January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Boxing and have an interest that way? Explain yourself!|
|1/29/03 03:05:05 PM|Paul|Sydney, Australia||PlMls4@aol.com.au||||10|Historians
can't see the forest for the trees ! |
|1/29/03 05:52:02 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Forest, you
make it sound like we support men beating up their wifes. This couldn't be
further from the truth! Again, I wasn't aware that Bowe beat his wife and also
even if I did know this, by saying I have concern for what has happened to him
is not the same thing as supporting what he did. Of course I feel for the
victims of spousal abuse. Forest you seem to pick and choose what to respond
to. Once more, why pick on boxers only when other people, even so called
professional white collar men, such as doctors and lawyers also beat up their
wifes. Everything I have ever seen on the subject shows that the abuse knows no
racial, social economic, or other boundaries. Anyway, I am glad Forest comes
here and shakes things up as things have been getting a little dull around here.
SURE WISH MR. JIMMY WAS HERE TO GIVE HIS INPUT. HE IS SORELY MISSED!|
|1/29/03 08:07:51 PM|Gerry Schultz|Ohio||jerkim11@msn.com||||10|I just wanted to
say first, I really like the look of the site now, really good job... On Riddick
Bowe, it's easy to jeer the guy for the choices he made after becoming champ, I
especially enjoyed his very short stint in the Marines. But there is more at
work here, and I don't find much humor in it. Bowe is like alot of athletes,
particularly black athletes, who see themselves pretty one-dimensionally. They
find a talent very young in life and build themselves and their identity around
it. Once they get the holy grail in their chosen sport, their frontier ends.
Self-parody soon follows. The money they've earned slips away, unless they have
the benefit of college education or business acumen, a lot of great athletes are
little else than that. Micheal Dokes did the same thing Bowe has done. Promising
stars like Jimmy Young, Greg Page, Duane Bobick, all fell far from their path.
Remember Aaron Pryor? What Bowe is experiencing is not much different than
O.J.Simpson, that huge sense of loss that follows fame when it leaves, pretty
bleak stuff. It's why Ali fought so long, and maybe Jerry as well. Gerry Cooney
has an amazing site dedicated to returning former fighters to mainstream real-
world work activities. It's sounds bizarre at first, but there are plenty of
wandering souls out there, former stars like Bowe who don't know what is left to
pursue. There's nothing funny about that, and he has my sympathies.|
|1/29/03 09:06:09 PM|steve|nj||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|I've just finished
reading the the posts in the archives.As you say,Kent,what a hoot!I've got to
give you and Evren credit for your single mindedness in trying to get your point
across in the face of personal attacks from some of the idiots who used to post
here.I personally feel that anyone who has a legimate point,or even an argument
to make,has a right to post his views on this website.However,let me qualify
that by writing that anyone should express their opinion without fear of being
ridiculed or insulted.After all,I would assume that anyone who is attracted to
this site would have an interest in heavyweight boxers from the sixties to
today.Otherwise,why bother posting on yhis site? this site's primary function is
trying to bring Pugulistical Dementia to the attention of the greater public and
the politicians who are empowered to make changes.It's also here for boxing
historians.I was frustated by some of the more exotic characters in the archives
and their mostly worthless,idiotic posts.They set a tone of distinct hostility
towards anyone who dared to disagree with their seemingly "written-in-stone"
views and opinions.One of the big attractions of this site is that everyone
respects all opinions.I love the sport of boxing.I'm not here to make moral
judgements on any anyone.Actually,I think if Jerry had a drinking or drug
problem and he overcame it,it would have made his life even more
fasciniting!It's too easy to get nasty over an anonamous web site!I for one
don't want to have to read posts from serious people who are apoligizing to the
troublemakers for daring to have a conflicting view.What's next,we'll start
exchanging"M----- F---er's with some angry teenage boys?|