January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

thinks/thought. He said that Jones fought a whole bunch of nobodies---his claim
to fame by beating Ruiz is a farce because Ruiz sucks---and also, he
editorialized about Jones getting clobbered by Tarver. He brought up the Larry
Holmes-Earnie Shavers title bout. I'm paraphrasing, but he quoted Holmes as
saying "My legs felt like Jello but something in my head told me that this guy
is about to take your title---about to take YOUR title---and I managed to
survive." Basically, Holmes got clocked by maybe the hardest hitter ever---
probably didn't know where he was for a moment---but gutted it out and made it
through the round. The writer's take was that it showed that Jones isn't so
great. |
|5/18/04 12:09:47 PM|charles anderson|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|how come
jerry never fought boone kirkman? that should have been a good fight and a money
maker as well.|
|5/18/04 01:42:32 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Kent "ohh a WISE GUY HUH?" Kirkman never
would have beaten Jerry at anytime in his career. I think Jerry'd have picked up
an easy 50 G's. Quarry still had 2 big rounds vs Norton in 75' and that would
have been enough for Boone. I seen Kirkman lose to Neumann and not win a round.
And one of the few heavyweights to make Ring Magazines World top ten without
ever beating one.|
|5/18/04 03:12:59 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Kinda funny how,Duane Bobick, Gerry
Cooney,Joe Bugner,Boone Kirkman, Henry Cooper,Jose Ibar Urtain,Jose Luis
Garcia,Chuck Wepner,Alfredo Evagelista, Among others, Never beat a World Ranked
Top Ten Fighter? Jerry Quarry only beat 8!!|
|5/18/04 04:19:06 PM|steve |N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Massimo,if you ever
travel to the south end of your country,visit Calabria.My wife's family are all
Calabreese.DiMarco's and Lupinacci's.|
|5/18/04 04:35:31 PM|Party Pooper|Truthville||(everywhere)||||8|Steve's a 'made
guy' with the mafiosa so we'd better be careful how we talk to him. He'll make
us an offer we can't refuse, Sea Biscuit's head in your bed, etc. Angelo - get
up from the lounge chair and stop watching too much tv. You're too fat already
and you'll look better with your hairpiece on. If Massimo could give away the
booze, you can too. Give it a try before it's too late. And get your hand off of
it, Kent. You'll have Massimo doing it if you keep it up. |
|5/18/04 04:38:11 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Jimmy Dorsey-Henry Cooper
beat Zora Folley on points in 1958. Wasn't Zora Folley a top ten contender at
the time ?|
|5/18/04 05:25:14 PM|steve |N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Kent,I agree with you
that fighters should have MRI'S,or whatever medical tests exist today to moniter
any change of brain damage taking place.Yes,at least once a year.|
|5/18/04 05:29:16 PM|Gerry Schultz|Cleveland USA||jgschultz11@aol.com||||10|Some
good comments regarding the visible pain of live boxing and brain damage. Kent,
gotta disagree regarding age limits. Growing old gracefully and moving on when
you've had enough are lost concepts to this sport, I've never seen it benefit
anyone. If your a 38-year old former-whatever, and you're still out there,
you've failed life. Just because you might still be able to do it doesn't mean
you should. Even the best should be able to maturely realize when their day is
ending, and a good sport doesn't keep it's stars pathetically hanging on... I
agree again, Jerry came up too quickly, but he had the hype few could match, at
least he wasn't Pete Rademacher. Except for NFL running backs, I can't think of
any sport players that are as ground up young as boxers. The fact that guys like
Joe Frazier and Jerry Quarry had little to offer after age 30 points again,
LOUDLY, for the need for headgear. Even with as much as these guys and others
took, they could have stayed longer and suffered less. In a sport where the
central goal is to smash the other guy in the head, the absence of headgear to
protect against long term effects is a gigantic mistake. This site, more than