25-0), won decesions over former
amateur stand out , Marvin Stinson(12-1-3), Jeff Sims(12-1), Tom Fisher(30-6-1)
and Tom Franco Thomas(24-2) before losing a decision to top rated and future
heavyweight champion,Greg Page who was 18-0 at the time of their bout in 1982.
It should be noted that Cooney broke down a character by the name of ST Gordon
who felt one of Cooneys left hooks and literally ran away from him in the ring
before he was disqualified. This same ST Gordon later became Cruiserweight
champion of the world. |
|7/5/03 05:12:00 PM|R. U. Kidding|Never Never Land||Get real .com||||10|Mr.
Cunningham, until I read your post I did not realize what a great fighter Gerry
Cooney was. What really sold me was the lineage shared between Cooney and the
great fighters Jimmy Young beat after losing to Cooney. Mr. Cunningham, you
have convinced me that not only Gerry Cooney belongs in the Hall of Fame, but
also Jimmy Young too! Boy oh boy, what man eating tigers Jimmy Young whipped
after the Cooney fight!|
|7/6/03 03:26:12 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|Jimmy Young also lost to Ossie Ocasio
twice before losing to Cooney. He did however beat Donald Halpin !|
|7/6/03 02:27:41 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Evren: TALK about people holding
Chuvalo,George was the "best ever "at the hold and hit,I can remember referee
Zach Clayton's instructions for QUARRY-CHUVAL,"I WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY HOLDING
AND HITTING!" then watched as George's entire offense was clinching and hitting