{"id":9512,"date":"2015-05-27T00:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9512"},"modified":"2015-05-27T00:25:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:25:15","slug":"video-is-funny-and-also-tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9512","title":{"rendered":"Video is funny &#8230; and also tragic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jerry Quarry doing a great Muhammad Ali impersonation!! LOL!! Enjoy :)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YSC6XLh7fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video popped up on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw it, I laughed out loud.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen comedians impersonate Muhammad Ali. Billy Crystal&#8217;s perhaps is the most famous. But then I watched this brief snippet, featuring the late Jerry Quarry, a former heavyweight fighter &#8212; and a very good one at that.<\/p>\n<p>So help me, I didn&#8217;t know Quarry had that kind of wit and charm.<\/p>\n<p>Then my thoughts turned to what happened to Jerry Quarry. He became terribly disabled because of the profession he chose to pursue. Quarry won a lot of fights during his fighting days. He also lost some fights. And in all of them he took a lot of punishment. To the head. The result of that punishment resulted in Quarry&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered complications from something called dementia pugilistica. He was punch drunk. He suffered irreparable brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>Another YouTube video, which is attached to the link shown on this blog, shows Quarry being inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame. He didn&#8217;t understand the event where he was being honored. He needed help from his brother to dress, to feed himself, to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>I once was a huge fan of boxing. I once couldn&#8217;t get enough of the Friday Night Fights. I cheered for Jerry Quarry and occasionally against him, such as when he fought Muhammad Ali twice &#8212; in 1970 and again in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>The price that these men pay saddens me. Yes, I know they <em>choose<\/em> to do this for a living.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing this video and knowing how it all ended for the man it features offers a serious lesson to anyone who wants to take up this line of work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video popped up on YouTube. The first time I saw it, I laughed out loud. I&#8217;ve seen comedians impersonate Muhammad Ali. Billy Crystal&#8217;s perhaps is the most famous. But then I watched this brief snippet, featuring the late Jerry Quarry, a former heavyweight fighter &#8212; and a very good one at that. So help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video is funny &#8230; and also tragic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[1329,1822,2450,3158,3752],"class_list":["post-9512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-sports-news","tag-dementia-pugilistica","tag-friday-night-fights","tag-jerry-quarry","tag-muhammad-ali","tag-professional-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}