January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

punchers like Buddy Baer and Max Baer ! Besides this he had the Chuvalo's chin
and the Quarry's heart !!!! Tubby, I'm not so sure about that fights ( Lewis-
Marciano, Tyson-Marciano) like you are ! How tall is Joe Bugner ? Surely he is
taller than Ali' and I have read he is 6'4". So he must be taller than 6' 4''
!Tubby, maybe Shaq is better than Wilt in at least 1 thing: he is more
powerful than Wilt was ! He weights much more. Is it a vain hope ? My friendly
greetings to everybody !|
|8/27/03 01:07:06 AM|Kent Appel|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Tubby, I
knew Larry Hughes from La Habra. His parents lived accross the street from me
for a while and he was my baseball coach for La Habra Little League division for
teenagers 16 to 18 years old and he used to coach the La Habra boxing club that
met at the Catholic Church and he also helped out at the La Habra boys club
along with an older Italian gentleman who's name escapes me at the moment.
Larry Hughes was one tough dude and I remember him in a baseball fight
taking on, almost single handedly, the entire opposing team. I worked out from
time to time at both the church boxing club and the boys club but I never
competed on the team. Nowadays, from what I have heard, Larry is active
in veterans issues.Ironically, I also worked for the Santa Ana
recreation department during the the mid 1980s and occasionly worked out at the
boxing club at Jerome center in Santa Ana and you are right, both La Habra and
Santa Ana had some very good amatuers although my time was in the 1970s in La
Habra and, as I mentioned, the mid 1980s in Santa Ana. I have heard
they have an excellent program here in La Habra now at the Gary Center but I
haven't made it down there as yet. I understand that light heavyweight
contender Julio Gonzalez works out there frequently.|
|8/27/03 04:26:44
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hormail.com||||10|To James Quarry -
Hi! I've been doing a lot of reading in your archives, and I notice
you've posted every so often. What I think would be really cool would be for
you, if you had the time, to post "insider" stuff. What Jerry thought of his
different opponents, Ali, Frazier, others., thoughts he had about his sport,
about himself, what he did to train, things he did to prepare for different
opponents, things of that nature. We fans read, we watch film and video, and so
forth, but insights from the guys who were ~there~ are always a treasure to
encounter. Not just the stuff they say for the media vultures, but the ~real~
stuff! :-)|
|8/27/03 04:40:43 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Well, I for
one HAVEN'T forgotten how good George Foreman was. I respected his power and
fighting ability. He was a great champion (twice) and if you combine his raw
power and youth from his 1970s incarnation with the patience and maturity of his
1990's version, you'd have maybe the best ever. Still, with that said, let's
face it: Muhammad Ali knocked him out in 1974. Foreman was younger, stronger
and the standing champion. Ali was 32-33 years old, past his prime, not as fast
as he once was, and entered the fight with losses to Frazier and Norton.
Basically, Ali exposed some problems with Foreman's game. Then, a couple years
later, Jimmy Young took on a still dangerous and even dominant Foreman, and
dismantled him over 12 rounds, even scoring a knockdown. You could make a lot
of excuses about the Ali fight---Foreman suffered a cut during training that
threw him off his training and delayed the fight. Foreman underestimated
Ali.Foreman had a fast count (though he was so exhaused, Ali would have
finished him in more dramatic fashion if the fight continued). But for the
Young fight, Foreman was well trained, well rested and knew what was on the
line. Jimmy Young simply had a good plan and stuck with it, again, exposing the
chinks in George's armour. It's for this reason that Quarry would have a
fighting chance, as a decided underdog, to upset Foreman. But here's
another one to ponder: Ron Lyle vs. Ken Norton, both at their peak. I think
this would be a very interesting matchup. Norton had trouble against sluggers,