January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

countJerry was far head in his fight with Chuvalo, but Jerry was getting
tired, and discouraged. With 3 rounds left in the fight he was no lock, even
though Chuvalo eyes were closing, and the fight might have been stopped in the
next round. I will always remember what Vince Lombardi said, "fatigue makes
cowards out of all of us."One more note, I waited outside the MSG that night
for Quarry to leave the MSG. Quarry and his entourage left together, they were
not a happy group, and the father Jack Quarry was drunk. It was like they were
coming from a funeral|
|5/7/04 03:39:33 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CXALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Forest Ward: I can just imagine,how
happy that group was! WOW, I'd wished i'd been to half those Garden bouts,you've
witnessed Forest!it was actually better For JERRY In the long run,For had he
stopped Chuvalo in the 8th,Doubt he'd fought Foster and got that No.1 contender,
and the "BIG BUCKS" vs Ali. I'LL bet that First round QUARRY-CHUVALO had a few
fans MSG On their feet.Just before the bell.|
|5/7/04 03:57:47 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|I'll have to
watch Quarry-Chuvalo again. I have it on tape somewhere---and my recollection
is that Quarry looked to be on the verge of winning. I thought it was a freak
knockout---in fact, for a guy who was tired, Quarry suddenly came to life and
showed a hell of a lot of energy when he was counted out!|
|5/7/04 04:40:37 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|All right!
Who brought up Quarry verses Chuvalo again? According to our critic, we are not
allowed to talk about the same subject twice. Well anyway, since it was
brought up, I think Jerry forgot he had jumped right up after the knockdown
before he kneeled back down to take the eight count and that Jerry somehow
thought the count was only at eight instead of ten. I don't believe Jerry was
hurt but was trying to do the smart thing by taking the eight count and it was a
momentary laspe of concentration on his part and not because Chuvalo had hurt
him that cost him the fight. This fight along with the Ellis fight, both
fights I thought Jerry should have won, plus the second Ali fight are the most
frustrating for me as a Jerry Quarry fan. Ali # 2 because for a large part of
that fight, Jerry just plodded after Ali throwing one punch and every once in a
while, two punches at a time. I wish Jerry had torn into Ali and at least if he
lost, he would have known he gave Ali a tough fight. In Ali # 2, Ali was having
an easy time of it for most of the fight and this should never happen whenever
Jerry was in a fight. I am not frustrated by Jerry's first fight with Ali
because Jerry did fight hard in that fight but he got cut.|
|5/7/04 05:06:43 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Kent:
You're right about the second Ali fight, though Jerry impressed even Ali with
the little rally he had. I heard Ali in an interview, recall that fight---he
was surprised that Jerry hung in there and had the energy to fight back.The
Ellis fight frustrated me to no end because 1) I thought Jerry was better and 2)
I thought he could have scored a knockout with a good follow up to the punch he
landed late in the fight---I think the 13th. I think he showed too much respect
for Ellis' power. |
|5/8/04 01:53:20 AM|Ed|Cicero n y||mooseygoop@aol.com||||10|Kent:You
ever go to the induction ceremonies at Boxing Hall Of Fame in Canastota N Y ?
Its coming up in June (every year) and for a week or so we ( I live like 30
miles from it) have all kinds of famous fighters in town. Canastota is a very
small town put on the boxing map back in the 50's by Carmen Basilo, who grew up
on an onion farm there and by his nephew Billy Backus in the
70's.http://www.ibhof.com/04pressconf/04announce.htm|
|5/8/04 05:36:19 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Ed, no I have
never been to the hall of fame awards in New York. I usually only attend events
on the west coast, Vegas, and sometimes Phoenix, Arizona.I would like to
travel to a bigger area but so far I haven't found anyone to at least help me
with expenses. It is not totally out of the question I could attend