January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

the next round. |
|4/30/04 12:27:02 PM|Fran|Philly||plc7755@aol.com||||10|Thanks Mass. In the
second Spinks fight if I remember right Ali just held on to Spinks the whole
fight and really didn't do anything but hold and tie up Leon....that was back in
the day when they made up the bull that you had to KO the champion to take the
title so Ali holds on and gets the decision cause Leon couldn't hurt him. The
fight where Ali fought Lyle seemed very hard to believe that Lyle could take
Foremans Bombs but couldn't take Ali's light punches. |
|4/30/04 12:35:55 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|I remember before
the Ali-Lyle fight, Lyle said that everyone who fights Ali for some reason goes
out there and tries to kill him. Lyle said his plan was to win even if the fight
went to a decision. I had Lyle ahead and I think the fight was stopped too
early. My friend was a ringside and he agreed. Cosell’s calling of the fight was
horrible. He had it in his mind that Lyle had no chance and he would not concede
that Lyle was doing well even when he clearly was. He called Lyle "muscle bound"
and said something to the affect that "Lyle was one of the few fighters who
could claim a loss to Quarry"|
|4/30/04 01:54:47 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|It's a
shame about Cosell---I enjoyed his call on fights and I think he made Monday
Night Football interesting too. I don't remember the derogatory comment about
Quarry during the Lyle/Ali fight but as I recall, he said something very similar
about Earnie Shavers when Shavers fought Norton---one of the few fighters to
claim a loss against Quarry. The thing that makes me scratch my head is that
Cosell really seemed to like Quarry early in Jerry's career. I have tapes of
Cosell praising Quarry both as a fighter and as an intelligent guy outside the
ring. I wonder why he turned like that? Cosell was frustrated by boxers
getting hurt or being in mismatches. Maybe he had a problem with Jerry hanging
around too long??? |
|4/30/04 03:18:34 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Angelo: If you weren't ALI,JOE NAMATH OR
O.J., you just did not rate with Cosell,just ask Dandy DON,Howard was hard on
boxer's and Washington Redskins(Alvin Garrett). he was a weird duck anyhow,and a
highly paid one.Handsome Howard skated thru life. easier than a fox in a hen-
house|
|4/30/04 03:29:32 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Maybe HOWIE was jealous JERRY QUARRY BEAT
him out for Boxing commentating awards in his first year(1976)Call it how you
see it,I can respect that,What he did not see was JQ beating more top ten Ranked
contenders (7-0) than any other non-champion in the 1960's and 70's combined.His
apprasils of Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers,As well as others show you how ignorant to
the sport HUMBLE HOWIE really was.Glad he got the big bucks!NOT!|
|4/30/04 04:51:59 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Steve, I
called that office I spoke about yesterday to ask if Toney's career was done. I
left a message for someone to call me back and no one has yet. I will try again
Monday or Tuesday.I also E mailed a couple of reporter friends of mine
to see if they know anything about Mesi but haven't heard from them either. Of
course, if they did know something, they might not share it with me as it is a
big story. It was worth a try though.My feeling on the subject of Toney
being through is he isn't through as he recently was seen shooting his mouth off
about the Klitschkos after Vitali's win over Sanders. I think Toney only does
that to promote himself into getting big money fights and he wouldn't do it if
he wasn't going to fight again.|
|4/30/04 10:02:47 PM|Gerry Schultz|Cleveland,
Ohio||jgschultz11@aol.com||||9|Just rewatched Byrd-Golota, Golota not as
aggressive as he could have been, but I thought he won a narrow decision. Chris
Byrd does not impress, I have to think his bell is about to be wrung soon.
Howard Cosell's bio was called "I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME", which I suppose is