January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

quality opposition.Opinions please|
|8/17/02 11:36:50 AM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|DEAR EVREN: I am forced to go with
ANGELO, on this one, he just made points that i have said all along, do you
honestly think, the"greatest" ALI would have ducked "merciless" RAY
MERCER,RIDDICK BOWE,GEORGE FOREMAN,TOMMY MORRISON,TIM WITHERSPOON,DAVID TUA,THE
KLITISHKO'S,AND THERE ARE MORE, ALI WOULD HAVE FOUGHT AND BEATEN THESE GUYS
TWICE,IRONICALLY THERE IS ONE THING ALL THESE FIGHTER'S HAVE IN COMMON (THEY ARE
BIG PUNCHER'S).SEEMS LIKE THERE IS SOMETHING TO THIS AND TYSON BEING ALLEGEDLY
BROKE, HE WOULD HAVE MADE MORE MONEY, FIGHTING THESE GUYS, THEN THE CREAM PUFFS
YOU MENTIONED,FRANK BRUNO,TREVOR BERBICK,RUDDOCK,BONE CRUSHER,MICHAEL
SPINKS,WERE SCARED TO DEATH, THEY WERE BEATEN BEFORE THE BELL,RUDDOCK COULD HAVE
SMOKED HIM,HAD HE NOT BEEN SO INTIMADATED, OKAY LETS SAY HE WOULD HAVE RUN
ROUGHSHOT, ON THEM ALL,HOW COME WE DID NOT SEE IT,PEOPLE STILL TALK ABOUT
FOREMAN/QUARRY, I ONLY WISHED JERRY WOULD HAVE GOT THE SHOT THAT HE DEFINIETLY
DESERVED, IT WOULD HAVE ANSWERED ALL THE 30 YEARS OF QUESTIONS,BOY TIME FLY,S
WHEN YOUR HAVING FUN|
|8/17/02 01:11:20 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|What annoys me is that Tyson's
opponents suddenly become 'poor' after Tyson wiped them out. You heard 'nuff
about Spinks, Biggs and Ruddock before Mike dealt with them. Then they were
suddenly chinny or scared. tyson was a great great fighter. Is Marciano also
not a great for all the fighters he avoided - I think no ! Is Dempsey not a
great for not facing the brilliant black fighters of his time. Is Holmes not a
great for defending against moderate opposition and a few good'ns past their
best. I am not saying he is ali - no one is - but a great - definitely. Could
have and should have been one of the best ever ! He dealt with so many good
fighters easily and has only had three losses by opponents who were better on
the night. He is past his best now and will never reclaim his past glories. He
will forever be remembered both good and bad.|
|8/17/02 03:00:32 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Tyson at his
very best would have been tough to beat in any era. The problem with him is his
screwball personality and it is because of this that he squandered his talent.
His prime was not very long, about 3 years from 1986 to 1989 and he did beat
some good fighters during this time but after this he wasn't the same anymore.
By the time Douglas got a hold of him the problems in his life had taken their
toll. I hate to pass judgement on any person and there may be some good in the
man somewhere inside of him but, I have always hated the term that is often said
after a fight that the best man won the fight. IN TYSON'S CASE, THE BEST MAN
MOST OF THE TIME WOULD NEVER WIN THE FIGHT AS MOST OF HIS OPPONENTS ARE PROBABLY
BETTER MEN THAN HIM BUT NOT BETTER FIGHTERS. |
|8/17/02 06:04:56 PM|Paul|Montreal||drolpaul@aol.com||||10|Here's an item I just
came across on another site that I thought I'd share. Rick Farris, who would
become a main-event lightheavyweight from L.A, said the following about a gym
tussle he witnessed between Jerry and Ken Norton: " I saw Jerry literally
knockout Norton 3 years earlier at the Main St. Gym, shortly before Kenny upset
Ali. Norton's trainer, Bill Slayton, kept Norton laying on the canvas for a
couple of minutes after a brutal left hook to the body, right cross to the head
paralyzed Norton."By the way, Bill Slayton was one of the first trainers
Jery had as an amateur. |
|8/18/02 02:54:53 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Paul, it
doesn't surprise me that Jerry handled Norton well in the gym. Gil Clancy said
that Jerry was the best gym fighter he ever saw. Jim Quarry said once that
Jerry sparred with Joe Bugner a couple of times in the early 70s and he also was
dominant over Bugner and Clancy said that Jerry used to have is way with Jimmy
Young in the gym as well. In his era, the only people who really should have
beaten him when Jerry was at his best were Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier. He
would have had a good chance of beating Norton and even Foreman. Of Jerry's