January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

overflowedSpawns Face of Sweet RemembranceOnce lost along Life's
Road.The HEART responds in answerTo Joy that this Sound brings,A
sentiment more preciousThan castles are to Kings.The SCORE has
penetrated allThe SENSES - none are spared -In brave attempt to make
amends For Bonds that weren't shared:A Symphony interpretedSo
powerfully, it seems,That soon its Echoes resonateAs Thunder does - in
Dreams.More, still, than this, acknowledgedIn the Comfort of the
VOICEIs the Kinship that lay dormantUntil there was A
CHOICE.Desires flare to give the VOICEA TEXTURE, TASTE, and
SMELLAnd to feast a pair of famished EyesOn Those once known so
well.Yet, how does one become so boldAs to speak the VOICE's
NameAnd give it Arms and Lips and ThingsTo which LONGING might lay
claim?Perhaps it's wisest after allTo endure the Status Quo
...What if THE WHOLE becomes so Dear,One cannot AGAIN let go?So,
to a wiser Universe From whence this Gift has come, I proffer it with
GratitudeAnd a Prayer ITS WILL be done.|
|1/30/03 02:22:48 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|Steve.How am I being single-minded? |
|1/30/03 11:49:06 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Does anyone know
what ever became of Joe "King" Roman the former heavyweight who fought Foreman?
Hope he is OK. I think he used to live in Florida. I know that Jose Urtain the
Spanish heavyweight killed himself some years back.|
|1/30/03 02:57:57 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|JOHN GERARD: I did not know that JOSE
"IBAR" URTAIN had killed himself.Can you give me they details?I always thought
Urtain was over rated, and Nat Fleicher "RING MAGAZINE". Really took interest in
him,saying only BONAVENA could match him in strength.To me that was one of the
few times, RING MAGS RATINGS WERE INACCURATE, how could you have rated ROMAN
OVER NORTON IN 1973?Or even any other time,from sept.1967 to may.1975,only 37
heavyweights graced RING MAGAZINES TOP TEN LISTINGS,NOW THAT TO ME IS ACCURATE.|
|1/30/03 09:37:12 PM|FOREST WARD|SOUTH CAROLINA||JOEKEVIN@CS.COM||||8|JIMMY
DORSEY, SADLY A TAPE DOES NOT EXIST OF THE QUARRY-MATHIS FIGHT. I WAS AT THAT
FIGHT. MATHIS WAS A HEAVY FAVORITE. JERRY TAGGED HIM WITH A LEFT HOOK HIGH ON
THE HEAD IN THE SECOND ROUND AND MATHIS SUFFERRED A DELAYED REACTION AND WENT
DOWN ON ONE KNEE AND TOOK A MANDATORY 8 COUNT. IT WAS OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE AT MSG
THAT NIGHT THAT BUSTER WAS SCARED STIFF OF JERRY. WHAT WAS NOT WELL KNOWN AT
THE TIME WAS THAT MATHIS AND HIS HANDLERS WENT TO JERRY'S CAMP AT GROSSINGERS 3
WEEKS BEFORE THE FIGHT FOR A PRE-FIGHT PHYSICAL. MATHIS TRIED TO PULL AN "ALI"
BY BOASTING AND THREATENING JERRY. IMMEDIATELY ON THE SPOT QUARRY TOLD MATHIS
TO "GET THE F..K OUT OF MY CAMP OR I WILL KICK THE SH.T OUT YOU RIGHT NOW."
MANY PEOPLE INCLUDING MATHIS'S TRAINER THE LATE JOEY FARIELLO SAID THE FIGHT WAS
DECIDED THEN AND THERE. AFTER THAT MOMENT MATHIS WAS TERRIFIED OF QUARRY.
DURING THE FIGHT, JERRY WOULD WALK IN AND LEFT HOOKED MATHIS TO STOMACHE, MATHIS
WOULD GRUNT AND CLINCH. THIS CONTINUED FOR THE WHOLE 12 ROUNDS, EVEN SO IT WAS
STILL AN EXITING FIGHT. JERRY WON EASILY 10 OF THE 12 ROUNDS. ADDING INSULT TO
INJURY MATHIS SPLIT THE SEAM IN HIS TRUNKS DURING THE FIGHT, AND BETWEEN ROUNDS
HE HAD TO SLIP ON ANOTHER PAIR OVER THE RIPPED TRUNKS.DURING THE PRE-FIGHT
INTRODUCTIONS THEY INTRODUCED ROCKY MARCIANO, AND HE WALKED TO JERRY'S CORNER
AND WISHED HIM LUCK (OR SO I IMAGINE), AND THEN ROCKY WALKED OUT OF THE RING
WITHOUT GOING OVER TO BUSTER'S CORNER, AND WISHING HIM LUCK. EVERYONE IN THE
CROWD NOTICED THE SNUB. AFTER THE FIGHT I AM IN THE SUBWAY AND WHO DO I SEE BUT
JOE FRAZIER AND YANK DURHAM. I ASK JOE HOW HE WILL HANDLE QUARRY (AT THAT MOMENT
I AM CONVINCED JERRY WILL KO FRAZIER WHEN THEY MEET), JOE REPLIES,"I AIN'T GOING
TO RUN FROM HIM." IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT I WAS ALL OF 15 YEARS OLD.|
|1/31/03 10:19:20 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|ON JOSE URTAIN:
yes, I read a few articles about his death. It was revealed that most of his
fights were fixed. They even interviewed one of the guys who lay down for him in
the 1970's. Ring Magazine made a big deal of him because he reminded them of