January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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his fights with Dwight {the Camden buzzsaw}Braxton?He also changed his name to<br />
Dwight Quawi. |<br />
|12/6/02 03:04:14 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA<br />
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|I was just going to mention, all 3 of<br />
those, LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS RECENTLY,FRANKLIN,BRAXTON,JOHNSON,JERRY MARTIN<br />
ETC.GUESS WE ARE HAVING A PHILLY WINTER!!DIDN'T JOHNSON FINALLY KO<br />
GALINDEZ?FRANKLIN WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITES,I REMEMBER HIM CUTTING AROUND THE EYES<br />
ALOT IN HIS BIG BOUTS, SO DID GALINDEZ OF COURSE WHO BEAT THEM ALL, EDDIE<br />
GREGORY ETC,I KNOW GALINDEZ WAS A BRAWLER, BUT HAD BOXING ABILITY A SMART<br />
CORNER,AND COULD ALWAYS SEEM TO GO 15 ROUNDS,WONDER HOW MIKE QUARRY WOULD HAVE<br />
FARED?I CAN ALSO REMEMBER WHEN HE FOUGHT RAY "THE BULL" ELSON. ON AN ALI<br />
UNDERCARD, SEEMS ALL THOSE GREAT ARGENTINE BOXERS DIED IN TRAGEDY,<br />
MONZON,BONAVENA,GALINDEZ, |<br />
|12/6/02 03:12:21 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA<br />
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|KENT:where is the battle of the bouncers<br />
supposed to take place?Bakersfield fairgrounds?also did you know Mike WEAVER'S<br />
OLD MANAGER ALSO HANDLED "scrap iron" JOHNSON? Don MANGUAL,AND CAN YOU LOOK UP<br />
SOME MICROFILM AT THEIR LIBRARY FOR ME, ITS EASY, AND EASY TO GET TO?? TAKE<br />
CARE!|<br />
|12/6/02 06:27:03 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|If George was just a slugger then<br />
name another fighter who achieved what George did over a period of 30 years<br />
including the Olympic Gold with these limited abilities.I love <strong>Quarry</strong> to bits<br />
and have most of the material available on him. But to say that he could have<br />
beaten Foreman is unrealistic in my opinion. True, you never can tell what can<br />
happen in the ring but statistics speak for ability in this case.For those who<br />
say George is just a slugger I say to them you have EXTREMELY LIMITED knowledge<br />
of Boxing.Watch Foreman against Jack O'Halloran and see how George outboxes the<br />
bigger man for a few rounds then destroys him. |<br />
|12/6/02 07:34:55 PM|Jeffery Smith|New Orleans||jls@runbox.com||||6|Perhaps I'm<br />
overrating him here, but in retrospect, whenever I expected George to win, he<br />
lost (Ali, Young, Holyfield, Morrison), and whenever I expected <strong>Jerry</strong> to lose,<br />
he won (Foster, Lyle, Shavers, Mathis). And it is because he won against<br />
overwhelming power punchers. My "vision" of <strong>Jerry</strong> is not from 1974 on, but<br />
between 1967 and 1974, when he was at his prime. Some fighters are able to fight<br />
and do a credible job for 3 decades (Foreman), and some are at their peak for a<br />
relatively short time (<strong>Quarry</strong>, Frazier). I thought Frazier was unbeatable. I<br />
thought Foreman was unbeatable. I thought Tyson was unbeatable. When they lost,<br />
they lost BIG, as in humiliating defeats. <strong>Jerry</strong> was tiny by today's standards,<br />
but he packed more oomph in 200 lbs than anyone other than Dempsey and<br />
Marciano.<strong>Jerry</strong> <strong>Quarry</strong> had the misfortune of having been born in the same<br />
era as Frazier and Ali. He was a much smarter and faster boxer than Foreman. I<br />
love George to death, but he was a bulldozer who could be avoided. He was<br />
probably at his best when he fought Boone Kirkman the first time because he<br />
didn't stop to admire his work. Two years later, he stopped not to admire his<br />
work but to catch his breath. His feet were in cement. <strong>Jerry</strong> had a field day<br />
with guys with their feet in cement.I'm not trying to be difficult. I<br />
rehearsed <strong>Quarry</strong> versus Foreman 1,000 in my head. <strong>Jerry</strong> always won. :-<br />
)By the way, I saw Jack O'Halloran fight many times (he became a San<br />
Diego native soon after George ate his lunch). Another truly good guy, but not a<br />
fighter. Mac Foster demolished him in one as I remember.|<br />
|12/6/02 07:45:09 PM|Gerry Schultz|Ohio||geraldschultz162@msn.com||||10|On this<br />
Foreman thing, Evren you certainly have right to your view, and I may be<br />
repeating my take on this, but I don't see big George your way. Foreman was<br />
runner-up for the Olympics in '68. <strong>The</strong> winner was a <strong>Quarry</strong>-like Clay Hodges, who<br />
went to Vietnam, so George could win the gold. George won that gold by being a<br />
huge intimidating kid, not by being the best, which is no discredit to Foreman.<br />
<strong>The</strong> best man cannot win if he doesn't think he can. Foreman has admited to