January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

against Berbick and have a few close rounds. Basically, it amazes me that a 40
year old guy already suffering physical nerve damage and slowed down by age AND
physiological factors still managed to hold his own against a top 10 heavyweight
in his 20's. |
|9/3/03 05:37:40 PM|Massimo|Rome||CarnerabetterthanWilt.com||||10|Even Ali'-
Frazier 2 was a wonderful fight !Roadscholarette-I have Ali' ahead
6-5-3 in Manilla, but it's a very difficult fight to score !|
|9/3/03 05:49:59 PM|Gerry Schultz|Ohio||jgschultz11@msn.com||||9|Thanks, Kent
regarding Mike Q. Seems like being a Quarry worked against Mike in those long
duels, though he clearly did show himself to be an excellent boxer, a credit to
the sport. About Ken Norton, I think he's one of the most underrespected heavies
ever. He had Ali's number in the 70's, and did not get a fair call vs. Holmes,
who like Holyfield, was pushed as the champ people wanted. JQ did respect Jim
Brown as a super athlete I'm sure, but a match between the two wouldn't go four
rounds. Despite that, I doubt the same respect was returned by the arrogant
race-fixated Brown toward Jerry. I agree the Klitschkoes must gain some real W's
to be seen as the division's best, and given the state of the division now, I
think they'll come. Good to see some positive posts on Riddick Bowe, who had the
package to be a dominant heavy, a huge wasted talent like Greg Page. |
|9/3/03 06:23:11 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Funny how
people disrepected JQ's ablity in the ring. Jim Brown thinking he could take
Jerry in the boxing ring? That is really funny, I didn't know Brown was such a
comedian. Jim Brown may have faired better in boxing than other footballers
like Mark Gastineau and Ed Too Tall Jones but not much better. But then again,
he may not have. Remember I mentioned Michael Jordan's jounrney into
professional baseball as an example of being great in one sport but not in
another. Jordan a hall of famer in basketball but a mediocre minor league
baseball player.It is not just other sports people who had no respect
for JQ. I remember reading where Rahman Ali (aka Rudy Clay), Muhammad's
brother, once told his brother that he wanted to fight JQ and that he could kick
Jerry's ass. Muhammad told Rahman that it was a bad decision and that the result
would be the other way around! Rahman Ali lost convincingly to Englishman Danny
MaCilinden (spelling), who was probably not as good as countryman Jack Bodell,
who Jerry desroyed in one round. Jerry would have done the same thing to the
other Ali brother.Part of the disrepect people showed for JQ's abiltiy
could be because sportscasters like Howard Cosell would make comments like "not
many have that distinction," when referring to the fact that Ron Lyle had lost
to Jerry. Cosell said this, as memory serves me, in the prefight comments in
Lyle's title challenge agaisnt Muhammad Ali.|
|9/3/03 07:44:12 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||ronnyrains@yahoo.com||||10|I'm sure Jim Brown had a lot of respect
for Jerry,I KNOW DEACON JONES DID(as they were partners in a few business
endeavors).Brown's favorite running back was John Riggins there for awhile, I
think big Jim saw things as they were,more often than not.And not as the
rascist,as he sometimes is portrayed.|
|9/3/03 07:52:20 PM|Tubby Breslin|Fullerton,
CA||bearstubastanchu@aol.com||||7|OK, you guys and gals have taken the offensive
but I'm counterpunching, scoring with jabs and hooks, driving you into your
corner and pummeling your midsection with my powerful expertise. First,
Jim Brown was such a phenomenal athlete that he is the one out of them all who
could have become a great boxer with some training and instruction. The man is
6'4", 230. Not only is he one of the dozen or so best football players of all
time, but he is also often called the best lacrosse player of all time, and it
was a sport he only learned in college. Now, if some of you want to
believe Archie Moore and Sandy Saddler or any other career boxer is
neurologically normal, speaks and understands speech normally, and was not
damaged by his boxing career, be my guest. You'd be convincing if you had a