January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

here to duke politics with anyone.I came here as a Quarry fan, boxing fan
and sports fan, and it's been good to chat with like-minded people.I don't
begrudge anyone's politics. Most people believe something, and there are two
major political parties in America to choose from, right or wrong.It's not
that you disagree with someone on this very personal item, it's how you do it.
That's where guys have flunked here ....Massimo, still carrying the torch
for Primo!How would Carnera have fared against Gerry Cooney, I wonder. Both
6'6, both can box and move a little. Hmm ...Kent, be glad you can exercise.
I'm pretty active, but have been sidelined by a bad Achilles tendon the last six
weeks. Man, I get restless.Thanks. |
|8/24/05 04:53:35 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Pete - I thought we'd put all this
behind us, but you say I was the only name caller. I've been called plenty of
names by Forest. For example, on 07/01/05, in just one post, he called me "a
joke", "a blowhard", "a jerk", and "boring and rude." He accused Angelo and me
of being "very loose with details" and Angelo of making "ridiculous posts". The
name calling was NOT one way. We were also numerously told, quite insultingly,
that we didn't know anything about boxing (as if he was the font of all boxing
knowledge and wisdom). His name calling went further. Forest called
Patterson "without doubt the biggest cheese champion of all time", a fighter who
"fought bums and amateurs" and who "avoided every legitimate contender." He
said that Cooney is "running a hustle" with his charities (even though Larry
Holmes is involved) and, of course, the comments about Ali's health. That was
the stuff that upset me. I responded in kind, wrongly, at times, I
confess.Regards Ali, a lot of the stuff written defending him was in
response to stuff written attacking him. It's also hard not mentioning Ali when
he was the most dominant fighter of the era of Jerry Quarry,the hero of this
site.Angelo - I have the Ali book you speak of. But you really have to
get Hauser's book on Ali. It is the best.Anyway, Pete, as far as I'm
concerned the name calling is passe, but, given you said that I was the only
name caller, I had to respond. Thanks.|
|8/24/05 04:58:36 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Gerry......about the political stuff.
You were the guy who introduced most of those conversations. It wasn't us, as
you accuse. We'd be talking about boxing and you'd come in from left field
rallying on about the Iraq War instead of the Thrilla in Manilla or the Rumble
in the Jungle. Be fair about that. Most of the time you started the political
stuff. Now let's forget about it. |
|8/24/05 05:54:17 PM|Howard C.|Louisville||howardc@louisville||||10|Yeah, better
to put the insults aside. Some of them were funny and I got called a pathetic
chump, sham and a fraud, a kool aid drinker. Some wisecracks were misguided and
silly like the represed homosexual and alcoholic insults should never have been
said. Gerry even questioned whether Steve was really a Vietnam vet. I thought
Steve would expload when that was said and he didn't to his credit.Some of you
guys were talking trivia. Heres one. When was the first time that Ali fought a
guy younger than himself?|
|8/24/05 06:05:58 PM|Pete|Cleveland||N/A||||10|Noam, I was sticking up for you.
I said the you cannot soley be the blame for people leaving this
site.Howard C not counting Ali's younger brother. The answer would be
Jerry Quarry|
|8/24/05 07:03:24 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Thanks, Pete. I shouldn't have said
some of the things I said, particularly to Kent, but that's in the past, and I'm
glad he's back. Hopefully, Steve won't be far behind him. You beat me to the
punch with the Jerry Quarry answer to the trivia question.|
|8/24/05 08:15:31 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|As far as
Gerry Cooney doing something unethical regarding his charity, I don't believe it
is the case. There are some in the helping end of things in the boxing
community that don't like it that he takes a fairly high salary for himself but
I can't really say he is doing anything wrong. A lot of people in the charity