January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

courageous fighter, and if he didn't cut so easy, he could've been a world
champion."|
|10/9/03 12:43:40 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Welcome
Muffinman, great handle. When has Brother DKS appeared on this page of late? I
always enjoyed his posts even if at times we didn't always agree or even get
along (other times we did). I always respected his opinions. DKS did shake
things up around here but at times this is needed around here. I hope DKS drops
by here sometime. |
|10/9/03 02:20:41 AM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|Paul-You' re right. We saw it
last time in his loss against Lewis. I remember that at the beginninig of the
fight I was thinking " Oh good ! We are gonna have an exciting fight ! ". At
the end of the third round Tyson came back to the corner with a little injury.
After this, Tyson completely disappeared from the ring ! At his peak,
Tyson was a great or almost great fighter ! There was a moment I believed Tyson
was invincible ! He beat a lot of good fighters ( Berbick, Smith , Thomas,
Tucker, Bruno, Stewart, Ruddock... A long list !), but I think his losses and
mostly the way he lost, reduce a lot his greatness as a fighter. Anyway, he
remembers probably the best heavyweight of the 80s. This is not a little
achievement...|
|10/9/03 08:17:46 AM|Sonia Hathaway (Quarry)|Joshua Tree,
CA||Sonia81@aol.com||||10|Hey all its cool to read the posts, adding excitement
to it. Keep it up Coo Coo, Kent, and all you others, as long as we keep it all
good. Have a good one.|
|10/9/03 10:38:57 AM|Massimo|Rome||5||||10|To Sonia Quarry-Sonia, I'm
shocked !! The right way of writing ( or to write ? I try with of writing... It
sounds better !) its cool is ( please, listen to me !) isIT'S COOL. Have you
understood ? Learn English my friend ! You're lucky that I'm a kind and generous
man and if you want a can help you with English. But I'm not going to travel to
the USA ! You have to come here and you have to pay the travel )))) ( KooKoo
taught me that, thanks KooKoo)|
|10/9/03 11:13:41 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|It's
interesting that three all time greats who fought in Jerry Quarry's era,
Foreman, Frazier and Ali, at one time or another, wrote or talked about how good
Jerry Quarry was. These guys didn't owe Jerry anything then or now, and I
believe were offering unbiased opinions. I think after the second fight with
Quarry, Ali had some good things to say about how Quarry wouldn't quit and just
kept coming.I've always wondered about Frazier not fighting often---and not
fighting all the top contenders.I can't imagine he ducked anyone.|
|10/9/03 12:22:31 PM|Kent|La Habta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Angelo, I
think a lot of fighters' decisions as to who they fight are the work of their
managers and that figthters seldom intentially avoid other fighters. For
example, George Foreman didn't fight Jerry because he wanted to take the bigger
money fight with Ali, not because he didn't think he could beat Jerry. His
managers thought Jerry represented at least some risk to the bigger money fight
with Ali. I think they figured, why take a potentially tough fight, even one
that George was likely to win, if they could get the Ali fight with no risk at
all?Another example from way back is Jack Dempsey not fighting Harry
Wills, the long time number one contender. Dempsey himself was said to want to
fight any and all comers but his management reportedly paid Wills off to step
aside. I have seen a figure of $50,000, at that time a very hefty sum. Wills,
of course, was always denied a shot at the title because he was black. Did
Dempsey's managment think that Jack couldn't beat Wills? Who knows? All I can
say is it was a shame Wills was denied his chance. |
|10/9/03 01:38:30 PM|MUFFINMAN|ZANZIBAR||ZANZIB@R||||10|Koo Koo is an
igonoramus! Koo Koo is The Opinionated Brother!Bicycle, Bicycle I want to ride
my Bicycle...|
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