January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

of the American Association for the Improvement of Boxing and TJQF, I have
written and mailed four letters to many individuals expressing support for the
passage of Senate Bill 275, The Professional Boxing Amendments Act of 2003. If
passed and implemented, this bill would establish a federal boxing commission--a
badly needed organization. Boxing needs this ---especially to protect the
fighters. Please email your U.S. Senators to express your support for it.
Thanks|
|7/20/03 08:22:09 PM|Dan Cunningham|San
Francisco||DGCSOCCER@AOL.COM||||10|Concerning carrying boxers photos in wallets:
First:I would never carry a photo of any fighter in my wallet because boxing is
what they do as a living and that does not make them better than the common man
outside of the ropes (although I would have to say that as a lot, boxers are a
lot more spiritual than other athletes). Secondly, John Gerard:Are you for real
or are you kidding me about your analogies of Cooney in the Foreman fight? You
could tell that much in one round? Guess what? it doesn't stand up! Cooney threw
the big left and hurt George in the first round. Nothing new! If anything Cooney
of the late 70's early 80's would have jumped all over George. Is that what you
mean by Cooney being more tecnical in this fight? Not finishing his man when he
had him in deep dog doo? Team Cooney should have had some code word or message
to Cooney to let him know that George was ready to go instead of waiting to get
out the info at the end of the round. I guess Cooney forgot to be tecnically
sound from Clancy in the 2nd rnd when he got ko'd! Even though it is common
knowledge from Clancy himself that Cooney's strategy was that he was going to
throw the big left on George early,fast and often. Cooney chose to fight
tactically when he should have fought his fight and followed up on his left
hook! That was the difference in this fight! That was Cooneys "tactic", not
Clancy's!|
|7/21/03 08:59:10 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Dan, while I
never have carried a picture of an althlete in my wallet I understand wanting to
have a hero. We are in a different era now where all of the faults of a
performer are pointed out. Say for example,if basketball star Kobie Bryant is
proven inocent of his sexual assault charges, the media will still keep
reporting how he cheated on his wife. Years ago, this sort of thing would not
have been reported, assuming he is not proven guilty. When I was a
small boy, my heros were baseball players Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, I know
now that Mantle was a real playboy drunk who had affairs with women often. As a
boy, I would not have wanted to know about this as I looked up to him. Mantle
was larger than life to me and there was nothing wrong with this kind of
innocence. Now the innocence is gone and I don't know if that is good or bad,
it was just different.Another example is recently President Bill Clinton
was considered a piece of crap for having well publicised affairs while in the
past, President John F. Kennedy did the same thing but Kennedy was looked up to
because the press didn't report his shortcomings.One of things about
Jerry Quarry that makes it easy to look up to him is he was real down to earth
and he never acted like he was above his fans.|
|7/21/03 01:04:58 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|I would hardly say "BIG GEORGE" WAS READY
TO "GO" VS COONEY in that first round,I'm not very sure Cooney would have beaten
Foreman in any era,Foreman nearly decapitated the man!Foreman was suffering more
from exhaustion, rather than Muhammad Ali's punches in Zaire, other than that
the man's never been kayoed,Just watch his Lyle fight,Foreman could have laid
down and played dead at anytime of that bout,and got more money for a
rematch!!Man did he take some power shots!Dan Cunningham one thing you really
impress me with, is you do stick by your fighter,something i've had to do to
destractors,concerning a man nicknamed "the Bellflower Bomber!"|
|7/21/03 01:11:34 PM|R. U. Kidding|Never Never Land||Get Real.com||||10|Mr.
Cunningham do you ever run out of excuses for Gerri Cooney. Once you offered