January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

fan.||||10|Mac Arthur Foster reportedly flattened Sonny Liston in a sparring
session in the late 60's. This is probably one of the reasons for which Liston
bet on Mac Foster in the Quarry fight. I would have bet on Mac Foster too. He
looked much bigger and stronger. But I would have been a fool, and I would have
lost my money !|
|9/3/04 07:37:19 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|I would have
been a fool too, betting on Foster, probably Spencer and definitely Lyle and
Shavers against JQ, and I would have ended up with no money! Quarry came up big
in a lot of these fights he wasn't expected to win. That's one reason I'd give
him at least an outside chance against a 1974 Foreman. Foreman was devestating
as his walkover of Norton showed---but JQ might have had a few surprises for
him, including hanging around into the later rounds when GF might have punched
himself out like he did against Ali. Wow, imagine that---if JQ got the title
shot he deserved against Foreman, circa 1974 (and pulled of the upset), maybe
he'd have been DEFENDING a title against Ali in late '74 or early '75! Frazier
II. was a mistake for JQ! Couldn't he have taken on Bugner or something? |
|9/3/04 03:48:51 PM|charles anderson|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|i for one
thought jerry was ready for the second frazier fight. the alexander fight scared
me a little, with jery being floored, but joe had been inactive after being beat
to a pulp by foreman. what was their ranking at fight time and what were the
odds?|
|9/3/04 04:07:38 PM|Pete|Cleveland||pete@cobohall||||10|"Mac Arthur Foster
reportedly flattened Sonny Liston in a sparring session in the late 60's. This
is probably one of the reasons for which Liston bet on Mac Foster in the Quarry
fight."Leotis Martin also flattened "THE BIG UGLY BEAR" ending his
aspiration to fight either Jerry or Joe, both of whom he felt he could beat.
Frazier had a way of wearing down his opponent with his relentless method of
attack. Jerry's first fight with him was actually a good fight for Jerry and
it's unfortunate that the fight was stopped on a cut. I think that a
Quarry/Liston meeting would have been an interesting one, with Jerry on the way
up and Sonny on the way down. I don't, however, feel that Jerry would have done
very well against "THE MUMMY" as he probably would have stood toe to toe with
him and been taken out early in the fight. |
|9/3/04 04:56:15 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|HI CHARLES, RING MAGAZINE HAD JERRY
RANKED #3 AND "smokin Joe" #2. JERRY WAS ALSO A 6-5 FAVORITE,There were reports
JQ was actually ranked second at the time, But all the major listings had Champ
Foreman 1-Ali 2- Frazier 3-Quarry. WBA and RING magazine etc. I have all Jerry's
monthly top ten rankings from Ring Magazine. To where from Sep 67 to May 75.
Jerry was never ranked under #8 (#1 to #8 respectively).And they only time he
was out of that top ten was after his second Ali bout. where he actually called
a press conference to annouce his retirement( 6-months) and thus eliminated
himself from the rankings, he could have pulled an Oscar Bonavena and stayed
inactive,and his name would have still been in that top ten. take care?|
|9/3/04 04:58:25 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|HI CHARLES, RING MAGAZINE HAD JERRY
RANKED #3 AND "smokin Joe" #2. JERRY WAS ALSO A 6-5 FAVORITE,There were reports
JQ was actually ranked second at the time, But all the major listings had Champ
Foreman 1-Ali 2- Frazier 3-Quarry. WBA and RING magazine etc. I have all Jerry's
monthly top ten rankings from Ring Magazine. To where from Sep 67 to May 75.
Jerry was never ranked under #8 (#1 to #8 respectively).And they only time he
was out of that top ten was after his second Ali bout. where he actually called
a press conference to annouce his retirement( 6-months) and thus eliminated
himself from the rankings, he could have pulled an Oscar Bonavena and stayed
inactive,and his name would have still been in that top ten. take care?|
|9/4/04 10:30:10 AM|charles anderson|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|it is really
funny how syles make a fight. jerry handled foster, lyle, shavers with relative