January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

was a great champion no doubt but why cry over the Spinks decision when he
recieved two great gift decisions in my eyes.|
|1/25/04 02:43:33 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Sean, it has
been years since I have seen either Holmes verses Williams or Holmes verses
Witherspoon, but I my impression was they were both close fights. There is an
unwritten rule that says the challenger has to take the title from the champion
decisively. Did Williams really kick Holmes' ass, as you say? What do some of
you other people think about this?|
|1/25/04 03:34:50 PM|George Vreeland Hill|Los
Angeles||broadway4you@yahoo.com||||10|Jerry Quarry was a solid fighter, and one
of the best ever.If he were in the ring today, he would be champ!|
|1/25/04 11:51:48 PM|Gerry Schultz|snowy Ohio||jgschultz11@aol.com||||10|I've
always thought Larry Holmes had several very suspect performances, not a strong
champ in my opinion. But a very good guy and master boxer... Ali was given
credit, rightfully, for fighting everyone during era. If you compare the
opponents of Quarry with Frazier, Foreman and Norton, who would say took on the
best competition overall for a career?|
|1/26/04 12:31:58 AM|Sean|Jersey||emailppsinc@aol.com||||10|Kent I am fully
aware of the unwritten rule of taking the title but at what point does it go to
far. If you pull a fight out on the 10 point must and most observers have you
winning the fight by say 2 rounds wouldnt that be enough to get the decision.|
|1/26/04 09:02:54 AM|Pete|Gold Coast Australia||aussie_0@hotmail.com||||10|Can
anyone verify and/or give me details to a supposed fight years ago?Friend
says that Tony Mundine (father of Anthony) once fought Cassius Clay (before he
changed to Mohamid Ali)|
|1/26/04 10:13:01 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Sean, good
point on how far the unwritten rule of taking the title from the champion
decisively can get. I think the same rules should apply to all fights. Whoever
wins, wins, title at stake or not.The defeated champion and the
promoters can use his not being dominated as a means of hyping the
rematch.I think the ultimate of favortism shown a champion was in the
Ali/Wepner fight in which although Ali clearly dominated the fight, winning
almost every round, there were a couple of rounds when Ali did
nothing.The announcer, after about the sixth round, said, "I would have
to call that round even as Ali did nothing." How obsured is this? Because even
if all Wepner did was pursue Ali and land a few ineffective body shots, which he
did in every round, if Ali did nothing, Wepner wins this particular round,
right? I would think so but probably the judges didn't think so. |
|1/26/04 11:12:36 AM|Carl Weingarten|TJQF||TJQF||||10|Hello friends. I spoke to
Brandi Quarry this weekend, and I wanted to let everyone know that the web host
for TJQF has been making changes that will affect this page. Somewhere in the
next week they are moving the web site to a new server. It’s likely that the
Letters page will go off line temporarily. It is also possible that the
messages you have written over the last year will not be transferred to the new
server and will be lost. I apologize for this. I have been in touch with the
host, but unfortunately, they have not been helpful. Hopefully the break will
not be too long, and the Letters page will be back in a new format. In the mean
time, I am rebuilding the site in its new location, and looking for a new web
host as well. Thanks, --Carl|
|1/26/04 11:55:15 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|My messages will be lost !!!!! It' s
like losing aMozart ' s symphony !!!!!!!!!!|
|1/26/04 06:22:38
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|I’m certain Earnie
Shavers can hit very hard. Ali said so, and Tex Cobb (who TKOd him) said, “If
Earnie hit any harder, I’d have to shoot him!” However, I was checking his
record, and for the first forty or so matches, I’d never heard of any of his
opponents. Most were early KOs. I know the early fights of any future champion