January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|10/20/03 12:38:30
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|The ability to hit
hard, ~really~ hard, is a genetic gift. Anyone can work out and practice
fundamentals, and increase their punching power greatly, but real bombers are
born. Punching power and snap. Ali had snap, but wasn't that hard a hitter.
Foreman didn't have as much snap as Ali, (though it was sufficient!), but no one
has ever hit harder. I'd hazard a guess that if Foreman had never been a boxer,
just ate cheeseburgers and drank beer, didn't work out, and didn't know how to
throw a punch, that he'd still be a fearsome hitter. Being skinny
doesn't mean you ~can~ hit hard. Big punching scarecrows like Foster, Hearns,
Danny Lopez, etc. were guys with the gift. Foster was like a big snake in the
ring, coiling this way and that, long legs eating up real estate like a vacuum,
then those blinding hands would come whipping out in a three punch combination,
almost as if it was one movement. I don't think Toney could cope with his
experience, his tactics, speed, or power. Foster was a real killer, with a rare
destructive instinct, even among boxers.|
|10/20/03 01:53:23 PM|Massimo|Rome||g||||10|RS-Don't you think that
Shavers could hit a little harder with his right than Foreman ? Lyle and Ali',
who fought both, said that Shavers could hit a little harder.|
|10/20/03 02:45:06 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|I just read a boxing post tournament,
where Jerry lose's a split decision to Bob Fitzsimmons,All I can Say is JQ never
lost to any light heavyweights. I can remember when A FIGHTER by the name of AL
"MEMPHIS" JONES knocked Quarry down extracted 4 of his teeth and broke his jaw,
then decked him again with a flurry accumulated with a push-punch,then was
knocked kicking the next round at 3:O8 OF THE FOURTH. (WENT IN THE RECORD BOOK
AS A KO 5 FOR Jerry, but it was the fourth round).Not a lot of fighter's would
have survived Alexander,after he decked Jerry in 74',(Joe Alexander said later
Quarry was the only opponent he ever decked "that got up and won").I Agree with
some other's on this post how Jerry's first year in the broadcast booth, he
could outshine HOWIE COSELL at EVERYTHING!ESPECIALLY THE LADIES,A lot of people
forget that besides being articulate, QUARRY WAS INTELLIGENT,CHARMING AND
ELOQUENT WITH HIS FAN'S. TAKE CARE!|
|10/20/03 07:16:51 PM|Paul|Sydney, Australia||PlMls4@aol.com||||10|Webmaster -
thanks for the Video Post. It was very informative to watch and it was a
pleasure to see how articulate in speech and humble in demeanour JQ was after
the Frazier defeat.|
|10/21/03 12:38:13 AM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|the clockman
agrees, jerry did have the class of a champion, it's too bad that he cut so
easy, but hey that the way it goes, he'll always be remembered, you can't forget
that kind of man. |
|10/21/03 02:20:31 AM|Massimo|Rome||8||||10|RS-You said that Foster
would have taken any light heavy anytime. I want to propose you 3 names 1)
Doug Jones. He beat Foster ! Don't you think that he could have been greater
than Foster at 175 lbs ?2)Ezzard Charles. He beat Archie Moore 3 times
convincingly and gave Marciano the toughest fight of his life ( first
fight)3) the legendary Sam Langford: he fought in almost all the weight
division, includind the light heavyweight, kicking asses of almost all the best
fighters in the wordl ( with the exception of Jack Johnson, that had an ass hard
to kick !).|
|10/21/03 12:44:48
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Massimo -
No one can say for sure in theoretical matchups, but I think Langford
and Charles would be outclassed and outpowered by Foster. As for Jones - he
fought as a heavy, with a style somewhat like Frazier's, but I don't know how he
would have done at a lighter weight. An example can be found in wrestling
(amateur, not stupid pro), in which it's common practice for a competitor to