January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

FRAZIER JERRY SOMEHOW APPEARED WEAK, UNLIKE THE FIRST FIGHT, WHERE AT LEAST HE
GOT IN SOME GOOD PUNCHES. KOO KOO|
|11/23/03 02:20:01 AM|Evan B|Sydney||evanb46@juno.com||||10|Forest, I feel as
you do about despising boxing more and more these days. A couple of weeks ago, I
read that a kid in the States or Mexico named Antonio Barrera had a medical
device implanted in his brain to fix an aneurysm. He has been fighting anyway,
and had a fight last week where I guess he was beaten pretty badly. MADNESS!
This is a question we might discuss: SHOULD WE CONTROL SUCH SITUATIONS WITH
LAWS OR SHOULD WE ALLOW AN INDIVIDUAL TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTS, INCLUDING EXPOSE
HIMSELF TO GRAVE DANGER? I vote for the laws and control. Sometimes we need to
protect people from themselves. Probably lots of young boxers are so pumped full
of their own testosterone and dreams of glory that they cannot make adequate
decisions. We might also say that when they eventually get hurt badly, usually
they receive treatment and care from public agencies and institutions, which
means the rest of the taxpayers pay for it. That's money that could be used on
much worthier causes such as education.What do you folks think? Barrera
isn't the only one to do things like this, either. I'll bet the Quarrys wish
someone had persuaded Jerry to stop fighting way earlier than he did. |
|11/23/03 02:22:48 AM|Evan B|Sydney||evanb46@juno.com||||10|I forgot to say: see
http://www.maxboxing.com/Kim/kim110102.asp, "Augie Sanchez and the Right to
Fight" for arguments in favor of letting anyone who wants to fight. I disagree.
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|11/23/03 06:46:53 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|Welcome back Forest. Good to see you
here again. You speak your mind and you are honest in what you say. I admire
that. Regarding Roy 'Tiger' Williams - I agree he was a Gym fighter. He was very
big for his time and that gave some good fighters alot of trouble. There are
stories of Legendary Gym wars that he had with Ali. Some witnesses claim it was
the most amazing thing they'd ever seen.Apparently there is footage of the
sparring matches between Ali and Willaims - haven't seen it yet though. Keep out
of Jail Mr Ward !|
|11/23/03 02:39:28 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Evan, Marco
Antonio Barrera was considered one of the best pound for pound fighters in the
world until his loss last week to Manny Pacaico (I can't remember how to spell
the guys name). He had been fighting with the plate in his head and beating
everyone in sight but no one said a word about it but he loses one fight and
suddenly it is an issue. Yes, every effort should be made to insure
fighters are as safe as possible but there is still an inherent risk involved
when people enter the ring. They choose this profession.I have asked a
couple of Quarry family members if they tried to talk Jerry out of continuing
his career when it was obvious not fighting was the best thing for him and the
opinion was that "Jerry was going to do what Jerry was going to do." That Jerry
had a mind of his own and that he was very strong willed about what he wanted
and didn't want to do.Ironic in that when Jerry was working the corner
for his brother Mike in Mike's third fight against Mike Rossman, Jerry had the
fight stopped over Mike's strong objections. I would bet my bottom dollar that
if the situations was reversed and Mike was the cornerman for one of Jerry's
fights and Mike had the fight stopped, resulting in a loss for Jerry, that Jerry
would have been upset with Mike for stopping the fight. Mr. Jimmy said that
Mike was angry at Jerry for quite some time for stopping that fight. The issue
is, fighters at times have to protected from themselves as they don't look at
the situation objectively. The saying that the character Mikey, Rocky's trainer
in the Rocky movies, that every "pug" thinks he has one good fight left in him
is true in real life.|
|11/23/03 02:43:20 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||10|Hi Evan,
I agree with you 100%. Evan, I don't follow boxing too closely anymore. As a
result that story about Barrera having a device put into his head to fix an
aneurysm went right by me until I saw it in your post. Imagine that a guy has