January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

after Zack Clayton counted 10. He went nuts claiming he missed the count.
Later Boxing Illustated magazine implied the Quarry quit because he couldn't put
Chuvalo away. That is the dumbest thing Bert Sugar ever said. He said
something about the draw with Tony Alongi--that Jerry complained about low blows
and at one point wanted to quit that fight also. I seem to rember Ring magazine
describing Chuvalo after the fight as a "mess" and "took quite a going-over even
as a winner". Any comments out there?|
|9/27/02 06:51:27 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Chuvalo was a
very tough guy and won fair and square. He did take a beating, but Jerry stayed
down too long. I don't know why. He certainly did not quit. Perhaps he was too
disoriented by the punch, the crowd, or whatever. Bert Sugar will say anything
just to get quoted. He thinks he is terribly clever and is his own greatest
fan.|
|9/27/02 09:36:54 AM|P. Drolet|Montreal||drolpaul@aol.com||||10|John, the first
Liston-Williams fight,held in Miami on April 15th, 1959, ended in the 3rd round.
Jerry's losses to Ellis and Chuvalo were the ones he most regretted. The
Ellis fight should have been postponed. Jerry was devastated by the loss to
Chuvalo. In the fight's immediate aftermath, Jerry's entourage claimed that
Clayton's count was quick. There was no malfeasance on Clayton's part, however;
Jerry rose just as Clayton had tolled ten. Like Cosell, Sugar has a
strain of bluster and self-promotion about him. I wouldn't give much weight to
remarks he may have made about Jerry looking to quit. I've seen a tape Sugar
narrated several years back that featured highlights of Jerry's career. After
his ill-advised last comeback against Cramner, Sugar remarked that it was tragic
to see what had become of a "once great fighter". Gone were the heady days when
he floored and bested his boyhood idol, Floyd Patterson, at 22; his pitched
battle against Frazier in 1969; the disappointments against Ali, and the nights
he soared against the likes of Lyle and Shavers. He was reduced now to fighting
some no-name pug in a Denver hotel for a thousand bucks. |
|9/27/02 12:11:20 PM|Kent Appel|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|As a
fan, the losses to Ellis and Chuvalo were the most frustrating. In hindsight we
know Jerry was injured before the Ellis fight. It is just that Jerry should
have been at least WBA champion, even if only briefly. I wish Ellis had given
him a rematch instead of Ellis fighting Patterson. Jerry would have won the
rematch. As far as Chuvalo goes, Jerry was put down with a good punch but he
didn't appear too badly hurt, Jerry somehow forgot he had jumped up at about the
count of two and when he kneeled down, he thought he was taking the eight count.
It was a mental lapse on his part, he simply lost track of the count. Jerry
Quarry never, ever quit in a fight. |
|9/27/02 01:21:00 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|OKAY: i happen to have both press
clippings OF 2 N.Y. papers on they ALONGI,BOUT IN OLD MSG.I was proud of Jerry
in this one, and i will post it SUNDAY, get your own opinion.Is all I am going
to say, new york times, AS FAR AS CHUVALO, Only reasontly put it on Jerry's
record as a loss!!!|
|9/27/02 01:47:42 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|"californian Drops opponent in rough bout
at Garden"-Jerry Quarry of Los Angeles,tough resilent and dogged,fought to a 10round
draw with they more experienced Tony Alongi,and emerged as they most
intersesting heavyweight of Madison Square Gardens dozen last night.Pressing his
attack on the bigger man,Quarry managed to get underneath Alongi's good left
jab,and knock him down in the 7th with a left hook to the face,the crowd seemed
ok with they verdict. And they really didn't seem to consider Alongi's long and
vicious thumb. His three solid left hooks to Quarry's groin,and his quick elbows
in the clinches,Quarry a 20 yr old 6-footer,4 inches shorter, 7 years
younger,and about 15 pounds lighter,tried not to consider them either,but his
legs slowed in the later rounds due to the low drubbing.Referee Mercante(one of