January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

horse, then get a title shot later. As it turns out, the title shot would have
been at Ali, not Foreman.|
|9/20/04 04:37:02 PM|g|h||i||||10|Kent 'the Tooter' Appel ! |
|9/20/04 05:43:38 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Angelo, The
thing is this person who won't identify himself who suggests I am taking a cheap
shot at Jerry has a lot of nerve and you and I go a ways back now, about four
years worth, and you of all people know I would not do such a thing.If
anything, I have been accused of being biased towards the Quarrys, which I don't
think is true either but at least that would make some sense as I am a strong
supporter of them. On the other hand, saying I am putting down Jerry
when all I said was the body shot in Frazier 2 was a good one makes no
sense.Oh by the way, the title of my 2002 Quarry vs. Lyle article is
actually, "Quarry upsets Streaking Lyle." If anyone is interested, they can put
this title and the other titles I mentioned in a Google search and the article
link(s) will come up.TOOT! TOOT!|
|9/20/04 06:21:42 PM|Fan|America||OK||||10| As another astute poster said,
Jerry should not even have taken Frazier II. Look at the videos of Quarry-
Frazier I vs. Quarry-Frazier II. Jerry looks like a physically smaller person
in the latter. He didn't just run out of gas in that fight, he had almost
nothing left at that point in his career. Before the fight, the press felt that
Joe was the one who was shot, and favored Quarry to retire him, but it was Jerry
who was further along than they realized. I was there (and, BTW, at Lyle as
well, and several others). As a Quarry fan, it was a terrible night . We all
thought, boy, Jerry's really on his way to the title this time. What a
blow. (P.S. I was at the Hopkins fight, which prompted our present
discussion, the other night. I am sure that our resident journalist was also
in attendance, presumably in the VIP section.) Over the years, I also
had conversations with James, and Mike, and Jerry for that matter, and I have
been a longtime fan (blah blah blah - want my entire resume?) The point is, the
image of Jerry on his knee while poor Joe Louis founders - particularly as
Frazier mercifully implores him to stop the fight - is one that I as a Quarry
fan would rather forget. Kind of like the Norton or Zanon debacles (two guys
Jerry would have taken apart, with ease, in his prime). That's why the
reference to that body shot seemed tantamount (to me) to an Ali fan using the
Larry Holmes fight as a paradigm of some sort. On the other hand, we're
all fans, so why don't we try to become a bit less pedantic and just enjoy the
site.|
|9/20/04 09:09:27 PM|Kent|Tootville||Tootville.com||||10|Fan, again I didn't say
anything about the state of Jerry's skills in Frazier 2 just that the body shot
was a very good punch. I am just surprised that you took such offense to it
because no malice was intended. I don't think anyone else took it as such and I
while I agree, it was something a Quarry fan didn't like to see, all I said was
it was a good example of a hard body shot. It is like when talking to
Mike if someone mentioned the left hook by Foster that knocked him out, Mike
would agree that it was one helluva a punch and he wouldn't be offended by the
comment because it was one helluva a punch!No, I wasn't at Hopkins/De La
Hoya as I am house sitting for a relative who is out of town, planned well in
advance and even if I had gone, I likely would have been in the back of press
row, about six rows back, hardly the VIP section. As I said, I am part time in
my journalism efforts, hardly well known enough to get many perks.I will
be at James Toney's comeback fight against a guy named Rydell Booker this week.
It should be fun as Toney events are usually entertaining.If you wonder
why I was taken aback by your comments, please understand I had no intention of
putting Jerry Quarry down, a fine brave fighter who I admired a lot and continue
to admire. I was surprised you responded the way you did. I hope you can see now
that as I said, no malice was intended. |
|9/21/04 02:07:12 AM|M.G.L. Cini|Roma, remember Virgilio ?||4||||10|I have read