January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

have been reading about shoe sizes for quite awhile now and i am sorry you took
offense. when yhis site started there were a lot of people who posted here but
now it is the same 5 or6 who dont sem to have much to say, that is why i have
gone from 10 to 7 on my scale. i love to read anything about jerry but not a lot
of other stuff i see here, sorry but that is the way i feel, sorry for my
spelling.|
|4/29/04 06:40:17 PM|steve |N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Angelo,I think Lyle
and Lewis would be a great fight!Lyle was a bit of a plodder,but had pretty fast
hands and a knockout punch in either hand.He had a rock for a jaw,and plenty of
heart.as he showed against Quarry and Forman.Lewis was a much better boxer,but
with a suspect chin.I think Lewis would have pulled of a close decision.I think
Foreman vs Lewis would have been even more interesting. |
|4/29/04 08:08:28 PM|Party Pooper|Here||14u@ifeltathigh||||5|Party Pooper -
you're coming off as working class unemployable. Coolio it.Oh yassuh,
boss, just because you said it, I'll be sure to attend to it post haste. How you
wish that were true, but of course you know it isn't, don't you? Please say yes.
Your opinion means so much to me. |
|4/29/04 08:18:21 PM|bk|ireland||mdc||||7|who besides me is now totally ignoring
Evan b the walking dichotomy who is not really from Belfast? Party Pooper you
truly underestimate the quality boxer and warrior that JQ really was! Koo Koo
you're still lusting after the big fellas. Size wouldn't have helped Lewis or
Klitchko against the bad asses from the 70's -- a rare breed they were. PS your
big footballers, Gastineau (spelling) and 2 tall didn't fare too well in the
fight game, did they!|
|4/29/04 08:19:36 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Jerry was a
step below the all time greats that fought in his era, Ali, Frazier, and
Foreman. But you have to admit, it was a tough era to fight in.While I
have great admiration for Jerry's skills, I don't think he could have beaten
Ali, except for catching Ali on the way down. In the first fight if the cut
didn't happen Ali likely would have won by decision. Jerry would have won some
rounds, especially later in the fight but Ali would have outpointed
him.I would have liked to see Jerry win a title. That is why I wish
Jerry had fought Ali the night Spinks did, assuming Jerry had anything left at
that point. I don't think Spinks' win was a fluke, he was just in the right
place at the right time. What skills did Spinks bring to the fight that Ali
hadn't seen before? Spinks just seemed to charge forward and wing punches.
This would have never worked against Ali earlier in Ali's career and Jerry would
have counterpunched and picked Spinks apart. Jerry's best chance of
winning at title was against Ellis but for whatever reason, he came up just
short. I do believe Jerry wins against Ellis most of the time. |
|4/29/04 11:06:33 PM|Gerry Schultz|Cleveland,
Ohio||jgschultz11@aol.com||||9|Brenda, please don't feel any responsibilty for
these classless postings, it's not you. Perhaps it is time for some security on
this site... While this is a site for Quarry/boxing fans, there's nothing wrong
with stating you're not one , Jerry and Mike did have their detractors. Just
show some manners when doing it. You would not want someone looping it up when
they enter your house... Sorry, but I feel both Jerry and Mike were great
fighters, both would-be champions. JQ was better than Ellis, no insult to Jimmy
Ellis. He was basically Top Five 1967-1975, only a real talent does that in the
greatest era in boxing history. Barely 6' and rarely 200 lbs., he did rile and
seriously challenge Ali early, and did embarrass Ali when he relaxed. Few can
say that. He nearly beat Frazier, nearly KO'D Norton on two-weeks notice, and
clearly raised Foreman's eyebrows at ring side. Who else did all this? No
power?? Ask Earnie Shavers, Ron Lyle , Mac Foster or Thad Spencer, all top-rated
heavies, if JQ could bang. Read Joe Frazier's bio and what he says about Jerry,
or Foreman's website entry on him. He would certainly have been cruiserweight
champ also, was rated #1 contender multiple times when it was just the WBA, and