January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

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|11/28/03 11:33:50 PM|Evan B|Sydney||evanb46@hotmail.com||||10|Gerry Schultz
makes a good point, although not the one about Cooney and Morrison being good
fighters. To reach the limelight, be ranked in the top 20 or 50 or 100, to go in
against name fighters, or to fight in the major venues is a tremendous
accomplishment most of us take for granted. (The exception is when promoters buy
a kid into the Top Ten just to hype him for a fight.) These achievements are
equivalent to making the NBA, NFL or major league baseball. So even someone like
George Chuvalo, Ron Lyle, Buster Mathis and others we see as mediocre and
undistinguished were actually in the 97th or 98th percentile, better than almost
all other pros. From 98th to 99th, though -- that is, from Chuvalo or Wepner
level to Ali or Frazier level -- is a HUGE JUMP. I have a friend in Jersey
who calls anyone who loses a fight "a bum". This is grossly unfair to anyone
with the stones to climb inside the ring and fight. I don't care if it's a Boys
Club Fight Night in La Habra (agree, Kent?) or a PAL smoker in Brooklyn, nobody
who fights is a bum. I was hoping more people would comment on Barrera, with
the device in his brain to fix the aneurysm. Someone said nobody cared about
that until he started losing. Bullshit. I don't care if he ran his record to 50-
0-0 against ranked fighters -- that kind of reckless disregard for a human life
is disgusting. And please, no jive about how a man's got to do what a man's got
to do. At the very least, when a man gotta be that stupid, taxpayers have to
pick up his ER expenses and the cost of his MRIs, CTs, and extended ICU costs
before he crumps -- all so he could show the world what a tough monkey he was.
Even Koo Koo would agree with that, if we could get him stabilized on his
medications and out of his restraints. |
|11/29/03 12:19:42 AM|Pete|Cleveland||pco@hotmail.com||||10|" I think Jerry
would have been in better shape to continue than George would have been, but
that isn't the point, particularly when a fighter might be strategically staying
down till eight or nine, in a screaming arena." (QUOTE)George really
didn't win many big fights. He ko'd Doug Jones, He ko'd Jerry Quarry, he ko'd
Manuel Ramos and he decisioned Cleveland Williams. But George, like Jerry, had a
big heart and was and still is held in high esteem by most Canadian fight fans.
I liked his fight with Frazier. Frazier was up and coming at the time and just
demolished poor George's eye socket. It didn't last long, but it was a great
display of pugilism. When the Foreman/Chuvalo fight was stopped, George turned
to the ref and said, " What are you, nuts???" I think that George was quite
proud of his showing against Jerry and later attended a dinner in Jerry's honor,
when he was diagnosed with his condition. George has experienced a lot of family
tragedy and today he hosts a Classic Boxing television series in Toronto and
does a lot of charitable work where educating young people of the dangers of
drug abuse is concerned. |
|11/29/03 12:46:49 AM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|Hi Evan,
I agree with you whole heartedly on Barrera, and Cooney. First Barrera.
I spoke about this on an earlier post. I was not aware of Barrera's
medical condition until you brought it up (reason being I don't follow boxing to
closely anymore). Imagine, a guy has a problem with his brain. So in order to
help him they put a implant in his brain. Good so far. They determine that the
damage done to his brain, cause UKNOWN (maybe from sleeping on a hard pillow);
is undone. Bravo, and now he is allowed to go into a ring and get hit in the
head again. This sounds like a torture only Saddam Hussein could think
of.I never regarded Cooney as a good fighter. And God forbid, I would
never mention him in the same breathe as Jerry Quarry. The reason I regard
Cooney as your average run of the mill fighter is simple. Cooney never won a
fight that went beyond 8 rounds. He never got up off the canvass to win a fight
after being knocked down. All good fighter's never mind great fighter's have
done this at some point in their careers. I will give Cooney's management
accolades for picking the right "fights" for him, and moving an average fighter