January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

that prime against prime he would have had a very good chance of beating Norton.
Ring Magazine in 1998 rated Jerry the 27th best heavyweight of all time. That
is about right. |
|5/18/02 07:44:52 PM|steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|i'm having trouble
with the idea of a fighter preparing for a title fight,having a serious back
injury,and his trainers and manager never picking up on it!i seem to remember
ali postponing a title fight for a hernia.just for fun , transpose holmes back
ten years,then match him against late sixties and early seventies
heavywieghts.my point being in all this conjecture,that,given the superior
competion of the time,and perhaps a better management team,quarry could have
very easily rated above both ellis and holmes,and again , norton,who seemed to
both fear and resent quarry, and was managed well enough to wait till jerry was
used up before fighting him.|
|5/18/02 08:30:14 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Steve, I am
not sure why Jerry's management, at the time his father Jack Quarry and Johnny
Flores, didn't listen to Jerry when he complained about being in pain. James
and Mike Quarry have both said their brother fought Ellis with a back injury and
James told me Jerry was put into a body cast not long after the fight. Jerry is
rated above Jimmy Ellis in most all time rankings and rightly so, as Jerry
overall was the better fighter. That is not to take anything away from Ellis,
who was a fine fighter in his own right. I find myself in a rare instance when
I appear to not be on Jerry's side when it comes to saying Larry Holmes was the
better fighter. I am one of Jerry's biggest fans and of course I think the
world of the Quarry family, Holmes was a master boxer, a top ten all time great
who would be a champion in just about any era. Like I said, the ring magazine
rankings of the all time greatest heavyweights was fair in regards to placing
Jerry at number 27 in their list of the top fifty of all time. I think he is
about number 20 to 25 but number 27 is objective. |
|5/18/02 09:06:37 PM|steve|nj||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|holmes'difficulty with
norton,weaver,his lack of competion in his era,make me think he was an
overexalted copy of ali.how would he have fared against joe frazier,george
foreman,a prime ken norton,or even , yes , a prime quarry?for all his boxing
skills,he seemed to turn some fights into wars.shavers,cooney. |
|5/19/02 05:12:01 AM|mark |southsea||mark.burgess7@ntlworld.com||||10|I have
just read an article from the philadelphia weekly dated 26 dec 2001 about the
sad life of jimmy young who has been battling drug addiction and apparently
suffering from dementia pugilistica, the very same condition in which jerry
quarry suffered from. Young like quarry did not duck
anybody,shavers,norton,ali,foreman,cooney,lyle,dokes,page, to name a few but now
as he fights his biggest battle i hope and pray there is some light at the end
of the tunnel! I personally think young was one of best
heavyweights there has been,i think wins over lyle,foreman plus very
controversial losses to ali & norton and a debatable draw with shavers confirm
this.I also think if young kept his weight and conditioning together
particularly after the norton fight he could of been world champ(well WBA champ
young i dont think would have beaten holmes for the WBC title).|
|5/19/02 04:19:43 PM|Daniel|San Francisco,Ca.||CORERMAN@AOL.COM||||8|Quarry was
a unpredictable fighter who could have beaten Foreman if Foreman had analyzed
Quarry from his fights with Ellis,Chuvalo,Ali and Frazier.You never knew what
mind set Quarry had going into a fight ala Spencer,Mathis, Foster, Shavers and
Lyle. I think Quarry would be up for Foreman circa 1971-early 1974.|
|5/20/02 09:26:04 AM|Gerry Schultz|ohio||jgschultz@firstam.com||||9|To respond
to Evren, I beleive having the abilty to defeat someone, and being a better
overall fighter than someone are not the same thing. Quarry, in my opinion was
clearly a better boxer than Frazier, and clearly had the edge after Round 2 in
their first fight, so he did have the ability to defeat him. There are some
interesting similarities between the two, both known for their courage,