January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

interests of TJQF and the American Association for the Improvement of Boxing on
a pro bono basis (for free) for about 8 years. On a more recent basis, I have
supported the passage of S. 275, the Professional Boxing Amendments Act of 2003-
-legislation that would establish a federal boxing commission. If this bill
passed and was properly implemented, then the sport would become fairer, more
organized, and respectable. Furthermore, the fighters could more easily
establish a union. I commend Roadscholarette and Gerry Schultz in commenting
upon these issues and the efforts of Senator McCain. Please contact your U.S.
Senator and urge him or her to vote for this important legislation
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|9/4/03 07:50:31 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|TUBBY: No name
calling or disrepect from me, that's not my style. But you seem to think that
every single retired boxer is a closet drooling idiot and the rest of us, even
when we speak face to face with them, don't have enough common sense to detect
whether a man has brain damage or not. When someone points out sharpness of
their memory of clarity of thought, you cloud the discussion with terms like
"aphasia" which I assume is supposed to impress us enough to believe that a
person who our eyes tell us is perfectly normal is in fact brain damaged. And as
far as Ron Lyle goes, I never once said he was "great" -- I said he was very,
very good and i stand by this. He put Foreman on the floor twice and bums don't
do that. Anyone who thinks that the man who put George Foreman on the deck
twice is a poor heavyweight has a clear case of "aphasia" or just doesn't know
squat about boxing.|
|9/4/03 08:08:34 AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|I
never heard that Jim Brown had said that he could beat up Jerry Quarry, but he
might have. If he did, he'd have to know that that's just as foolish as thinking
Jerry could step cold into the NFL and rush for 1,000 yards, and to quote
Muhammed Ali, "If you even dreamed that, you should wake up and apologize!"
Quarry had just over 300 fights. Even a fat barroom brawler with no athletic
skill or training, would know something about fighting after that many
skirmishes. If Brown lasted a round, it'd be a miracle. If he threw a hundred
punches and landed one, it'd be a miracle, and if he happened to evade even one
of JQ's, it'd be an accident. Now, Brown might have been a good fighter if he'd
chosen that instead of football, but if he made such a statement, he was
obviously under the same delusion many ordinary people are, that a top pro
fighter is just someone who jogs, hits the bag, and maybe has someone tell them
how to throw a couple of punches, also that since everyone has been in a fight,
they can therefore ~fight~. Another interesting misconception I hear all too
often is that the pro ranks are two or three really super-duper fighters in a
division, and everyone else is cannon fodder. I'm looking forward to
seeing the movie Undefeated, which actually used real boxers, instead of actors
or stuntmen. I agree with Tubby that Fat City is a superb boxing movie. It
depicts two men (Keach and Bridges) who are an awful lot more common in the game
than are Ali-Frazier-Foreman, particularly in such a unique sport in which
anyone can fight for money. They actually had pretty decent moves for actors.
Look for X champ Curtis Cokes as one of the bed partners (also had by Keach) of
a local female barfly.Most Hollywood movies are absurd. I was really
impressed by the athleticism of Carl Weathers, and loved Rocky, though the
fights were pure fiction. No fighter gets hit that much of that hard and stays
up, though this sort of thing is common in Tinseltown productions. Even Raging
Bull, while a great movie, went Rocky in the fights. Good Lord, the sound
effects sounded like a building falling on a truck full of watermelons
too!George - nice work, and I most certainly will contact my
representative about that bill. I'll encourage friends to do so too, even ones
who aren't boxing fans, and haven't even heard of it!|
|9/4/03 12:06:42 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|RON LYLE, was truly a great fighter,Not