January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

has nothing to be ashamed of---he was indeed a fine fighter for many years, but
I don't think he was ever as great as the press made him out to be, or as he
made himself out to be. He was in the right place at the right time, won a lot
of fights, did so impressively, but never won a fight where he was tested and
pushed hard. It's similar to Pipino Cuevas---everyone talked about how great he
was pound for pound, how he was the next Duran, etc., until Thomas Hearns
destroyed him fast. |
|9/26/04 11:53:42 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|I haven't seen Rodolfo Jones in the
ring that much but the few times I did he looked great !He did float like a
butterfly and did sting like a bee, just like Erminio Spalla ! He gave Giacomo
Toney a boxing lesson !|
|9/27/04 01:01:07 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Roy Jones's chin deteriorated that
quickly I'm left wondering whether it had anything to do with the rapid weight
gain he had when he jumped up for the Ruiz fight. Did he take steroids
to put the weight on ? Is that somehow the cause of the rapid deterioration in
his skills and the sturdiness of his jaw ?|
|9/27/04 03:35:09 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Angelo,
Pipino Cuevas and Jones are two different type of fighters. Jones, at his best
was a brilllant counter puncher who used his great defensive skills to make
fighters miss and he would make them pay with fast punches of his
own.The comarison does make sense if you consider that apparently both
fighters have the same problem, a weak chin.Cuevas was a slugger with
otherwise limited skills and if someone found a way to avoid his power, he was
very beatable. In Hearns' case he stayed on the outside and he used his long
reach to hurt Cuevas before Cuevas could get close enough to do damage of his
own.I think Cuevas' people avoided Sugar Ray Leonard because Leonard
would have boxed circles around Cuevas from the outside and would have either
won a lopsided decision or stopped Cuevas in the mid rounds.Cuevas was
very effective when he could get inside of a fighter and brawl but even then his
chin would sometimes let him down. I remember a brawl with Duran in which
Cuevas lost by about a fifth or sixth round knockout.|
|9/27/04 03:39:15 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Was the Machen-Quarry fight one-sided
or did Jerry hold his own ?|
|9/27/04 07:02:08 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Kent: True
enough, all comments. But while Jones and Cuevas are different fighters, and
Jones accomplished a lot more holding the title, I do believe his mystique has
tarnished horribly. He was a top notch fighter and as I said, accomplished a
lot, but his last few fights have relugated him to "very, very good" instead of
all-time great, in my opinion. And I guess one of my issues is that in my mind,
I feel he really started to believe his own hype, which was soundly thrashed. |
|9/27/04 11:08:18 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Glen
Johnson surprised everyone by defending his title---it just goes to show that on
a given night, anything can happen. I think Johnson figured that he'd force the
action and make Jones go on the defensive from the beginning. Johnson probably
thought "Who is this guy to take my belt and mess with my family's future!!"
I'm impressed that Jones hung in and fought back, but at this point, Jones
should consider hanging it up. He's done all he could do and has a lot of
money. Time to move on. The type of one punch KO's he's endured are scary---
he's a fine champion who dominated the sport for a couple years---there's no
reason to get hurt. Ditto for Riddick Big Daddy Bowe. He won his first
comeback fight, but he's been smart with his money (supposedly has many
millions) so why come back? He says he misses the lights, attentionand
glory. |
|9/27/04 04:17:03 PM|i|VENTURA CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|KENT, I
ALSO LOOKED UP BOXING REGISTER, THEY DO RECORDS LIKE I DO BY HIGHLIGHTING TOP
TEN OPPONENTS, JERRY IS OFFICIALLY 8-5-1 4 KNOCKOUTS, ALTHOUGH ALI I ,AND
CHUVALO DID NOT MAKE HIS LIST. NORTON WAS 4-7-1. FRAZIER 9-4 5 KNOCKOUTS, ALI