January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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Perhaps he could take some punishment but he never fought back to win (and 'kick<br />
ass' as you would probably say it). Whenever Tyson got hurt, the fight soonafter<br />
ended. Angelo - you mention that modern fighters like Tyson don't fight a lot.<br />
Some of the old fighters didn't either. Between 1971 and 1976 Frazier had 12<br />
fights while Ali had 24 in that same period. And why was it that Frazier fought<br />
<strong>Jerry</strong> <strong>Quarry</strong> and Jimmy Ellis twice each, yet he never fought Norton, Lyle,<br />
Shavers, Patterson, Folley and Ernie Terrell. Was he ducking any of those guys ?<br />
Finally, in Joe Frazier's book he says this about <strong>Jerry</strong> <strong>Quarry</strong>, "He was a<br />
courageous fighter, and if he didn't cut so easy, he could've been a world<br />
champion."|<br />
|10/9/03 12:43:40 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Welcome<br />
Muffinman, great handle. When has Brother DKS appeared on this page of late? I<br />
always enjoyed his posts even if at times we didn't always agree or even get<br />
along (other times we did). I always respected his opinions. DKS did shake<br />
things up around here but at times this is needed around here. I hope DKS drops<br />
by here sometime. |<br />
|10/9/03 02:20:41 AM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|Paul-You' re right. We saw it<br />
last time in his loss against Lewis. I remember that at the beginninig of the<br />
fight I was thinking " Oh good ! We are gonna have an exciting fight ! ". At<br />
the end of the third round Tyson came back to the corner with a little injury.<br />
After this, Tyson completely disappeared from the ring ! At his peak,<br />
Tyson was a great or almost great fighter ! <strong>The</strong>re was a moment I believed Tyson<br />
was invincible ! He beat a lot of good fighters ( Berbick, Smith , Thomas,<br />
Tucker, Bruno, Stewart, Ruddock... A long list !), but I think his losses and<br />
mostly the way he lost, reduce a lot his greatness as a fighter. Anyway, he<br />
remembers probably the best heavyweight of the 80s. This is not a little<br />
achievement...|<br />
|10/9/03 08:17:46 AM|Sonia Hathaway (<strong>Quarry</strong>)|Joshua Tree,<br />
CA||Sonia81@aol.com||||10|Hey all its cool to read the posts, adding excitement<br />
to it. Keep it up Coo Coo, Kent, and all you others, as long as we keep it all<br />
good. Have a good one.|<br />
|10/9/03 10:38:57 AM|Massimo|Rome||5||||10|To Sonia <strong>Quarry</strong>-Sonia, I'm<br />
shocked !! <strong>The</strong> right way of writing ( or to write ? I try with of writing... It<br />
sounds better !) its cool is ( please, listen to me !) isIT'S COOL. Have you<br />
understood ? Learn English my friend ! You're lucky that I'm a kind and generous<br />
man and if you want a can help you with English. But I'm not going to travel to<br />
the USA ! You have to come here and you have to pay the travel )))) ( KooKoo<br />
taught me that, thanks KooKoo)|<br />
|10/9/03 11:13:41 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|It's<br />
interesting that three all time greats who fought in <strong>Jerry</strong> <strong>Quarry</strong>'s era,<br />
Foreman, Frazier and Ali, at one time or another, wrote or talked about how good<br />
<strong>Jerry</strong> <strong>Quarry</strong> was. <strong>The</strong>se guys didn't owe <strong>Jerry</strong> anything then or now, and I<br />
believe were offering unbiased opinions. I think after the second fight with<br />
<strong>Quarry</strong>, Ali had some good things to say about how <strong>Quarry</strong> wouldn't quit and just<br />
kept coming.I've always wondered about Frazier not fighting often---and not<br />
fighting all the top contenders.I can't imagine he ducked anyone.|<br />
|10/9/03 12:22:31 PM|Kent|La Habta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Angelo, I<br />
think a lot of fighters' decisions as to who they fight are the work of their<br />
managers and that figthters seldom intentially avoid other fighters. For<br />
example, George Foreman didn't fight <strong>Jerry</strong> because he wanted to take the bigger<br />
money fight with Ali, not because he didn't think he could beat <strong>Jerry</strong>. His<br />
managers thought <strong>Jerry</strong> represented at least some risk to the bigger money fight<br />
with Ali. I think they figured, why take a potentially tough fight, even one<br />
that George was likely to win, if they could get the Ali fight with no risk at<br />
all?Another example from way back is Jack Dempsey not fighting Harry<br />
Wills, the long time number one contender. Dempsey himself was said to want to<br />
fight any and all comers but his management reportedly paid Wills off to step