January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

have been penalized late in the fight. Still, I have no idea how Byrd got a
judge to call it for him basically 9 rounds to 3. Remember Holyfield-Lewis 1,
how one judge gave it for EH 10-5? One judge gave it to Ellis over Quarry 10-5,
as I recall. Again, this really hurts boxing's credibility. A standardized
format needs to be established for judging fights, these guys need to pass a
course. Ali-Tyson would be a great match, but I think Ali's movement, reach, jab
would prevail, maybe even for a late-round KO. At least someone else gives Tyson
his props. Koo Koo, it isn't a yesterday thing, it's a talent thing, most
heavies today don't have much. They think boxing skills are incidental if they
can weigh 250 and bench 300, this is stupid. Jimmy Thunder looked like a Greek
God, couldn't break the top Ten. Look what endless hours in the gym and in
tutelage did for the 6-0 195 lbs. Quarry , who dropped much bigger, stronger
guys throughout his career. You can't buy talent at at a pharmacy, it doesn't
come in a bottle to wash down five cheesesburgers with. This why the late 60's -
early 70's stands up and always will. People still buy Beatles records for the
same reason.|
|9/24/03 11:23:45 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||8|dear gary thats
nice of you to think that way about jerry, yes he did because of his talent beat
and take down big me, but these days these guys would be too big. we are not
talking a little bigger , were talking a lot bigger. if jerry quarry were 6.5
230 he would be heavyweight champion today, but otherwise impossible!
sorrycoo coo|
|9/25/03 03:21:04 AM|Massimo|Rome||u||||10|Foreman' s reign was brief just
because he met one of the most skillful fighters of all time:Ali'. I think after
the Ali' fight he wasn't mentally the same ( Young, Lyle). If he never met Ali',
he'd retired undefeated and he rankedas the greatest fighter of all time !
He had the "match point" against Ali' to be the greatest, but Ali' canceled it.
Tyson never came close to have "the all time match point".2)I saw the Lewis-
Holyfield 1. I think that the draw wasn't a scandal. I had Lewis ahead of 1 or 2
points, even if I saw that fight just once.3)KooKooWhat do you think of
the Quarry-Grant matchup ? I think this matchup proves that being huge is not
enough ( maybe being huge like Calvin Lane yes, but I'm talking about human
beings...). You have to be huge and skillful at the same time. Lewis is big and
skillful !4) About the Ali'-Tyson matchup I have a theory:I think that
the (19-21 )years old Tyson probably would have beaten the (19-21)years old
Ali'. But Tyson would never have beaten the Ali' of Thrilla,the Ali' of Kinshasa
and the Ali' that beat Cleveland Williams. Best night against best night ,Ali'
is the winner...|
|9/25/03 06:40:09 AM|.|.||.||||10|Earnie Shavers KO'd Jimmy Young in the third
round of their first match in 1973, not in the first round as is often recorded.
Despite much searching, no footage of that fight has ever appeared. Even the
promoter of that fight in Philly was approached and he confirmed that the match
was not filmed. In part, this may be because Earnie didn't really become famous
until he KO'd Jimmy Ellis later that same year and Young's highlight would come
in 1976 when fought Ali. No one seems to know if the Shavers-Young rematch in
1974 was filmed. That fight was scored a draw. It is very odd that no footage of
two such important fights has ever surfaced.|
|9/25/03 09:33:22 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|Earnie himself believes the Young
fight was two rounds. Where did you get that info that the fight was three
rounds...who are you?|
|9/25/03 10:35:34
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Clay never faced
anything like Frazier. Actually, Clay rarely faced anything like he did in his
second career. The first time around, he could float like a butterfly around
confused punching bags, who lumbered around the ring like Frankestein monsters,
throwing slow, roundhouse punches. I don’t really understand why any of those
opponents of his then even wasted their time jumping rope or hitting the speed