January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|3/17/03 09:32:58 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|THEN AGAIN FOREST,QUARRY-BONAVENA MIGHT
BE A CLASSIC,I STILL THINK IT WOULD BAY A JERRY WIN, FOR YOU SEE THEIR
INTANGIBLES, JERRY WAS 7-0 VS THE TOP TEN WHOM NEVER WORE A BELT,(ALBEIT CHUVALO
WAS NOT IN THEY OFFICIAL TOP TEN AT THE TIME HE TOOK ON JERRY).SPENCER #1,MATHIS
#6,FOSTER #1,BODELL#8,MIDDLETON#7,LYLE #3,SHAVERS #6. I THINK JERRY WOULD HAVE
APPROACHED THIS PARTICULAR BOUT DIFFERANTLY,AND COUNTER PUNCHED OSCAR TO DEATH,
LIKE HE SHOULD HAVE DONE TO FRAZIER,DON'T GET ME WRONG I HAVE ALL THE RESPECT
FOR RINGO IN THE WORLD,YUR RIGHT HE WAS DAMN CRAFTY IN AN AWKWARD SORT OF
WAY,AND COULD NEVER BEAT ANYONE FROM THE TOP 5 UP.THEY WERE SIGNED IN 73'FOR THE
GARDEN, AND RINGO PULLED OUT,SOMEONE AT THE TIME SAID HE WAS DUCKING QUARRY, I
THINK THE REAL REASON,HE NEEDED MORE TIME TO TRAIN.|
|3/17/03 10:48:39 PM|Keith White|Seattle, WA||QUARRYJKW@AOL.com||||10|Would
Jerry Quarry in his prime KO the Mike Tyson of the last ten years???? I think
Jerry in his prime (Lyle,Shavers,Alexander wins) would paste a Tyson of the last
ten years.... Jerry loved it when punchers would go into him with average
defenses.... This is why big George Foreman didn't want anything to do with
Jerry.|
|3/18/03 07:01:43 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|FOREST: In all
honestly, I find Quarry-Bonavena too close to call, but if I had to bet, I would
have bet on Jerry. But I do remember Oscar koing German champ Karl Mildenburger
who was pretty good. I think the worst Oscar looked was against Ellis where he
went down twice. Oscar's best fight was his loss to Frazier in their first
fight. It really could have been called a draw. Oscar was also having a hard
time with Blue Lewis in Argentina until the ref came to his rescue and
disqualifed Al for some occult reason. I rate Dick Tiger as one of the strongest
non-heavys of all time. A real tough workman and a class guy. I believe the
reason why Quarry-Bonavena was cancelled was because Oscar broke his left hand.
After the operation he fought Patterson instead at the Garden (and lost).
Patterson had just turned down a fight with Kirkman in Seattle promoted by Jack
Hurly.|
|3/18/03 01:10:25 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Tyson would stop Quarry in the manner
Frazier did. Too quick and too good is Mr Tyson. Definitely in my top ten (of
which there are fifteen!!)|
|3/18/03 02:53:55 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Jerry was a very
good, gutsy fighter, but Tyson would have been too much for him. Too fast, too
strong. Shavers, Lyle, and Foster did not have Tyson's hand speed or ability to
throw combinations from all angles. |
|3/18/03 04:15:13 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|The question
was could Jerry beat the Tyson of the last ten years, not an in prime Tyson. I
think Jerry at his best may have been able to take a past his prime but a still
very dangerous Tyson but an in prime Tyson, I don't think Jerry could beat that
version.|
|3/18/03 04:29:50 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|I DON'T KNOW I'D RATHER SEE JERRY IN
THERE WITH TYSON,THEN EITHER HOLYFIELD OR LENNOX LEWIS,TO ME TYSON'S THEY MOST
OVERRATED CHAMP IN HISTORY,AND LARRY HOLMES PROBABLY THEY MOST UNDERRATED,I KNOW
ONE THING YOU ALL MIGHT AGREE WITH,WHOMEVER FOUGHT JERRY (SAY TOP 20). FROM 1965
TONY DOYLE TO 1977 LORENZO ZANON,AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN ALI.FRAZIER,NORTON,LYLE
SHAVERS,FOSTER,CHUVALO,ETC,WHERE ALL IN TIP TOP SHAPE, THAT TELLS YOU SOMETHING
ABOUT MR.QUARRY,I'LL DIG FOR THAT ARTICLE ON BONAVENA-QUARRY AND WHY IT WAS
POSTPONED !|
|3/18/03 05:26:25 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|John, you
are probably right about Tyson vs. Quarry. The one wild card in that fight
would be if Jerry intimidated Tyson by not fearing him. As we saw when Tyson
fought Hollyfield. When Tyson could not intimidate someone he became an ordinary
fighter. Where as Quarry when he thought he could beat someone he became next to