January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Foreman was an upset, Young's win over Ron Lyle (leading up to the Foreman
fight) impressed me enough to see that Young's boxing skills could cause fits
for Foreman. Foreman's 90's comeback was exciting and valid. His overall
career record and important wins put him right up there with other greats. He
didn't have a draw against Jumbo Cummings during his comeback, either. |
|8/21/04 09:01:32 PM|Funny Man|Vaudeville||funnyhaha@vaudeville||||10|Whats got
long hair, a fat lip, and a blackened right eye ? Smokin Joes
girlfriends.What was the best left hook Frazier ever threw ? Last week
when Vivian was late with dinner.|
|8/22/04 04:33:35 AM|Massimo |Roma, founded by Romolo and Remo in 753
B.C.||raimondo vianello is a living legend.com||||10|If the story of Frazier
enjoying from Ali''s medical condition is true, Joe Frazier is a very cruel
person and I'm not going to shake hands with him.How good do you think
will be Ali's health conditions in, say, 2014 ? I don't know that much about
Parkinson desease. I immagine they are gonna get worse, but my question is, how
much worse and how quickly ? I wish he will be as fine as possible. Ali' is, and
has ever been, after all, a decent person. Apart from the 2 wives stuff in
Zaire, he doesn't sound like a cruel person; even if, I have to admit, I have
never met him. I know who Muhammad Ali' is, but he doesn't know who Massimo Cini
is. He is a little more popular than me. Good luck, Muhammad Ali' ! |
|8/22/04 05:36:58 AM|Timana|Auckland||kiwi@aol.com||||10|MasimmoI have a
relative with a similar disease to Parkinsons and it is a degenerative illness
that only gets worse and never improves. There is no cure. They shake
with uncontrollable tremors, and just sit in a chair and twitch. Smooth control
of movement is lost because brain cells controlling it have degenerated.
Eventually the sufferer becomes a total invalid.In the early stages,
intelligence and mental powers are unaffected. This causes a lot of frustration,
especially because their speech is usually impaired.They become
depressed, anxious, and emotionally disturbed (especially when people mock and
ridicule them).The disease progresses over years, rarely causing death,
but rendering the sufferer eventually totally dependent on others for every day
tasks. Drugs today can control the symptoms early on.It is different to
alzheimers which President Reagen had. With alzheimers they lose their memory
and in the end can't even recognise family.People can get Parkinsons
naturally. It doesn't have to be through getting punched to the head, although
in Ali's case it most certainly was caused that way, if we believe what we've
all read in papers and elsewhere.It's not a funny disease, either to the
sufferer and especially to the family.|
|8/22/04 10:39:02 AM|Bob Bumbera|NC||renfbera@aol.com||||10|Angelo, I didn't
mean to imply in my post that Foreman wasted his tallent, I don't believe that
at all. However, if you put both of his careers together, he still doesn't rate
a top 5 or 6. His second career was one of the most amazing athletic feats in
history. If fact I think it far exceeds the first incarnation of "Big George".
I'm 45 years old and I can barely walk up two flights of stairs, in my twentys I
ran 5 miles a day and could squat over 450 pounds. He did an incredible thing.
Other former champs fought exibitions in their 40's and some later in life but
they didn't make a career out of it, let alone challange a man in his mid 20's
for the heavyweight championship of the world. As far as Frazier being cruel
and mocking Ali's condition, I'm not a "boxing insider" but I did have friends
who boxed, both amatuer and pro, and they all mocked guy's who took one too
many. Cruel yes, Ali did it many times himself. He took great pleasure in
humiliating sparring partners in front of crowds and reporters in training camp.
He often rambled on and on about how sparring partners were the "lowest form of
life". You have to have a serious mean streak in you to be able to climb in to
a ring and punch a hole in another human being. Both Frazier and Ali had it in
spades. |
|8/22/04 04:50:48 PM|Timana|Auckland||same||||10|BobYes, boxers do