@Abraham Franco Marciano's era was smaller heavies and old men. Nothing like the 200 plus pound prime giants in Jerry's Day Ali, Frazier, Chuvalo, Norton, Shavers, Lyle and FOREMAN!.....just to name a few.
@@fenwaypark1725 you missed the point,back in Marciano's day it was common for heavyweights to way under 200lbs,hell Marciano weighed about 185.so he never had to fight anybody with a serious weight advantage,Like Quarry who was getting outweighed by 30 40lbs sometimes.
@@joshuatree5620 and Quarry beat a lot of guys who were bigger: Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers, Buster Mathis, Thad Spencer, Mac Foster. This size thing is so overrated by modern fans. Especially at heavyweight. It's talent that counts. Not a few extra pounds and inches.
such a great fighter but such a sad ending. he was a cruiserweight fighter fighting heavyweights. not only that but it was the golden generation of heavyweights so there was no easy fights. I hope people dont remember him for the dementia but to remember his amazing career where he beat some of the greatest fighters and even when he lost he put on a show every time. RIP Irish Jerry quarry.
From a big Irish family, more likely was a soft touch for every relative on both sides of his family. If you're going to squander it, the the best way.
@@richardweiler3966 he's right.why do you think People Credit Quarrys Heart so much? Because of the beatings he used to take.anyone else would of been On the Floor.
@@joshuatree5620 You make it sound like Quarry lost every fight he was in and took a pounding in all of them. He had an outstanding record. Beat his share of world class heavyweights. Was ranked as highly as #3 in the world. Folks who probably never saw a single Quarry fight need to stop with this "he got battered every time he stepped into the ring" nonsense. Quarry dished out far more batterings than he took.
@@richardweiler3966 He beat Mathis, Lyle and Shavers. And other lesser contenders. He lost to Ali and Frazier, but everyone lost to Ali and Frazier. His record against contenders was about .500. Sportswriters and broadcasters create narratives and go and on with them whether they make sense or not. Quarry was as good as any other fighter of the era who never won a belt. But look at the price he paid for his name and his glory. Many others paid too. When Frazier died and then when Ali died, I thought about that line from the movie _Troy._ "Men rise and fall like the winter wheat but these names will live forever." I was a young guy back then, and we had a good time in our neighborhood bars watching these guy fight during the era of the 1970s. We got the glory, They paid. If Quarry hadn't had a family, he might have died on the street, and one of the other contender of the era just about did. I'll spare the name.
@Iceman 23 Quarry was an excellent heavyweight. It's only the clueless modern crowd who try to diminish Quarry by labeling him overrated, undersized and defenseless. Quarry defeated Shavers, Lyle, Foster, Patterson, Mathis and Spencer. You don't whip boxers of that quality unless you're a damn good boxer yourself.
