January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

to the trash... I agree that Patterson wouldn't be heavyweight champion today,
while a prime Liston yes. In his prime Sonny Liston was a top 5 heavyweight
ever. The best left jab ever, powerful left hook, powerful right hook, iron
chinned, very long reach, fearless... What a champion !|
|12/9/03 03:23:37 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|I wished Jerry'd retired at 33-3-4 and
gone into engineering at UCLA or got into acting fulltime in 1969,he'd had plans
to retire then,or maybe after his big payday with ALI in 70' where he netted
only 85 grand. It shocks me that macho comacho, can take home more moolah(6
million$) in one fight then JERRY could his whole career.As a fan I was selfish
to where I really wanted Jerry's 73'comeback to be big (and it was).But
ultimately may have did more harm than good,for Jerry obviously
physically,Everywhere the man went when he commentated with Brookshier for
CBS,people hounded him for a comeback, he looked like a stocky undestrucktable
tank in a tux.the men whom were responsible for Jerry's fateful comeback in
1992, should be playing on Jose Conseco's softball team in prison!!!!|
|12/9/03 03:54:24 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Jerry should
have retired after Frazier 2. The Norton fight should have been stopped after
the fourth round or during the fourth round, certainly Jerry should have not
been allowed off of his stool to fight in round number five after the frightful
beating he took in round four. Jerry was still winging punches in round five,
even if they didn't have much force on them by that point but Jerry was still
fighting his heart out and he went out of the fight a true warrior in every
sense of the word. Jerry was even trying to push the referee away to get back
at Norton, what a heart!The fight should not have been stopped after the
third round though when Jerry and Norton went toe to toe for the whole round,
with Jerry holding his own throughout. What a round, one of the best I have
ever seen.It was after this fight that Norton said all of his bad
feelings towards Jerry went away. It would seem Norton couldn't help but
respect someone with as much guts as Jerry had. |
|12/9/03 04:53:15 PM|Paul|Sydney, Australia||PlMls4@aol.com||||10|Koo Koo -
thanks for your opinion. RS - head injuries can be a bit bizzare. I played a lot
of rugby league football in my youth and I was knocked unconscious a number of
times without any apparent ill effects. The weirdest time, though, was when I
wasn't knocked out. I remember absolutely nothing about the second half of a
game, even though I played the whole second half as usual without any sign of
injury. The next I recall is talking to someone in the dressing shed afterwards.
There was no headaches, nothing. And I recalled the first half of the game
clearly. There's something I've noticed about people suffering dementia,
Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and those types of conditions. An in-law has
Alzheimer's and so does the father of a close friend. Both have full heads of
hair with a low hair line on the forehead.....just like Ali and President
Reagan. Noticing this makes me wonder whether I've had too many hits to the
head. Cheers. |
|12/9/03 05:20:54 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|MASSIMO: Liston
was the prototype of today's large heavyweights, while Patterrson represented
the era smaller heavies of the 1950's such as Marciano, Charles, etc. When the
two eras collided, Floyd wound up on the canvas. To some degree, a similar thing
happened to Tyson when he fought Lewis.|
|12/9/03 05:25:26
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|RS - head injuries
can be a bit bizzare.>Lots of injuries can be strange. A guy plays in
the NFL, never has a kneee injury, then tears one up stepping off the bottom
rung of a ladder wrong.I was knocked unconscious a number of times
without any apparent ill effects.>You can have a concussion and not be
knocked out, but when you are, you always have one (and of course, there are
different degrees of severity). It's a mystery why some people are relatively