January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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<strong>The</strong> recent James Toney verses Vassily Jirov fight for the crusierweight title<br />
was a good fight. What was ironic about that fight is the HBO announcers<br />
thought it was up for grabs going into the last round and even Toney's trainer,<br />
Freddie Roach, told Toney he needed at least a knockdown in the last round to<br />
win the fight. Toney did just that, he knocked Jirov down but when the judges<br />
scores were annouced, Toney had won by at least 6 points on all three judges<br />
scorecards. Jirov did lose a point earlier in the fight for low blows but most<br />
people who watched the fight didn't agree that Toney had won by at least five<br />
points (without the one point deduction). Sometimes I wonder what fights judges<br />
are watching.|<br />
|5/19/03 12:14:27 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z||||10|I don't think boxing sucks,<br />
I think the heavyweight division does. Tyson is an exciting fighter but past his<br />
prime. Roy Jones is a great one, but is so selective about whom he fights, I<br />
wish he would just stay in the light heavy division. Klitchko was exposed<br />
recently and as fine a champ Lennox Lewis is, he is near 38. For his own health,<br />
Holyfield should have quite five years ago. Michael Grant is a ko waiting to<br />
happen and Joe Mesi seems to be content to be the terror of the hinterlands. I<br />
like David Tua and I wish more top guys would agree to fight him. |<br />
|5/19/03 03:59:29 PM|Mark Sargeant|uk||lpu00mts@reading.ac.uk||||10|Heavyweights<br />
should be fighting three or four times a year and against top ten or twelve<br />
contenders-makes it far better! Tua vs Klitschko, Rahman vs Tyson, Byrd vs<br />
Grant|<br />
|5/20/03 12:33:53 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA<br />
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|ONE THING,that always bothered me during<br />
<strong>Jerry</strong> <strong>Quarry</strong>'s career,When the man beat a top contender,they would downgrade the<br />
opponent(Spencer,Mathis,Foster,Lyle,Shavers).Rather than build up JQ,although he<br />
did get 4 bouts with ALI,JOE FRAZIER.<strong>The</strong> Jack Bodell,really backs what i'm<br />
saying,EVERYONE had Bodell in the top ten,WBA,WBC,RING MAGAZINE.So <strong>Jerry</strong> KO'S<br />
him in 64 seconds,now he's a bum.Europeon,Commonwealth Champ).I do not recall<br />
everyone in a hurry to get in the ring With,Foster,Lyle, And Shavers. Before JQ<br />
BEAT THEM,AND Larry Middleton was ranked as high as fourth by the WBA,Even<br />
Zanon, was EUROPE'S best heavyweight, When he fought JERRY.|<br />
|5/21/03 09:59:13 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|I looked up<br />
the records of the following figters when they fought <strong>Jerry</strong>. Earnie<br />
Shavers 45-2Buster Mathis 29-1Mac Foster 24-0Ron Lyle<br />
19-0Larry Middleton 20-1-1Lorenzo Zanon 20-3-1Thad Spencer 32-<br />
5Jack Bodell 58-10As a group they had a record of 247-22-2 when<br />
they fought <strong>Jerry</strong>. For an average record of about 30-3. So it looks like they<br />
earned their high rankings and that it was quite an acomplishment that <strong>Jerry</strong><br />
beat all of these fighters. |<br />
|5/22/03 02:26:25 AM|Ed|Cicero N Y||Mooseygoop@aol.com||||10|Quite a list<br />
Kent..I remember seeing the Shavers fight on espn classic and they introduced a<br />
lot of famous fighters before the fight, so it was good to c <strong>Jerry</strong> impressive in<br />
that one ( 1 round k o for <strong>Jerry</strong>).Ali put on a big show in ring before<br />
fight...Any idea when that custom of having famous fighters in audience<br />
introduced ended? My thinking is when the alphabet champions watered down the<br />
meaning of champions and left the public confused about who the champ is, might<br />
have had something to do with it...this last espn classic (Moore vs<br />
Marciano)had Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Max Baer, Jim Braddock, Mickey Walker<br />
amoung others introduced..Talk about having fight legends all together at<br />
once!..Another thing, the Moore/Marciano fight was broadcast to theaters, (TNT<br />
closed circuit I think), I had no idea they did that that early (1955).|<br />
|5/22/03 01:29:59 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA<br />
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|KENT:thanks for looking up the<br />
records,and backing up what WE were trying to say(STOOGES STICK TOGETHER IN THE<br />
FEARLESS LEADERS CLUB).Howard Cosell,Although he seemed to like <strong>Jerry</strong>,Is about<br />
as far weather as a columnist can get,He said Lyle losing to <strong>Jerry</strong> was hard to
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