January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

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
of injury. There will always be fighters, and athletes in many other sports who
have too much guts for there own good. They don't know when to quit. If the
people around them, their "team mates" if you willand the officals, can stop
the event before it goes too far serious injury can be avoided. But in the
sport of boxing many will still wind up like the Robinson's, Quarry's or Ali no
matter what safe guards are in place. I will have to pick Ali by decision over
Frazier. Louis by KO in 7. |
|9/3/02 08:08:31 PM|charles anderson|pine
bluff,arkansas||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|i would like to see some of jerry's
fights where he wins, such as lyle,foster,ect. even zanon would be better than
watching the ali and frazier fights over and over and over on espn classic.|
|9/3/02 08:11:44 PM|charles anderson|pine bluff,
arkansas||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|what do you think, kent? you got any pull
with espn?|
|9/4/02 04:07:34 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|Charles, the
only pull I have with ESPN is that I sat right behind the announcers table a
couple of times on ESPN 2 Friday night fights. Teddy Atlas gave me a funny look
as if to say, "that is pretty lame," because I kept yelling, "let's get ready to
rumble," every time the public address announcer (not Michael Buffer) had his
back turned. I only had those ringside seats because I showed up the first day
they went on sale. It is difficult to get sites or publications to "comp" me
tickets at times, so often the money comes out of my pocket. Trying to break
into the big time in sports journalism can be difficult. So to make a long
story short, no, I have no pull with any of the networks. It does give me an
idea of doing an article about how fans have to watch the same repeats over and
over again, and about how sick we are of it. I could send it to ESPN and see if
it helps any. PS, I actually do a fairly good imitation of Buffer's signature
saying. |
|9/4/02 08:59:03 AM|Joe Krause|Chicago||sadmspats@yahoo.com||||10|Louis didn't
run from anyone, and if you didn't run from George he would cream you. This
would end in a KO in the 6th for Foreman. Ali in his prime was not as much
better than the "old" Ali as everyone says. I have all his fights so I should
know. He was quicker but made more mistakes. Nonetheless Ali by close
decison.|
|9/4/02 08:33:29 PM|Gerry Schultz|Ohio||jgschultz@firstam.com||||10|Your
tournament has been fun to follow, but must say I'm surprised Foreman is in your
Final Four. A huge puncher, yes, but with poor balance and few real skills which
Lyle and Young further exposed after Ali skillfully handled him. Louis would
pick him apart, but his flat-footedness might indeed give George his opening,
tough call. I think Ali was peaking about the time he was stripped, 1967 or so.