January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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probably would have beaten Ellis on most occasions. I too agree that <strong>Jerry</strong><br />
wasn't better than Holmes and Frazier but I do think as I have stated before,<br />
that prime against prime he would have had a very good chance of beating Norton.<br />
Ring Magazine in 1998 rated <strong>Jerry</strong> the 27th best heavyweight of all time. That<br />
is about right. |<br />
|5/18/02 07:44:52 PM|steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|i'm having trouble<br />
with the idea of a fighter preparing for a title fight,having a serious back<br />
injury,and his trainers and manager never picking up on it!i seem to remember<br />
ali postponing a title fight for a hernia.just for fun , transpose holmes back<br />
ten years,then match him against late sixties and early seventies<br />
heavywieghts.my point being in all this conjecture,that,given the superior<br />
competion of the time,and perhaps a better management team,quarry could have<br />
very easily rated above both ellis and holmes,and again , norton,who seemed to<br />
both fear and resent quarry, and was managed well enough to wait till jerry was<br />
used up before fighting him.|<br />
|5/18/02 08:30:14 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Steve, I am<br />
not sure why <strong>Jerry</strong>'s management, at the time his father Jack <strong>Quarry</strong> and Johnny<br />
Flores, didn't listen to <strong>Jerry</strong> when he complained about being in pain. James<br />
and Mike <strong>Quarry</strong> have both said their brother fought Ellis with a back injury and<br />
James told me <strong>Jerry</strong> was put into a body cast not long after the fight. <strong>Jerry</strong> is<br />
rated above Jimmy Ellis in most all time rankings and rightly so, as <strong>Jerry</strong><br />
overall was the better fighter. That is not to take anything away from Ellis,<br />
who was a fine fighter in his own right. I find myself in a rare instance when<br />
I appear to not be on <strong>Jerry</strong>'s side when it comes to saying Larry Holmes was the<br />
better fighter. I am one of <strong>Jerry</strong>'s biggest fans and of course I think the<br />
world of the <strong>Quarry</strong> family, Holmes was a master boxer, a top ten all time great<br />
who would be a champion in just about any era. Like I said, the ring magazine<br />
rankings of the all time greatest heavyweights was fair in regards to placing<br />
<strong>Jerry</strong> at number 27 in their list of the top fifty of all time. I think he is<br />
about number 20 to 25 but number 27 is objective. |<br />
|5/18/02 09:06:37 PM|steve|nj||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|holmes'difficulty with<br />
norton,weaver,his lack of competion in his era,make me think he was an<br />
overexalted copy of ali.how would he have fared against joe frazier,george<br />
foreman,a prime ken norton,or even , yes , a prime quarry?for all his boxing<br />
skills,he seemed to turn some fights into wars.shavers,cooney. |<br />
|5/19/02 05:12:01 AM|mark |southsea||mark.burgess7@ntlworld.com||||10|I have<br />
just read an article from the philadelphia weekly dated 26 dec 2001 about the<br />
sad life of jimmy young who has been battling drug addiction and apparently<br />
suffering from dementia pugilistica, the very same condition in which jerry<br />
quarry suffered from. Young like quarry did not duck<br />
anybody,shavers,norton,ali,foreman,cooney,lyle,dokes,page, to name a few but now<br />
as he fights his biggest battle i hope and pray there is some light at the end<br />
of the tunnel! I personally think young was one of best<br />
heavyweights there has been,i think wins over lyle,foreman plus very<br />
controversial losses to ali & norton and a debatable draw with shavers confirm<br />
this.I also think if young kept his weight and conditioning together<br />
particularly after the norton fight he could of been world champ(well WBA champ<br />
young i dont think would have beaten holmes for the WBC title).|<br />
|5/19/02 04:19:43 PM|Daniel|San Francisco,Ca.||CORERMAN@AOL.COM||||8|<strong>Quarry</strong> was<br />
a unpredictable fighter who could have beaten Foreman if Foreman had analyzed<br />
<strong>Quarry</strong> from his fights with Ellis,Chuvalo,Ali and Frazier.You never knew what<br />
mind set <strong>Quarry</strong> had going into a fight ala Spencer,Mathis, Foster, Shavers and<br />
Lyle. I think <strong>Quarry</strong> would be up for Foreman circa 1971-early 1974.|<br />
|5/20/02 09:26:04 AM|Gerry Schultz|ohio||jgschultz@firstam.com||||9|To respond<br />
to Evren, I beleive having the abilty to defeat someone, and being a better<br />
overall fighter than someone are not the same thing. <strong>Quarry</strong>, in my opinion was<br />
clearly a better boxer than Frazier, and clearly had the edge after Round 2 in
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