January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|11/15/03 02:27:14 AM|Sonia Hathaway (Quarry)|Joshua Tree,
CA||Sonia90101@aol.com||||10|Hey Richard Perry, how's it going? Love the van.
Keep in touch!|
|11/15/03 08:17:39 AM|Kent Appel|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Hello
Richard, I was at your second fight against Eric Quarry, the PAL event at Soboba
in 2002. Both you and Eric showed a lot of heart in fighting it out for a good
cause. These fights may have been exhibitions but they were very real and
everyone involved deserves credit for a job well done. I intended to make it up
for this years event but I had other plans this time.|
|11/15/03 11:43:53 AM|KOOKOO|NY||KOOKOOCLOCK000@YAHOO.COM||||10|AHHHH !!!
IMAGINE THAT , WEREVER A QUARRY IS KENT IS THERE, I DON'T KNOW SONYA, THIS GUY
MIGHT NOT BE WRAPPED TOO TIGHT,JUST AS LONG AS EVERBODY REMEMBERS I'M JERRY'S
NO. 1 FAN, NOT WHATS HIS FACE:)))))))) |
|11/15/03 01:01:06
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|~Mirages~F
unny thing about Ali. He never quite put together the two parts of his greatness
at the same time; we saw only fleeting pieces of both careers in either one. In
part one, he was as fast as a welterweight, and pummeled opponents who for the
most part were about as mobile as large appliances. This of course lent some
illusion of speed on top of what was already there, and he rarely got hit. Yet,
we rarely saw him really fight, or IMO, reach deep into his bag of tricks; much
Clay brilliance was lacks in opponents. I'm aware of the pedigree of the people
he boxed, but he was a lot better, much better comparatively than he was to the
men he met after his return. In career two, he was more of an unorthodox brawler
(and still fast, just not ~as~ fast). He encountered much better people, a lot
of movers, and he got hit more, but we found out that that didn't matter much.
He probably knew this, but now had to call upon it out of no other choice
necessity, and still no one could follow up. Never were able to, even Frazier,
who came the closest. He was really more of a spider than a butterfly or
a bee. He still hit with his arms a lot, floated sporadically, yet viewers and
judges seemed to be hypnotized into thinking that they were still seeing the
butterfly, that when he deigned the dance, he was doing so by choice. He was
hard to corner, and tough to hit cleanly, could take it when he was hit, but
remained a sharp shooter till almost the end. Fighters paid the price. He isn't
given credit for inside fighting, and wasn't the killer close that Frazier or
Tyson were, but he did a lot of damage to the flies who ventured into his web,
answering his siren's song. If you cut, you were in trouble. He might have
"twisted his punches," but he also had the quickest head and elbows in the west,
often administered as a fighter was coping with a thumbed eye.The guy's
actually hard to compare to anyone else, and not for reasons of the short lived
butterfly.|
|11/15/03 02:45:50 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|I would suggest for anyone on this
sight,who are into boxing and love true stories,to click on CURTIS "HATCHETMAN"
SHEPPARD. Which would be Weill CBZ 2000.This will tell everyone what really
happened and is a great story. take care!|
|11/15/03 03:17:15 PM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|How good was Alex Miteff ? I know
that he won the Panamerican Games as an amateur. He is still a legend in
Argentina. Clay beat him in 1961, Jerry Quarry managed to do the same in 1967.|
|11/15/03 05:34:57 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||Kentallenent@aol.com||||10|R.S. you are
so right about people being influenced by Ali's legend. Judges, announcers, as
well as fans were taken in by this. An example is the Wepner fight in which in
about the fifth or sixth round, the announcer says, "Ali did not do anything
this round so I would have to call it as being even." How can this be an even
round as Wepner, in every round was pressing the action and at least landing a
few body shots. So if Wepner landed a few nominal shots and Ali did nothing,
Wepner should have won the round, I would think. The first round was the same