January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

good, well placed body shot, which it was and I am sure Jerry would have noted
this also.There was no bad intentions towards Jerry Quarry because if
you knew me, you would know nothing could be further from the truth. I
am a friend of the Quarrys and they know I have always been a strong supporter
of Jerry and one of his biggest fans and the regulars here, who are his biggest
fans, know the same. I carry their opinions much higher than some newcomer who
won't sign his real name and who knows nothing about me.I am also a part
time boxing journalist and if you want to know my take on the Quarrys, I suggest
you go to www.eastsideboxing.com and look up the following articles, "Mike
Quarry, a Warrior in his Own Right," "Quarry defeats Streaking Lyle," about the
1973 Jerry Quarry vs. Ron Lyle fight, and "An Interview with James Quarry,
President of the Jerry Quarry Foundation."If you put those titles in
a Google search, they should come up on the list of items about the Quarrys.
The Lyle article comes up on some other websites also.James (Mr.
Jimmy) was a personal friend of mine as is Bob Quarry and I have also had
several long talks with Mike Quarry as well. In fact, I sat next to Bob and
sister Brenda at the Quarry table during Mike's induction into the California
Boxing Hall of Fame banquent and ceremony. In fact the article, "A Warrior in
his Own Right" is about Mike getting named to the California Hall of Fame. I am
also very proud that Bob gave a copy of my article to his mother, Arwanda
Quarry, and she read it and enjoyed it.I don't usually like to toot my
own horn about getting to know some of the Quarry family but this "so called
Fan" ticked me off, one of Jerry's biggest fans, and I saw no other way to get
my point accross.|
|9/20/04 01:05:40 AM|a|b||c||||10|toot, toot, toot, toot, toot, and TOOOOOOOOOOT
!!|
|9/20/04 08:44:46 AM|D|E||F||||10|He can toot his own horn any time as what he
says is probably true.|
|9/20/04 09:15:48 AM|Angelo|dc||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Kent: I agree with
you---and whether or not JQ was in his prime is besides the point. Honestly,
we'll never know if a 1969 Quarry would have gone down from the Frazier body
shot, but I seriously doubt he'd "laugh" it off. And while knockdowns from body
blows aren't common, I've seen them enough to know that it happens. Also,
sometimes a fierce body punch is followed by a head shot and results in a
knockdown---and the body shot is responsible for half the damage.|
|9/20/04 10:58:53 AM|Nick "Popeye" Payne|Roma||take a look around, look at what
we found.com||||10|I have never seen Frazier-Quarry 2, so for me it's hard to
judge how good was that body punch Jerry took. I trust Kent and Demonio ( Angelo
)|
|9/20/04 11:26:13 AM|Fran|philly||plc7755@aol.com||||10|The Body shot in Quarry
2 that Jerry took was a good one. The difference in Quarry 1 was Jerry fought
Frazier different and had a tighter defense by fighting Frazier on the inside.
He probably didn't get caught clean with a body shot in 1 like in Frazier 2. In
Frazier 2 Jerry was moving on his feet and countering Frazier and showed some
good skills but for some reason I don't think he had a full gas tank for that
fight. |
|9/20/04 02:38:33 PM|charles anderson|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|the body
shot joe caught jerry with was for real. jerry facial expression was painful to
watch. i really thought jerry would win this fight after a great 1973 and joe
getting getting destroyed by foreman. as i have said before joe hit jerry with a
lot of rights in this fight and jerry was not looking for anything but deadly
left hooks.|
|9/20/04 02:53:56 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Charles:
Agreed---and I also think it's a shame that JQ took the second Frazier fight.
After 1973, he had earned the right to fight for the title without taking on any
more top contenders. If Foreman couldn't, or wouldn't, give Quarry an immediate
title fight, Quarry should have been allowed to take a tune-up against a trial