January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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fight Bonavena. I give the edge to <strong>Jerry</strong> in that one but Oscar was one tough<br />
hombre! By the way in Ring Magazine Joe Frazier was quoted as saying after the<br />
first <strong>Quarry</strong> fight " <strong>Quarry</strong> is a hard puncher but I was tagged with stiffer<br />
punches from Bonavena and Ramos" Interesting comment from Smokin' Joe.|<br />
|12/17/02 08:08:09 PM|Jeffery Smith|New Orleans||jls@runbox.com||||7|<strong>Quarry</strong> was<br />
having no trouble hitting the stationary, slow Chuvalo and got distracted, or at<br />
least it appeared that way to me. Chuvalo threw a roundhouse punch that hit<br />
<strong>Jerry</strong> above the temple, jolting his equilibrium. He lost his balance and fell<br />
backwards a bit. Trying to regain his balance, he took about 15 very rapid steps<br />
backward (sort of like the knockdown of James Toney by Roy Jones) and fell on<br />
his butt near the ropes on the other side of the ring. Realizing that he was<br />
still a bit dizzy, he stayed on one knee and jumped up at the count of 10 or<br />
even a bit later. Zack Clayton had to count him out. As Ring magazine said way<br />
back then, "<strong>Jerry</strong> blew it". He had, in fact, knocked Chuvalo back on his heels<br />
just prior to the knockdown.Before the fight, my cousin said "Why are<br />
you guys watching boxing? It's all fixed!". We said "No, Elena, this is the real<br />
thing!". When the fight was over, she walked in and said "Who won?" We said<br />
"Aw, this is all fixed!". :-)It wasn't fixed. Zack was right (but not a<br />
great ref). My votes for the two worst refs in recent history: Johnny LoBiaco<br />
(who let Jose Torres' corner carry him back to his stool instead of counting him<br />
out in round one against Charlie "Devil" Green), and Harold Valan (who gave<br />
Jimmy Ellis a win over Floyd Patterson when nobody in the world apparently saw<br />
the same fight). I liked Richard Steele. He was a good guy. As a boxer, he<br />
couldn't endure pain, and he didn't like seeing boxers in the ring enduring<br />
pain.|<br />
|12/18/02 08:14:46 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|A friend of mine<br />
who used to publish a great boxing newsletter used to call Harold Valen "the<br />
best referee money can buy". Patterson whipped Ellis and got robbed. I<br />
believe the bout took place in Europe. Years ago, I was watching a really boring<br />
prelim fight that everyone was hoping would end at the Garden and someone in the<br />
crowd yelled out "Where's Richard Steel when you need him?"|<br />
|12/18/02 11:54:26 AM|Jeffery Smith|New<br />
Orleans||jls@runbox.com||||7|Patterson/Ellis was outdoors in Sweden. I remember<br />
seeing their breath.|<br />
|12/18/02 03:44:56 PM|Steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|HEY!Jimmy<br />
Dorsey,Kent,and Paul Drolet,what's the deal? I've asked about that Alaska fracas<br />
about five times now with no response!Now Jimmy Dorsey goes and mentions it<br />
again.Have you guy's got a code of silence on this one? C'mon,let's round out<br />
this man's personality for everyone on this site .I need details,yous<br />
guys,details! Please don't take me too seriously.Also,what about the story that<br />
<strong>Jerry</strong> injured his back before before the Ellie fight while engaging in horseplay<br />
with brother Mike and got his back slammed into a cigarette machine? I CANNOT<br />
remember where where Iheard or read it.|<br />
|12/18/02 06:55:44 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Steve, I<br />
don't know anything about what happened in Alaska. That is Jimmy D's<br />
department. Anybody else know what happened? <strong>The</strong> incident where <strong>Jerry</strong> injured<br />
his back happened at the family bar in Bellflower and it was Jimmy <strong>Quarry</strong> who<br />
fell into the jukebox while wrestling with <strong>Jerry</strong>, not Mike. I think Jimmy Q<br />
recounted that story here or he told me himself, I don't remember which. It was<br />
during the celebration of <strong>Jerry</strong>'s win over Thad Spencer to get his title shot.<br />
Needless to say, the boys were doing some drinking. A lot of this stuff was<br />
posted here but it was lost when the old server went down. We lost a lot of<br />
good posts but we also had some troublemakers stirring things up here also that<br />
I don't need to see their posts again, thank you. |<br />
|12/18/02 07:47:47 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA<br />
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@yahoo.com||||10|Steve: Steve one thing Ihave in common<br />
with <strong>Jerry</strong> is I never ducked anything,Okay what do you want to know, when iI was
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