January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

from himself ? Everyone ? Apart from the boxer himself, EVERYONE else has a duty
of care to that boxer. There'd be so many defendants, you wouldn't fit 'em in
the Superdome. And then the lawyers and hangers-on would eat up all the award in
costs and disbursements. And guest what ? The incapacitated boxer gets nothing
and taxpayers must then foot the cost of his remaining days in a nursing home
because not everyone can get a job as a 'greeter' at Caesar's Palace. So the
winner by unanimous verdict is..... all the lawyers ! Sadly, Gianfranco, that's
how the system would probably work. Perhaps Forest Ward was right all along when
he wrote many months ago that boxing produces more victims than winners. |
|11/29/03 07:09:09 AM|Evan B|Sydney||evanb46@juno.com||||10|Staeve, are you
drinking again? Paul, I imagined a situation where someone like Barrera
would have no medical insurance and after being injured in the ring, would be
taken to a county facility. Yes, court cases could get caught up in a storm of
delays. The Quarry family took some advantage of public assistance,
including SSI, I would imagine. It may have amounted to millions of dollars over
the years. Where'd you do your scufflin', Steave? |
|11/29/03 07:49:03 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||Kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Yes, anyone
who enters the ring is no bum. Evan, let me tell you, they had some pretty
tough hombres there at the La Habra Boys Club and tha La Habra Catholic church.
I put the gloves on and sparred with some of these guys back in my youth and one
of them busted my lip up and bloodied my nose up quite good. I wish I could
remember the guy's name as I was certain he was a good pro prospect. Why?
Because he kicked my ass of course!Hey, but if the fans want to call
someone a bum, then let them. Boxing is nothing without the fans and while I
don't agree with someone saying any fighter is a bum, they have a right to say
it. At various boxing shows, I can always tell when east coast writers
such as from Philly are around. Some of these guys seem to be an arrogant bunch
and they act like they are above the rest of the press core instead of being
just another guy with an opinion, which is what most boxing writers are anyway,
just a fan who is lucky enough to have a forum to express his or her opinion.|
|11/29/03 10:10:49 AM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|TWO THINGS YOU
CAN BET ON MY OPINION OF GERRY COONEY WILL NOT AND MY OPIPION OF JERRY QUARRY,
IF QUARRY HAD THE SIZE OF COONEY HE WOULD HAVE HELD THE TITLE I DON'T KNOW HOW
LONG, BY THE WAY WHAT BIG FIGHTS DID COONEY EVER WIN? HE'LL NEVER GET THE
RESPECT OF JERRY QUARRY , NOT FROM ME , NOT FROM BOXING FANS , NOT FROM HIS
FELLOW FIGHTERS, NEVER!!!!!!!! |
|11/29/03 10:41:37
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Larry Holmes said
Cooney hit him low so many times, he thought Cooney was "funny," as Larry put
it.To the person who asked:Frazier started out punching a bag with
bricks in it for weight, surrounded by rags and things, which he hung in a tree.
He wanted to be Joe Louis. No one messed with him, even when he was a little
kid. We all know you're born with a big punch, but obviously the tenacity was
there too. He went to the gym because he was a real butterball, and a guy there
noticed that he could really punch, even though he didn't know how. His hard
work ethic was why they told him to stick around later as an altenate when
Mathis was on the Olympic team, because Mathis was so lazy. When Buster broke
his hand, Joe was in.An interesting thing about his conversion from
southpaw - his father lost part of his left arm to a farming machine. When Joe
was born, people showed up to see if he'd have a left arm! In the superstitious
tradition of a lot of the deep southern black culture, many later said that
Joe's left hook was so powerful because he had his father's strength too, from
the severed arm!|
|11/29/03 11:36:18
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Here's an
interesting topic at boxrec.com on sparring sessions between name fighters, some
who actually met later for real, some who