January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation
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unpredictable as Ali, like a chess master setting a sinister trap, then<br />
springing.Tony Galento said he "felt like the referee was hitting me too," which<br />
is the way Carnera must have felt. Some might have been ~as~ accurate, and as<br />
good with combinations as Louis, but it'd be a short list, and no one could<br />
finish a man like Louis could. Of all the fights I've seen, few were as good at<br />
cutting off the ring, either. For heavyweights, I'd put Dempsey, Marciano, and<br />
Frazier in Louis's class in that area. Of course, the question of how he'd do in<br />
the 60s and 70s is always out there. He'd have done fine, though he wouldn't<br />
have annihilated most of the men of that era the way he did virtually all in his<br />
own time. <strong>The</strong>re are top contenders, let alone champins, in the 60s-70s who would<br />
have made mince meat out of many of Louis's opponents - an awful lot really<br />
~were~ bums of the month.Kent -SI doesn't have back copies<br />
online, so maybe I'll check the library. That was at just about the end of his<br />
career, so I imagine <strong>Jerry</strong> was already feeling many symptoms of his impending<br />
condition, just as a person does, if they're observant and truthful, way ahead<br />
of a heart attack. I think Cobb and Homes was even worse than Ali and Wepner,<br />
and should have been stopped as early as the end of the fifth round. Of course,<br />
some good came out of it - we never had to listen to Howard Cosell broadcast a<br />
fight again!|<br />
|9/2/03 04:22:40 PM|Massimo|Rome||.com||||10|Roadscholarette-Thanks ! I saw<br />
all the Ali'-Wepner fight and, without a doubt, Ali' completely outboxed Chuck.<br />
But I have read that Wepner was in the top 10 at the moment of the fight !!! How<br />
is it possible ? He didn't deserve to be ranked in the top 10. He was just a<br />
brave fighter ! I think Louis beat some good fighters like Buddy Baer, Lou Nova,<br />
Max Schmeling, Max Baer andmaybe Tony Galento ( the guy could punch...)and a<br />
lot of bums !|<br />
|9/2/03 07:01:26 PM|Tubby Breslin |Fullerton, CA ||bearstubastanchu@aol.com<br />
||||10|Hello, all you boxing lovers! In one of my previous careers, I was a<br />
speech pathologist and therapist. One of the areas of this profession is working<br />
with people who have aphasia, or brain damage related to communication. This<br />
damage can take almost an infinite number of forms, many very subtle. It can<br />
also unfold very slowly, or after a delay. When the human brain is assaulted by<br />
blunt (like boxing punches or baseball bat or stone) or piercing (knife, ice<br />
pick, screwdriver) injury, it is always damaged. <strong>The</strong>re is no escaping it. <strong>The</strong><br />
extent of the damage depends on many factors. <strong>The</strong> bottom line is that any boxer<br />
who has had even a few pro or very active amateur fights has already begun to<br />
incur some brain damage. Those with 20, 30, 40 or more fights have<br />
proportionally more damage. This applies to <strong>Jerry</strong> <strong>Quarry</strong>, Muhammad Ali, and<br />
every other former boxer, no matter how undamaged he may appear. Archie Moore<br />
and Sugar Ray Robinson were both notoriously punchy, although when seen briefly<br />
on TV, the damage may not have been obvious to all. It wasn't obvious for many<br />
years with Joe Louis, either, until he was a drooling old man in the Las Vegas<br />
casinos. If you watch any former experienced boxer, you will see some signs, if<br />
you know what to look for. This is an unfortunate but undeniable fact.<br />
Today in the newspaper, Warren Sapp, a former NFL lineman and All Star<br />
who weighs 350+ pounds and stands 6'7", is quoted as saying he is "confident" he<br />
could defeat Mike Tyson in the boxing ring. Sapp holds a championship in a<br />
competition combining karate, tae kwon do and other martial arts. Of course, if<br />
he were allowed to kick and so forth, he probably would win. But if boxing rules<br />
only were enforced, I have no doubt that Tyson would cut Sapp in two with his<br />
first body punch. Anyone agree? Let's make a plea here. In any group of<br />
boxers, such as the heavyweight division at any time in history, there are<br />
excellent, good, average, weak and poor fighters. In our discussions, Ali,<br />
Frazier, Foreman, Dempsey, Holmes, Louis and probably Marciano and Tyson are the<br />
excellent ones. Some of the good ones are <strong>Jerry</strong> <strong>Quarry</strong>, Ken Norton, the young<br />
Floyd Patterson, and so forth. For average, we might include Riddick Bowe or<br />
Lennox Lewis or maybe someone like Jimmy Ellis. Now we get to weak and poor,