January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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NICE GUY WHO MANAGED AMONG OTHERS, TIGER JONES IN THE 50'S. AROUND 1968 BURTON<br />
STARTED FIGHTING AS LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT. I SAW HIM FIGHT JIMMY DUPREE ON THE<br />
UNDERCARD OF THE DICK TIGER-FRANKIE DEPAULA CARD IN OCT OF 1968. AT THAT TIME<br />
JIMMY DUPREE WAS GOING WELL AND HE TOO HAD TROUBLE GETTING FIGHTS. SO THE FIGHT<br />
WAS A NATURAL RIGHT? WRONG! IT WAS A DULL FIGHT AND THEY FOUGHT TO A DRAW.<br />
DUPREE FREELY ADMITTED AFTER THE FIGHT HE WAS CAUTIOUS OF BURTON BECAUSE OF<br />
BURTONS REPUTATION, AND APPARENTLY BURTON FELT THE SAME WAY ABOUT DUPREE'S<br />
REPUTATION. WELL NOW WE MOVE TO OCT 1969, AND BURTON IS FIGHTING AS A<br />
HEAVYWEIGHT, BECAUSE HE COULD NOT GET FIGHTS AS A LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT. HE WAS<br />
BEATING LUIS PIRES PRETTY HANDILY, UNTIL PIRES CAUGHT HIM IN THE 7TH ROUND AND<br />
KNOCKED HIM OUT. BURTON FOUGHT PIRES ONE MORE TIME AND WAS KNOCKED OUT AGAIN.<br />
GOD BLESSED BURTON, HE GAVE HIM THE WISDOM TO CALL IT A CAREER, AND BURTON NEVER<br />
FOUGHT AGAIN.A LITTLE HISTORY ON THE SAME NIGHT BURTON WAS KNOCKED OUT<br />
BY PIRES, OCT.31, 1969. ANOTHER FAVORITE OF MINE FOREST WARD WAS KNOCKED OUT BY<br />
BILL DROVER, THAT WAS WARD'S LAST FIGHT TOO. MIKE QUARRY WON A TOUGH 8 RD<br />
DECISION AGAINST RUBEN FIGUEROA, THAT NIGHT. THIS WAS A REMATCH, THEY FOUGHT A<br />
CLOSE FIGHT IN JUNE ON THE UNDERCARD OF QUARRY-FRAZIER. INTERESTINGLY THERE WAS<br />
ALMOST A RIOT IN THE GARDEN WHEN THE DECISION WAS ANNOUNCED IN QUARRY'S FAVOR.<br />
AMONG THE CONTRIBUTUING FACTORS TO THE NEAR RIOT WERE:#1 THE LATIN FANS IN THE<br />
AUDIENCE WHO THOUGHT FIGUEROA WAS ROBBED, #2 THE ALCOHOL THEY CONSUMED, AND<br />
LASTLY #3 MUHAMMAD ALI WAS IN THE AUDIENCE AND HE WAS INCITING THE LATINS.<br />
BEFORE ANYONE ATTACKS ME FOR SOILING THE NAME OF MUHAMMAD ALI, REMEMBER THIS WAS<br />
OCT. OF 1969, AND ALI WAS VEHEMENT ANTI WHITE, ANTI ESTABLISHMENT BLACK MUSLIM<br />
AT THAT TIME. GUESS WHAT PROBABLY PREVENTED THR RIOT. THER WAS ONE MORE FIGHT<br />
LEFT, THE MAIN EVENT, GEORGE FOREMAN AGAINST ROBERTO DAVILLA. THE FANS WANTED TO<br />
SEE THE MAIN EVENT SO THEY DID NOT RIOT. NO THANKS TO MUHAMMAD ALI. SORRY<br />
FOR BEING SO LONG WINDED BUT SEEING WILLIE BURTONS NAME BROUGHT BACK LONG LOST<br />
MEMORIES. |<br />
|3/6/03 02:12:29 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|FOREST: Thanks so<br />
much for all that info on Willie Burton. I am glad Willie got out when it was<br />
time to. I hope he is doing very well and is aware of how many good memories he<br />
gave the fans. Another guy who I thought was going places but never did was the<br />
Florida giantAl Jones (not Memphis Al Jones) who fought in the Miami area in<br />
the late 60's under Chrisand Angelo Dundee. He was a 6'6" southpaw and look<br />
pretty good for a while. |<br />
|3/6/03 07:22:45 PM|FOREST WARD|SOUTH CAROLINA||JOEKEVIN@CS.COM||||6|JOHN, WHEN<br />
I READ YOUR POSTS I FEEL LIKE I AM LOOKING IN A MIRROR. I OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT<br />
AL JONES MYSELF. TEN YEARS AGO BUMPED INTO BOXING HISTORIAN HANK KAPLAN OF<br />
MIAMI, AND I ASKED HIM ABOUT AL JONES, AND WHAT HAPPENNED? WELL, THE 1ST THING<br />
YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT HANK KAPLAN IS THAT HE IS A GENTLEMAN, AND HE DOES NOT TALK<br />
BAD ABOUT ANYONE. THAT BEING THE CASE, I DID NOT LEARN TOO MUCH! ALTHOUGH HANK<br />
SAID, THAT AT ONE POINT IN AL JONES CAREER HE WON A SETTLEMENT IN A CAR<br />
ACCIDENT, AND THIS MAY HAVE DULLED HIS AMBITION. READING BETWEEN THE LINES IF<br />
YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT AL JONES RECORD YOU SEE THAT HE FOUGHT A LOT OF JOURNEY MEN,<br />
AND ALMOST ALWAYS IN MIAMI BEACH. INCLUDING A DRAW WITH ZORA FOLLEY IN 1968<br />
(FOLLEY HAD TO BE CLOSE 40 AT THE TIME); AND A DRAW WITH LOUIS PIREZ (WILLIE<br />
BURTONS CONQUERER) IN 1970. IF HE GOT A DRAW IN HIS HOMETOWN WITH THESE GUYS HE<br />
PROBABLY LOST THE FIGHT. HE WAS ALSO A SOUTHPAW, THAT OF COURSE DID NOT HELP<br />
HIS CAREER.|<br />
|3/6/03 07:23:02 PM|FOREST WARD|SOUTH CAROLINA||JOEKEVIN@CS.COM||||6|JOHN, WHEN<br />
I READ YOUR POSTS I FEEL LIKE I AM LOOKING IN A MIRROR. I OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT<br />
AL JONES MYSELF. TEN YEARS AGO BUMPED INTO BOXING HISTORIAN HANK KAPLAN OF<br />
MIAMI, AND I ASKED HIM ABOUT AL JONES, AND WHAT HAPPENNED? WELL, THE 1ST THING<br />
YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT HANK KAPLAN IS THAT HE IS A GENTLEMAN, AND HE DOES NOT TALK<br />
BAD ABOUT ANYONE. THAT BEING THE CASE, I DID NOT LEARN TOO MUCH! ALTHOUGH HANK<br />
SAID, THAT AT ONE POINT IN AL JONES CAREER HE WON A SETTLEMENT IN A CAR<br />
ACCIDENT, AND THIS MAY HAVE DULLED HIS AMBITION. READING BETWEEN THE LINES IF