January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

pay 40 or 50 dollars to watch a 40 year old guy whose best years were in the
1980's? Is it people who want to see him get trounced? |
|4/11/05 04:08:47 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Steve, The
Retired Boxers Foundation does all that it can to help fighters who need help
after they retire. Even great fighters can often be forgotten when they are no
longer of use to the promoters and the fans. Sure there is a lot of work to do
but Alex Ramos' group, does all that it can help fighters in the mean time and
it is up to the rest of us to try and get legislation passed for the improvement
of boxing. TJQF, with a lot of help from George Otto, has and will continue to
press for better governing in the sport.RBF (retired boxers foundaton)
still is needed to help the fighters and likely still will be needed even if
legislation is passed for things like a national commision.I hope people
visit RBF's site and at least read Alex "The Bomber" Ramos' story. He is
absolutely an extraorinary man and he has my full support in any way I can help
him and his group and their cause.A national commision would go a long
way to make licensing requirements strickter and as Mr. Jimmy here at TJQF
supported and I continue to support, is a rule that fighters should have to pass
a yearly brain scan exam and if any sign of permanent damage is found, then that
fighter would no longer be allowed to get a license to box regardless if the
fighter showed no sympthoms. Jerry Quarry actually took a brain scan in
1983 and he showed signs of damage, even if physical signs were not visible, but
he was still granted a license to fight twice that year. Shame to those
who that let it happen in Colorado in 1992, he was allowed to fight there and I
believe this was the straw that broke the camel's back to cause his downward
slide in just a few years later.If Jerry would have been denied a
license to fight anywhere when he first showed brain damage in 1983, then I
believe he would still be with us today.|
|4/11/05 06:36:42 PM|Fan|USA||n/a||||10| Re: assistance for former fighters,
you can also check out Gerry Cooney's FIST (Fighters' Initiative for Support and
Training)at www.helpboxers.org. It's a pretty interesting site, with a number
of photos, including Gerry and his present day pal Larry Holmes. Nice to see
them working together for a good cause.|
|4/12/05 08:56:33 AM|Forest Ward|NYC||raymccormack2003@yahoo.com||||10|Fan, you
are my man, I think you know that by now. But I got some bad news. Cooney's
program FIST is basically a vehicle to promote and enrich Gerry Cooney. Most non
profit organizations (at least the legitimate ones) are very willing to open
their books and let the public see where the money is going. This is especially
important when looking at the nonprofit's ratio of expenses vs. donations to
charity. Cooney's organization is very secretive about this. I remember learning
Fist's ratio for a given year and it was something like 85% for expenses and 15%
for charity. That is pathetic! Cooney's wife is on the payroll for FIST and is
getting big bucks, certainly a lot more that she would in the real world, and
for a lot less work.Cooney uses FIST to promote himself. If you ask
Gerry Cooney to appear at an event he charges for his appearance. No problem
with that, right? Wrong! The public assumes Cooney's appearance is gratis, or
that any fee he receives goes to FIST. It doesn't, any fee he gets goes to Gerry
Cooney.Now, I know some people on this site will say to me, where is
your proof? Well, it is not up to me to prove it. It is up to Cooney to open up
his books and disprove what I and other are saying. How did I learn this? I
learned about this at RING 8 in NYC from someone who knows the whole story, and
told this to me off the record. RING 8 is an organization that actully helps
down and out fighters. They recently had Kid Gavilans body removed from a
basically unmarked grave to a beautiful grave sight, at considerable expense.
Cooney is running a hustle.|
|4/13/05 12:43:29 AM|Ed|Cicero N Y||mooseygoop@aol.com||||10|Forest,Good
points u bring up about fake charities and ripping people off..its especially
galling when done by a celebrity who people tend to trust. Lets hope if what u