January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

esearched Jerry's whole career from every town he'd ever fought in,and believe
it, Miami,Kansas City,Seattle,Las Vegas,St.Paul, San Antonio,Phoenix,San
Francisco,New York,Atlanta,and all the rest, would not even dream of writing and
belittling Quarry like that L.A. bunch! they should have been happy to make a
living off of him ,and wrote something "positive"|
|9/26/04 03:42:06 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|KENT,Steve,other fellow stooges,I finally
received some L.A. Times microfilm from Pullman Washington,mostly Quarry's bout
with Machen, and I must say the L.A. sportswriters were down right viscious to
Jerry. when is the last time they had a young undefeated heavyweight like
Quarry? or ever! the way they talked you'd have thought the poor guy was 0-20.
Said Machen had better watch it or bumbling clumsey Jerry might knock him into
retirement. Said after Machen decisioned him, "See, told you Quarry cannot fight
and never could." He was only 21!!! I guess he could not fight in the Nationals
either.(record 5 kayoes 5 bouts)I lived that entire mess, growing up I was
appalled then as a kid the way they treated Jerry Quarry, and I'd really
forgotten how bad it really was.Referred to his family as the "Beverly
Hillbillies" I GUESS THAT WOULD MAKE JERRY JETHRO!No wonder Jerry wanted to move
to New York OR London or anywhere! They said teaching Jerry footwork was like
teaching a Polar Bear to play the piano, you don't have much to work with to
start with-Jim Murray.Those L.A. Writers had no class, Including JIM Murray.
They were not watching the same fighter I did for 60 some odd bouts! And of
course they made the big bucks, Las Vegas paper said Machen-Quarry was up for
the California fight of the year, and Jerry himself was nothing but classy
saying.he just was beat by a better fighter, and had went ten rounds with a
punctured ear drum, courtesy of a Machen right hand, bellies the Jetro tag! I've
researched Jerry's whole career from every town he'd ever fought in,and believe
it, Miami,Kansas City,Seattle,Las Vegas,St.Paul, San Antonio,Phoenix,San
Francisco,New York,Atlanta,and all the rest, would not even dream of writing and
belittling Quarry like that L.A. bunch! they should have been happy to make a
living off of him ,and wrote something "positive"|
|9/26/04 03:44:40 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Don't know about the best pound-for-
pound, but inch-for-inch Roy Jones Jnr has spent more time on his back this year
than a Vegas show girl !|
|9/26/04 05:08:31 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|You are right
Jimmy D, the writers here were terrible to Jerry and a lot of them were a bunch
of elitist snob sh*theads who wouldn't know a boxing ring from a circus round or
their as* from a hole in the ground! I would never trash a fighter, any
fighter who puts his safety on the line every time he enters the ring as it
takes a certain amount of guts to fight anyway. Win, lose, or draw, they all
deserve respect.Those writers who dumped on 21 year old Jerry Quarry in
1966 for losing a fight to a long time world class fighter in Machen, who had
dozens of more professional fights than Jerry were just stroking their own egos
by putting Jerry down.Funny, I didn't hear any of these same writers
putting down 31 year old undefeated Ron Lyle for losing his first fight in 1973
to long time world class fighter Jerry Quarry who had many more professional
fights than Lyle had going into the fight. As I remember it, they were saying
Lyle lost to a more experienced fighter that night and that they couldn't write
off Lyle for losing a fight. I don't think they should have put Lyle down
anyway just as they shouldn't have put Jerry down seven years earlier.As
far as Roy Jones is concerned, he just doesn't have it anymore. He needs to
realize he has had a great career and retire or risk hurting himself
permanently. There is no way Jones at his best would have been hit by a lot of
the punches that Glen Johnson hit him with last night and a hittable Roy Jones
is a beatable Roy Jones. There is nothing for him to be ashamed of. he just
reached the point of no return and it is time for him to call it a day.|
|9/26/04 07:16:27 PM|Angelo|DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Roy Jones Jr. certainly