January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

sport, and if true, it figures. Larry and George are physical phenoms, actually
freaks of nature in a good way. I only hope that they can be honest with
themselves. It is true that an older body, however capable still, is hurt more
easily, and heals more slowly. Also, amazing that they might yet be, boxing is a
"lose an inch, lose a mile" sport. They're two of the fortunate ones to get out
whole. What a tragedy it would be if they lost this to a fight neither needs.
Time is a thief, but in strong matters of the heart, the mind seldom listens. At
these times, it's like the dual masks of drama, one smiling, the other
miserable.|
|2/11/04 06:48:36 PM|steve |N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Hey Jimmy D.As a
stooge,you might have information on these two areas that I've never been able
to get an answer on.Do you know what issue of Boxing Illustrated or The Ring
magazine showed a smiling Jerry and his new bride, Charlie,She was a beatiful
blonde who looked like a movie starlet.Did they have any kids? What year did
they divorce?|
|2/11/04 09:44:05 PM|Kent|L:a Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|R.S., my
trainer's talking about riding the rodeo circuit at age 66 may be just wishful
daydreaming on the part of an older man. But who knows, he could be serious as
he often says he doesn't feel old.I, at times, say I would like to have
a fight. My background is karate, which I trained in for four years in my teens
and early twenties but I also used to spar with boxers for cross training
purposes. I had one boxing match, in a tough man contest about seventeen years
ago and while I thought I won my match and most people in the audience thought I
won also, the judges voted for my opponent. I have begun to train in karate
again for weight lose purposes and the thought crosses my mind, that once I get
in acceptable shape, I visit some boxing gyms or find some full contact sparring
partners. But maybe this isn't a good idea and I should leave well enough alone
myself. So I do understand what these fighters are thinking, only on a
different level from them. At this time, all I do is some karate
routines called kata and I hit the bags too. I am not even doing any controlled
or light point sparring yet. But maybe this as far as I should take it with
adding the light sparring later and leaving the full contact stuff alone.|
|2/11/04 11:05:42 PM|Sean|Jersey||Emailppsinc@aol.com||||10|Hey I was wondering
if anyone on this site had ever seen the Mike Quarry vs Jimmy Dupree
fight.Also was thinking about som lightheavy weight contenders from that
time frame that would have been intresting to see Mike fight and that was Johnny
Persol from NY. and Eddie (Bossman) Jones from Oakland. I was looking to see
what you guys thought and how you think Mike would have fared in those fights.|
|2/12/04 01:06:22 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Sean, Mike,
on any given night, would be a good bet to beat almost all light heavys,
including Bossman Jones and Persol.He was on the short end of some close
fights in which he could have gotten another shot at the title if he had been
given the verdict even once. These include: The second fight with Mike
Rossman, vs. Pierre Fourie, vs. Chris Finnegan, and vs. Yaqui Lopez.As
good as Jerry's pure boxing skills were, Mike's skills may have even been
better. What Mike lacked in pure punching power, he made up for with heart and
he always came to his fights in shape and prepared. I never saw the
fight with Dupree but know Mike won by techical decision.|
|2/12/04 01:09:25 AM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|LET ME TELL YOU
FOLKS SOMETHING, I JUST READ AN ARTICLE ABOUT FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT GREG PAGE , AS
MOST OF US KNOW HE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN 2001 , SUFFERED A STROKE AND BRAIN
SWELLING AFTER BEING STOPPED AT AGE 42, HE NOW REQUIRES ROUND THE CLOCK
SUPERVISION, THIS IS DONE BY HIS WIFE , WHO I TAKE MY HAT OFF TO, MY POINT IS
THAT A PERSON 42 IS STILL YOUNG FOR LIFE, BUT IS ANCIENT FOR BOXING, ANYBODY
THAT AGE IS IN GREAT DANGER TRYING TO COMPETE IN A YOUNG MANS GAME, DON'T THINK
BECAUSE YOUR TRAINED IN SOME MARTIAL ART THAT WILL SAVE YOU, THERES GUYS ON THE
STREET THAT CAN KILL YOU JUST BECAUSE THIER FIERCE, YOUNG AND MAYBE DRUGGED UP,