January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|hi GERRY SCULTZ,yes that Foreman-Quarry
73'or 1974 bout would have been really something,Boxing of course is a battle of
styles JQ would have probably been at least a 12-5 underdog.A lot of people
thought Jerry might have been hurt permanately,for Foreman was so awesome.George
also had a great chin.Did anyone see the punches Lyle hit Big George with? I
still would rather had Jerry in there with Foreman for all the marbles,than say
"smokin Joe".They interest that this particular bout would have been enormous
say for Madison Square Garden. |
|2/17/04 01:46:20 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Guilty again
about getting off of boxing topics but as far as the White Shadow goes, I liked
Goldstein. He always stuck out like a "sore thumb." Whoever heard of a jewish
kid playing on an inner-city L.A. basketball team anyway. Also, I am sure every
team in the area had a kid named Salami too, right? These kids were the token
whites every television team would have to have. It kind of throws off the
concept of the white coach having to prove himself at the ghetto school anyway,
doesn't it?The Doobies were cool and still are but who would have
thought Rog, Duane, and Rerun would be into them?|
|2/17/04 02:11:03 PM|brenda|ca||meme@aol.com||||10|Ha Patty is it you? Have not
heard from you in years. Is that your e-mail? We are going to plan a
blood,inlaws,outlaws and friends, family reunion. please get in touch. I feel
bad for JF if he does have brain damage, its possible he knows not what he does.
The lives of fighters, after their career is over, seems to be the forgotten
aspect of a fighters life. The disabilities a man faces and they know it for
awhile. It is just so overwhelming that they turn to anything famillar for
confort. This could be booze,dugs,family and now the fondation. thanks bq|
|2/17/04 11:48:57 PM|Sean|Jersey||emailppsinc@aol.com||||10|I'd like to take
time to comment on Quarry - Foreman for a second. I think that styles make
fights like most people believe and I think that Quarry had the perfect style to
beat Foreman if he stays on his game. I seen Jerry fight about 20 time and
think the best Jerry Quarry I ever seen was that one against Ron Lyle in Madison
Square Garden. Jerry took Lyle apart, clearly out boxed and out punched when he
needed to but most of all out thought Lyle. I think that George and Lyle had
very similar styles George with a better jab and a better puncher but very
similar with his straight forward, slow footed, unwillingness to adjust style.
I think that if you take Lyle out that night and put in Big George in the night
may have ended in similar fashion, maybe George even gets stopped late. Just one
more quick point; most people when they talk about George and his career forget
his fight with Gregorio Peralta in the Garden. Peralta gave George fits with his
boxing and not folding under Georges aura and punches. Thats the one stand out
fight and other reason I think Jerry would beat George and not just give him
fits.|
|2/18/04 12:22:51 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Sean, could
Jerry have beaten Foreman? On any given night Jerry would have a good chance of
winning because as you point out, styles make fights. Most of the time though
George would win as he was too big and strong for Jerry. It would not be an
easy fight and Foreman would have trouble with Jerry, unlike his fights with
Frazier and Norton, who both beat Jerry, although Norton did catch Jerry on the
way down.The comparison to Peralta is a good one and one can argue that
Jerry had a similar style to Peralta and that Jerry hit harder than Peralta. But
also remember the Foreman Peralta gave tough fights to was still not fully
mature physically and George was stronger when he became champion.I do
believe that Jerry could have beaten Foreman on the night Foreman lost his title
to Ali and also on the night Foreman lost to Jimmy Young. For whatever reason
(the connection likely was that George couldn't handle the heat), Foreman just
didn't have it on both of those nights. Take nothing away from Ali's or Young's
wins but we were not seeing Foreman at his best. The talk that the fix
was in in Zaire, when Ali beat Foreman, doesn't hold water when you consider the