January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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shoulder and side in it, in smooth strokes. Look at the perfection of Larry<br />
Holmes's left jab. <strong>The</strong> idea of swinging from the sole of your feet is Rocky<br />
Balboa crap. If you do that, your little sister is going to catch you off<br />
balance and push you to the canvas with her left hook. Hell yes, I'd pick<br />
Larry over Joe. It's another extreme size mismatch. Holmes was a great, great<br />
champion who did not lose for years. I never liked Frazier nearly as much as<br />
anyone else, maybe because he was so damned busy. He squandered 50% of his<br />
energy huffing and puffing and bobbing. He needed that for himself somehow, and<br />
it scared a lot of opponents. Yes, I do think his meeting up with Big George's<br />
dynamite punch exposed Joe for the mortal he was. Cleve Williams could<br />
really bang, but not much else. In mid-career, he got shot by a Houston cop and<br />
lost one kidney. You saw Ali leave him in a heap. Any questions? Anyone who<br />
is not a pro boxer pretending to be a good fighter is a joke, not counting<br />
sincere amateurs on their way up. I get a kick out of people saying they go to<br />
their health gym to box. Even fitness gurus like Chuck Norris have not the<br />
foggiest notion of how to box or fight in the ring with boxing gloves. In a<br />
great quote, Joe Frazier once said, "It's a lot harder than it looks." Ernest<br />
Hemingway was an excellent athlete and not fat, but he was not a professional<br />
boxer. He was a jerk who mouthed off, too. <strong>The</strong> only truly good "civilian" boxer<br />
I ever saw was actor Ryan O'Neal, who could have succeeded as a pro. Otherwise,<br />
forget it. Inmy opinion, the gap between a health club "boxer" and a real pro is<br />
much wider than the gap between a Tuesday night softball player and a Major<br />
Leaguer. <strong>The</strong>re is absolutely no way to fake it in the ring or "get lucky"<br />
against a pro. Those are my opinions. |<br />
|8/28/03 10:16:27 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|Hey John<br />
G, I agree with you on Frazier-Holmes. <strong>The</strong> Joe Frazier of 1968-1971 would put<br />
too much pressure on Holmes. Holmes could not hit hard enough to keep Frazier<br />
off him. Joe would come in low bobbing and weaving, and constantly throwing<br />
punches on his way in: and just steamroll him after a great effort by Holmes.|<br />
|8/28/03 10:26:46 PM|steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Hey<br />
Roadschollarette,<strong>Jerry</strong> Schultz,and Tubby,thanks.I'ts good to have some fresh<br />
blood on this great site!Your posts are solid,and realistic.Keep them coming I<br />
wish I could type,spell,and express myself as well as you guys.I do know from<br />
personal experience,that trying to push a 200 lb.man who is in fight mode any<br />
where he doesn't want to be is very ,very,difficult.Based on what I knew back<br />
then ,Iwould have picked Thad Spencer over <strong>Quarry</strong>.Mac Foster over <strong>Quarry</strong> by a<br />
blowout!Ron Lyle by an early or middle round KO.NO DOUGHT IN MY expert opinion<br />
mind,Shavers over <strong>Quarry</strong> in two rounds!<strong>The</strong>se amazing quirks in <strong>Jerry</strong>'career are<br />
part of his unusual popularity and mystique.Whenever he climbed in the<br />
ring,even against Ali,Frazier,or maybe even against Foreman,there was always the<br />
what if factor. |<br />
|8/28/03 10:39:02 PM|Tubby Breslin|Fullerton, CA||bearstubastanchu||||10|Steve,<br />
you make a really good point. Most of us fans, even though we enjoy pure<br />
technique and fine boxing, still would prefer 9 (or 10) out of 10 times to see<br />
someone entering the ring with the intention and skills to knock the other guy<br />
cold. That was <strong>Jerry</strong> <strong>Quarry</strong> all the way. He had that chance in every fight, even<br />
the times he was outmatched. Even Godzilla would have had to respect that in<br />
<strong>Jerry</strong> -- the kid could hurt anybody. |<br />
|8/28/03 11:12:28 PM|steve |N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Hey Angelo, I don't<br />
know whoe's talents and skills your downgradin,Ali's or Fraziers'!Ali and<br />
Frazier rose to a boxing occasion in their first and third fights that no one<br />
will ever equal.Larry Holmes,on his best night , have lost to either of them on<br />
the nights of their 1st and 3rd fights1|<br />
|8/28/03 11:27:04 PM|Barry Hathaway|Joshua Tree,<br />
CA||DareDevil1990@aol.com||||10|Its really cool to check out this site, and see<br />
what my Grampa Jim, and Great Uncle <strong>Jerry</strong>, started. let's keep it up.|