January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|1/25/03 09:19:02 AM|Sonia Hathaway(Quarry)|Joshua Tree,
CA||Sonia81@aol.com||||10|You are right Paul! Couldn't have said it better.
Thanks!|
|1/25/03 07:13:25 PM|Forest Ward|South Carolina||joekevin@cs.com||||8|Hello
folks this is in response to Paul from Sydney. I did not call for the abolition
of boxing, I merely said that trying to make boxing safer is comparable to
making cigarettes safer. I further stated that it would be easier to make
capital punishment safer than to make boxing safer.Paul you said there are
literally thousands of success stories in boxing for every death. Okay, name
just 50 success stories. That's all just 50 names from your list of thousands.
Your suggestion that the Quarry family because of the brain injures sufferred
by Jerry and Mike makes them the most qualfied persons to decide the merits of
boxing, defies all logic. My intention is not to upset the Quarry family,
or Quarry fans (which I consider myself one). But folks, I am not going to
stick my head in the sand and pretend things aren't that bad with boxing, it's a
terrible corrupt sport beyond redemption. And I will say it again, it would be
easier to make the death penalty safer, than it would be to make boxing safer.|
|1/27/03 03:14:00 AM|Paul|Sydney, Australia||PlMls4@aol.com.au||||10|Forest,
sorry for misquoting you calling for the abolition of boxing, but you were so
negative about the sport that the bit about you being a fan and a historian
somehow snuck past me. With all due respect, I am not going to waste space on
this site listing all boxing's success stories as I am sure that most of the
posters already know who they are. All you need to do is run your finger down
the index of any good boxing book and the successes are there alphabetically
listed. Even over here in Australia where boxing is a tiny sport, we have had
many successes such as Jeff Fenech who readily admits that the alternative to
boxing was gaol. He won three world titles, is now fabulously wealthy, and is
training kids trying to give them the same chance in life boxing gave him. Other
successes here include Barry Michael, Lester Ellis, Rocky Mattioli, Hector
Thompson, Tony Mundine (senior), Johnny Famechon, Jeff Harding, George Barnes,
Jimmy Carruthers, Fred Henneberry, Ambrose Palmer, Les Darcy et al. The simple
fact is that most if not all boxers come from the poorer side of life and in
lieu of NASA offering them fabulous careers as rocket scientists or astronauts,
boxing lends them their only viable opportunities in life. You talk about
deaths in boxing. There are deaths in all sports. Over the last decade in
Australia more jockeys have been killed than boxers. Everything has its
inherent risks.....even walking out the front door or playing golf in a storm.
People who never boxed get dementia-related conditions, and non-smokers get lung
cancer. Those who enter boxing know the risks and the choice is theirs, not the
'kill joys' who generally don't like things that they are not good at (and I am
not suggesting that in your case). As far as the Quarry family is concerned, I
stand by my belief that they are far better placed than the rest of us to judge.
They rode the thrills and spills of Jerry's career and they were also the ones
who had to confront on a daily basis the sad aftermath to his courageous career.
I don't know about you, Forest, but they are certainly more qualified to judge
than me, as well as all those fat senators who like to call inquiries about
anything and everything. I don't know how corruption entered the debate, but
anything that generates money also breeds dishonesty in any walk of life.
Anyway, Forest, if I'm wrong then it wouldn't be the first time and I wish you
all the best. |
|1/27/03 11:44:12 AM|Mark Sargeant|UK||lpu00mts@reading.ac.uk||||10|I hope
members of this sight will share sympathy with the plight of Riddick Bowe who
was jailed last week. Although deservedly in prison for the crime he committed,
I can't help feel sorry for the man who had everything and let it all slip
through his fingers.In many ways Bowe was the best fighter since Holmes. At
his peak he had remarkable skill, speed and footwork for such a big man.
Combined with a lot of power and a very good and brave chin, he was a wonderful