January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Eastside for their "Time Tunnel" series.Especially anything about 70's fights.|
|8/30/02 05:53:38 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Louis through 4 - 0 - 1 draw. Okay
the last 4. In the first semi-final we have - George Foreman vs Joe Louis -
WOW !Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier (IV)Good luck chaps.|
|8/30/02 08:12:25 PM|paul|Montreal||drolpaul@aol.com||||10|Steve, the man who
called Jerry was indeed Rick Farris. I think I may have been mistaken in
claiming Rick was a lightheavy. He was lighter. I believe Rick hailed from
Burbank, an area not known as being fertile ground for aspiring prizefighters,
but he had a lenghthy, good career and fought main-event bouts in the L.A. area.
Rick is also a boxing writer. You probably read the piece on the
"cyberboxingzone" website. It has a section called Wail which I highly
recommend. Rick's piece is called "My Memories of Jerry Quarry." |
|8/30/02 09:34:35 PM|Kent |oriononside@aol.com||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Steve,
thanks for the compliment on my article about the recent James Toney fight. I
have done one piece for the time tunnel section over at Eastside Boxing about
Jerry's fight agaisnt Ron Lyle. I will probably do some more about fights from
that time period in the next few months. I have been working on a series of
articles for Eastside and another site called Heavyweight News featuring
hypotheical fights between Wladimir Klitschko verses six of the all time greats.
I have done four or the six bout series so far. I am also doing the series of
all time greats verses each other for Heavyweight News. The editor gave me the
assignment after I complained about the results of Jerry Quarry losing to Larry
Holmes by a knockout by a body shot and now I am working on a bout between Jack
Johnson and Max Baer. That is if the editor over at heavyweights isn't impatient
with me as I promised him that piece a few weeks ago but I have been too busy to
get it done. Fianlly, I will be reworking an interview I did last year with
James Quarry about the foundation that appered here on the Quarry site homepage
and at Eastside boxing, and I am updating it to acknowledge his passing away.
It should be up at Heavyweight News in the coming weeks. |
|9/1/02 10:41:43 AM|George L. Otto|Youngstown, Ohio||ehnpbsa@aol.com||||10|Below
is a copy of a document that I helped write and edit for the American
Association for the Improvement of Boxing, 86 Fletcher Avenue, Mount Vernon, New
York 10552-3319, 914.664.4571, email--aaib@worldnet.att.net, and website:
http://www.aaib.att.net. Those of you who have followed the efforts of TJQF to
make boxing better for the fans and fighters know that TJQF has frequently
worked closely with the AAIB to support the same positions on many legislative
issues through the efforts of James and myself. In my next posting, I will
provide a copy of MANIFESTO 2001, a document that contains many of those
positions and refers specifically tt the importance of TJQF's role in all of
this. Please read this and provide any feedback on this to me, as your comments
are very important in keeping the reform movement of TJQF moving ahead
!!Thanks !!|
|9/2/02 12:35:41 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Special thanks
to Mr. George Otto for all of his hard work in keeping the spirit of TJQF alive.
I will read the item when time permits and comment accordingly. I pick, after
some rough early rounds in which Joe Louis is decked twice by George Foreman,
Louis recovers to win a decision over Foreman. I pick, prime against prime, Ali
to win by decision over Frazier.|
|9/2/02 02:18:17 PM|Bob Bumbera|NC ||renfbera@aol.com||||10|Wow! There's alot of
stuff here. One thing I noticed was 13 round championship bouts. Why is 13
rounds any safer than 15? An athlete who is trained well should be able to go
the 15 round distance. The ones who aren't will fade long before. I know
championship fights went form 15 to 12 rounds shortly after the Mancini-Kim
fight. The reason, of course, was in the the name of safety but at the time,
many polititians were calling for a ban on the sport. In an effort to quiet
them down the major organizations reduced the title fight from 15 to 12 rounds.
I believe with proper training of ref's and cornermen, it will reduce the chance