January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

after beating Mercer, who was favored. I thought Holmes "senior" career was
almost as impressive as Foreman's. |
|8/13/04 11:09:22 PM|Gerry|Cleveland||same||||10|As the Athens Games open today,
an old question reoccurred to me. Was Jerry approached, after winning the
National Golden Gloves in '65, about remaining an amateur for the '67 Pan
American Games or the '68 Mexico City Olympics? Jerry would only have been 23
for Mexico City, and better than 18-year old George Foreman then. I doubt it did
or that Jerry would have, just wondering... Ernie, you're a jackass. Who made
Ernie the guardian of opinion on this site? People have the right to their
opinions as long as they are presented respectfully. Read the archives, Ernie.
People have taken these fights and matchups apart for years now, and it clearly
makes for good conversation. What kind of guy wants to censor Quarry comments on
THE Quarry site? Get a clue, Ernie ... Timana makes some very good points
regarding Ali-Foreman and Tyson-Holyfield. Buster Douglas, who boarded the plane
practically alone from Columbus, Ohio for Japan, was clearly motivated by the
memory of his mother. Tyson, though, had not yet had a chance to recover from
the death of his mother and his manager Cus D'Amato. The two men were in
different stages of mourning, one recovering, the other still very effected, big
difference. For that and other reasons, that great fight is not a real
representaion of either man or their matchup... Thanks for the clip, Massimo.
Are you rooting for Italy in the Olympic boxing, track and basketball
competitions? |
|8/13/04 11:18:07 PM|Gerry|Cleveland||same||||10|I never held Larry Holmes's "
jockstrap" comment against him. He was caught up in more than a little racism in
the late 70's, and did not react well to it. To me, he came across as very
likable, down to earth, a good blue collar guy. He had Rocky Balboa and Rocky
Marciano, as well as Joe Frazier and Muhammed Ali, hanging over him the whole
time. I give him some slack for that and other comments. |
|8/14/04 03:40:11 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Gerry-Yes, I think I'm gonna
root for Italy in the Olimpics. It's my favourite country. In the European
Tournment, it's true, we played like s**t but they didn't want us to win. 2-2
?!? Sheeesh ( it's slang ) ! Where is loyalty ? Where the hell is loyalty ? I
don't know, maybe they don't like spaghetti, caffe' and pizza !Damiani won a
silver medal in Los Angeles in 1984. He was beaten in final by Tyrell Biggs. But
Francesco soundly beat Biggs in five rounds a few years later. There was a time
in which he was going to fight Holyfield. Probably he would have lost, but I
think he would have given Evander a competitive fight. Giorgio Brambini won a
bronze medal in 1968. During the tournment he was beaten by George "Who"
Foreman. After getting hit a couple of times by Foreman he refused to fight any
longer ! Franco De Piccoli won a gold medal in 1960 ( superheavyweights). He
could punch like hell, but his chin wasn't mccallian, and got knocked out by
Wayne Bethea and Joe Bygraves as a professional. Nino Benvenuti won a gold medal
in the middleweight division(1960) only to become one of the best
middlewights of his generation. Memories.Wilt has been rated THE BEST
CENTER IN NBA history by BBC. Shaq N.3 , Jabbar N.4,Olajuwon N.5. |
|8/14/04 03:43:51 AM|Ernie Laxalt|Reno, NV||elax66@aol.com||||10|Gerry, not nice
to call people jackasses. I criticize endless, repetitive speculation because
it's not intelligent, not informative, leads nowhere, and wastes time. Most of
it here is focused on Quarry. What if we shifted it to Ali? We could make
excuses and hypothesize about ever fight he had, including his losses. If he'd
paced himself differently against Frazier, he would have won when he lost. If
he'd jabbed more, kept Joe away. If he'd moved to the left a little more, or
thrown more left feints and fouled Joe more to the top of his head and throat.
Or if he'd fought Norton earlier. Or if he'd insisted on fighting Frazier in
Yankee Stadium in Harlem, or in Detroit. If he'd fought the Spinks fight two
months earlier and hooked more in the first and second rounds. Getting tired
yet, Gerry? This is exactly what some of you do. How about Foreman? What if he'd