January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

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|12/22/04 03:20:59 PM|Kent|La Habra. Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|James Toney
has the heart of a lion. He is definitly old school in that regard and that
makes up for his lack of size. Never mind he shoots his big mouth off because
he delivers what he says. He tore his right bicep muscle in the first round of
his fight with Rydell Booker, a painful injury, and he gave Booker an essetially
one armed beating for twelve rounds. Also, years ago when he was still a
middleweight, he was suffering leg cramps throughout the whole fight agaisnt a
fighter named Dave Tiberi. It was a very close fight that a lot of people
thought Tiberi had won but the decision went to Toney. I have that fight on
tape and I thought it was very close but Toney had pulled out the decision
because he was sliding with and blocking a lot of Tiberi's punches and he was
landing enough punches of his own to hang on to the title. The point is, a lot
of fighters, especially today, would have quit from the pain but Toney didn't
quit.A few years ago Vitali Klitschko was ahead on all of the scorecards
against Chris Byrd after nine rounds of a twelve round when he suffered a
painful shoulder injury and didn't come out for the tenth round, giving the
fight to Byrd by TKO. Do you think our own Jerry Quarry would have
quit in the same situation? Hell no! Jerry would have fought one armed the
rest of the way!Vitali did redeem himself when he fougnht Lennox Lewis
so he does have a fair amount if heart. My question about him is maybe the cut
didn't hurt too much, even if it was bad and if he had suffered the shoulder
injury instead, would he have quit again? |
|12/22/04 05:21:03 PM|Sonia Hathaway (Quarry)|Joshua Tree,
CA||Sonia90101@aol.com||||10|Hi All. Hope you all have a good and safe Holiday.
Dad, and Uncle Jerry, you are surely missed, and you can really tell it on the
site as well as in our hearts. I love & miss you Dad, and Uncle Jerry. Lets get
back to boxing. Hope you all keep visiting this site.|
|12/22/04 05:44:17 PM|Noam|same||jrygtyu||||10|Hi KentI agree that Toney
has a lot of mongrel and heart, but to be frank he is only a blown-up short
heavyweight who wouldn't have lasted more than a few seconds with guys like
Foreman, Holmes, Ali, Frazier, Jack Johnson, et al.I just don't think he
has the skills to overcome his physical limitations against Vitali K. However,
because Toney does get in the ring to really fight, I'd much rather watch him
than any of the other heavies. Besides, watching Toney makes me feel Hollywood
handsome and gorgeous. What happened to his face, Kent ? Did you see him playing
Frazier in that silly Ali movie ? SCAAAAARY ! Angelo is absolutely right
about the current lot of heavyweights. They are big with all the nutritional
advances etc, but where have the skills and toughness gone ? Muscle Marys
?.Are there any heavies today who even come close to a Frazier left
hook, Louis's power, Liston's intimidation, Holmes's jab, Ali's ring craft,
Quarry's never quit, Foreman's awesomeness, and Baer's showmanship (and Primo's
gigantism and clumsy awkwardness and those ridiculous socks and boots - are they
Italian national dress ?).The current lot are the most disappointing in
history. I can't get excited about any of them. There'd be more action if
Massimo fought this new guy Koo (is that the name ? what does it mean ?) or
perhaps Howard C. v Gerry.Toney might have that madman appeal, but to
get pumped about watching fights you have to go to the lower weights. I really
enjoyed watching that Russian Kosta Zoo beating Mitchell. De La Hoya is always
fun to watch (Zoo v De La Hoya might happen, too). But the current heavies are
no hopers (in my opinion).Whatever happened to the era when we'd be so
excited counting the days down to an anticipated fight. The adrenaline hasn't
pumped for ages for a heavyweight fight. Probably the last time was Holyfield v
Tyson half a decade ago. |
|12/23/04 01:54:25 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Noam-If KooKoo is new, Wilt
was short and Albert was dumb !|
|12/23/04 08:50:23 AM|Angelo|Washington,