January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

it out by close decision over Richard Perry. It was nice to see that Brenda and
Sonia were looking well (they worked Eric's corner)but I didn't get a chance to
get back stage to say hello to everybody as I was taking notes for an article
about the event that I am doing for an Native American news site that is at the
following address, www.pechanga.net. My report will probably be up on that site
on Tuesday under the Native News section. Sorry Eric, I can only give you one
line as there were 13 other fights. |
|10/27/02 09:52:24 PM|Sonia Hathaway (Quarry)|Joshua Tree,
CA||Sonia81@aol.com||||10|Thanks Kent, it was awesome to be there with my
brother Eric, to support him. I will say though I was a bit nervous, not that I
was afraid he'd lose but I goof up or something, but it was all well worth it.
I am proud of my brother, cause not matter what "he didn't quit" so as the
saying goes "THERE'S NO QUIT IN A QUARRY". Richard's a nice guy also. Dad,
would've been proud, but then again he always was.|
|10/28/02 07:07:40 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|ON QUARRY VS.
COONEY: Are you guys kidding? Jerry was a REAL fighter not some built up phoney.
Spinks and Foreman revealed Cooney for what he was. Cooney had a fine left hook
-- and NOTHING else. Jerry would have KO'd him in four or five. Granted, Cooney
looked good in his loosing effort againt Holmes, but if Holmes at not been so
overly careful, he could have ended it in the second round -- Jerry would have.
Don't get me wrong, I picked Foreman over Jerry, but there is NO COMPARISON
between Cooney and Quarry. |
|10/28/02 01:44:49 PM|Joe Krause|Chicago||sa....||||10|Quarry would be a
terrible match-up for Cooney. Cooney would hit Jerry and Jerry would smile a
little and Cooney would say oh .... and crumble shortly thereafter. I say
Quarry in about 5 thinking that Jerry would play with him a couple rounds.
Cooney was not a bad fighter, but this isn't the right match-up for him at all!|
|10/30/02 12:55:27 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Steve, I also
have Ken Norton's book and in it, he never says Jerry was a racist. He may have
been qouted saying this in another source, but in his book, while he does say
that he and Jerry did not like each other, he never brings up the race issue
regarding Jerry. In fact, he praises Jerry for being a very game fighter and
for fighting his heart out until their fight was stopped. Norton also says that
all of his bad feelings for Jerry went away after he and Jerry hugged after the
fight. |
|10/30/02 11:32:37 AM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||ronnyrains@yahoo.com||||10|I agree with Kent,Norton and Jerry had
some issues,i think they 1969-1970 QUARRY COULD'VE HANDLED THEM DIFFERANTLY,
also heard Jerry kayoed Norton in training,I wished Bonavena would have went
ahead with his bout with Norton,QUARRY was a replacement,if you can fathom that,
and only had a few weeks of training,regarless, man i wished that would have
been JQ's last and final bout,no more sparring or nothing,i also heard they used
to give JERRY and BOBBY THE KEYS TO stronbow stadium,In Bakersfield and they
hammered on each other sparring thru out BOBBY's career,i'm sure that never
helped Jerry's eventual condition!! Does anyone have any old BOXING
ILLUSTRATED'S from 1965-75??|
|10/30/02 08:18:50 PM|Bob Bumbera|NC||renfbera@aol.com||||10|I'd have to go with
Jerry over Cooney. Gerry never impressed me at all even in the Holmes fight.
As mentioned before, Larry could have taken him out earlier if he turned up the
pressure. Jerry was a far better boxer than Cooney and would have hammered him.
And Big George would have batterd Jerry. Jerry was faster and would have hurt
George but I don't think Jerry could have put a series of hard combinations
together to put George away. Foreman was just too strong and he could take one
hell of a wallop. On another topic, if Roy Jones fights Ruiz, who do you think
will win. I know Jones could beat Jirov and don't know why he won't fight
him...Money? Anyway, I think Jones has a good shot vs Ruiz. What do you think