January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

epresentative about that bill. I'll encourage friends to do so too, even ones
who aren't boxing fans, and haven't even heard of it!|
|9/4/03 12:06:42 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|RON LYLE, was truly a great fighter,Not
too many can come to the pro's as a 31 year old rookie,and achieve what he
did,can you think of anyone sands FOREMAN and HOLMES?? HE could take a
tremendous punch,Had a great wallop,fearless,and had alotta heart.Instead of
trying to do a "SMART FIGHT" and not fall for Ali's tactics,probably should have
just come out blasting! CHICKIE FERRARA trained him to set Foreman up with Lead
rights, Nearly won him the match,What if there age's had been reversed?? Ron
Lyle was the 8th best fighter of the 70's, his comeback fight vs Shavers was
phoenominal, Besides Cooney he'd never been hurt that bad,LYLE never quit or
played dead for the $$|
|9/4/03 01:23:08 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||Joekevin@cs.com||||10|Hey John
G., very well put. Regarding Sandy Saddler, in the early eighties I used to see
Sandy pretty regularly. He worked at the the United Maritime Hall on 14th
St.and 8th Ave. I worked nearby so I saw him often, and he was fine. Sandy
lived in Harlem, and sometime in the late eighties he was robbed and mugged in
the hallway of his building. He was bashed over the head with a iron pipe, and
sufferred serious physical and was in the hospital for a prolonged period as a
result of the injury. He was never the same afterwards.Tubby, I don't
understand your logic. As I previously mentioned I saw and spoke to Archie
Moore in depth and he was fine and rational. But yet you take the testimony
(was he under oath?) of an ex-boxer, who if we use your logic has at least 60
years of brain damage, and is at least 80 years old (he boxed Joe Louis in
1943). Tubby, please explain to me someone as educated and skilled as you are in
the field of health can be a boxing buff. It would seem to me someone as
dedicated as you to human science would be abhor boxing. |
|9/4/03 11:38:41 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|TUBBY: Please
understand where we are coming from. Forest Ward said that he had chance to
observe Archie Moore for a full weekend and found him to be perfectly sound. As
far as I know, you never met Archie, but you know he died very punchy. So we are
supposed to take the word of someone who never met him over someone was with him
for a full weekend. Does that make sense to you? As far as I know, Forrest is
not a doctor or a speech pathologist but he is blessed with common sense and
sound judgement and he is certainly capable of evaluating if another person is
as obviously punchy as your friend claims Archie was. |
|9/4/03 04:59:17 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|As a long
time boxing fan, I have admiration and respect for the fighters themselves---and
of course, concern for their well-being and long term health. I love the sport,
but at the same time, find myself very upset when seeing guys who suffer brain
damage or death from a particular fight---or long term cognitive and motor
skills issues like Jerry Quarry and Ali. My conclusion is not to ban boxing,
but to make it safer. No, not to make it safer to the point of boredom, but to
enact common sense practices to protect fighters to the best of our ability,
while still keeping the sport exciting, competitive and hard hitting.It's
why I'm interested in what the Quarry Foundation is working on. But one thing
we all must realize is that the sport will always be dangerous. Simply, taking
punches to the head and body can and will cause damage---and you can't escape
it. Other pastimes and sports have many more injuries and deaths each year than
boxing does. It's true that the INTENT in boxing is to score more points or
knock out the opponent by hurting them---but I challange anyone to tell me that
350 pound guys like Warren Sapp, who run as fast as running backs used to,
aren't trying to "KO" offensive players in a football game. Likewise, jumping
out of an airplane or driving a car at 200 miles per hour, while trying to work
your way through 30 other cars, is a recipe for injury or death. People in many
walks of life make their living or spend their leisure time taking risks with