SYND 28/10/70 JERRY QUARRY COMMENTS ON HIS FIGHT WITH MUHAMMED ALI 

Came from a clash of heads in the third. Quarry force him against the ropes with a left hook to the body and ali ducked his head and Jerry ran into it. It was a terrible break, but that's boxing. Ali erased all doubt in the return when he nearly beat Jerry to death.

@@ponekingpetch3595 Ali socked him

Later in life after this interview he knew Ali is the GREATEST.

A punch doesn't have to be hard to cause an eye injury. Actually, Ali was never renownwed as a hard puncher. But his hand speed, accuracy and the cumulative effects of his punches are what made him so formidable.

He’s just playing up the sport of it all, he obviously was sort of gaming for a re-match.

he was still daized from ali's punches

It's boxing...you only need 1 punch. Quarry was a hard enough hitter to get it done. His defense stunk, that's why he lost. Marciano is the closest thing to good defense that could go the distance with Ali. Duck and move and get in close. Actually Frazier did that in his win against Ali. Duck, crowd and move. Quarry didn't do that and took a lot of shots. But all Quarry would've needed was one clean shot or a short combo and he could have finished it.

@@chadlpnemt that's true about any fight or fighter. It only takes 1 punch. But it's extremely rare that just 1 punch would take care of business against a fighter of Ali's caliber. Quarry had 2 chances against Ali. Here and again in 1972. He never came close in either fight to landing that 1 punch. There were no miracles to be had.

@@richardweiler3966 Tell that to Henry Cooper, one punch dazed Ali and if the bell hadn't rang Cooper may have gotten the best of that fight. One had to fight Ali with a strategy, like Ali had a strategy. Quarry didn't really do that. Ali beat Quarry, no issue there, but Quarry was no slouch.

@@chadlpnemt all I know is that Ali got up and won that Cooper fight. The bell had nothing to do with it because the count continues after the bell unless it's the final round. Ali was up at the count of 3. Other fighters (Sonny Banks and Joe Frazier) dropped Ali too, but like Cooper, were unable to finish him. One punch wasn't enough. When Ali fought Quarry in 1970, he was far stronger and sturdier than the young Cassius Clay who fought Cooper more than 7 years earlier. Frazier was the only man to knock down the mature Muhammad Ali (the bogus Wepner knockdown was just a blown call by inept referee Tony Perez) and Ali was amazingly up immediately after sampling a left hook from Hell. If Frazier's flush legendary hook couldn't keep Ali down, it's very very doubtful that Quarry had anything in his arsenal that would have finished Ali.

It's amazing how all of these commenters are sucking up to a guy that finished last

quarry was a good guy. he knows ali was better than him but no real fighter is going to admit that until they retire.

@jjosephdubya most do when they lose. In boxing, there's no excuse for not having an excuse. Few ever admit that they truly lost because the other guy was better.

No likes haha😂

shame about the dementia he got later on

He sure didn’t

He was too brave for his own good. He should have fought at light heavyweight.

He never ducked a bottle of cheap liquor either Quarry was a stew bum

That's true..just look at his eye

thats true just look at the dementia he was suffering from before he died.

You act like you've been hit by my great Uncle

I answered this in the above post it was from a clash of heads in the third when Ali ducked his head and Quarry ran into it.

topmark on Jerry's face a third grader could do that's not collateral damage on a professional fighter for God's sake come out of your mom's basement Irish was a warrior Ali was a runner counter puncher he never one to stand and sit in there and take it like a man but he ended up with Parkinson's anyway cuz the rope-a-dope really wasn't anything but making him a dope 💯 no hate Dolly never was the fan I like a warrior with stand and fight big George Foreman absolutely phenomenal Ali never beat him either lactic acid Beach big men George was out of gas💪🤔💥 in fact the punch all they hit him with my grandmother could have pushed him down by the time that it happened George and run out of gas😬 those big muscles are taxing on a big man now back to Jerry if you think that's a problem and somebody beat him up I could show you pictures that would make you just squirrel like a third grade school girl 🤔😁😂

@jjosephdubya now girly boy I'm not a keyboard warrior over 100 amateur victories in Sweden Hungary and many other continents mashing faces and replacing soul such a body snatcher a six-foot-five 265 lb war machine 67 x 32 Irish😁 was not busted up and if you think that's busted up I'll take you hiking with a third grader she'll bust you up now don't get your britches all Titan go take a nap down in Mom's basement you'll be fine sonwith that being said I want you to pace yourself this afternoon just start off with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and work your way up to some meatloaf 😭😉🤗🙄

And that being said quarry ran out of gas against Fraser watch the fight in detail little Irish landed some devastating body shots as well Little Joe had a little more in the tank but the Irishman he was given and taken as well you guys got to be fair there's given taken all fights all fighting is an opportunity depending on the road work the diet the choices you made weeks before the fight and the encouragement dedication and trainers that were there for some Viking might I'm just not brush a little Irish is food choices he drank too much you snorted cocaine and the women used to line up for little lrish by the shitload😘 as each fighter has choice but every time the little Irish went into the fight he gave his heart he ended up giving his brain but nobody's calling him a coward or without talent unless they coming facial Viking war machine and we'll just start out with Twinkies first 😁

@@swedenoble6083 keep dreaming , Ali is the best boxer ever , he destroyed Quarry twice , nearly killing him second fight

@@swedenoble6083 nah Ali never beat him but made sure the white boy got punch drunk with dementia.

yeah, his pride in having a black man give him a good whipping in his own home state of georgia.

Well said

Perfect yes

He was great in terms of his heart and fortitude and overall toughness.

@jjosephdubya he was a great contender.

@jjosephdubya Jerry Quarry was an excellent fighter. Is that fair enough for you?

No match for the greatest

Cut too easy to really reach the top

Yes. With him being pummeled defenselessly against the ropes in the 7th round in the rematch in 1972. The ref mercifully stopped it.

you sure right about him having no brains should have seen him suffering from dementia

yeah, quarry ended up punch drunk after the fight with dementia.

@jjosephdubyafr

Those liston fights were mobbed controlled

@@titsmcgee7800 The 2nd fight, Liston took a dive. The first one, Clay just whipped his ass.

Where did foreman say that tho?

I remember what Belinda Ali said. They took away all most four years of his prime and when he comes back they put him in with A white man?

@@trentcleghorn6840 at that time, an Ali matchup versus a white fighter was guaranteed to be a box office bonanza. That's one reason they wanted Quarry. Black vs white. Khalilah Ali knew this. She was just pretending to be naive. Before the fight, Ali privately asked Quarry to call him the N word during press conferences, knowing it would really help sell tickets. Quarry refused.

@James Williams Well, ali didn't kill him... wupped him just the same.

@James Williams Quarry had more than enough chances to become champ... just wasn't good enough.

A fighter that kept getting sacked will always be remembered as nice guy that's it

I met Quarry in Miami after the Rufus Brassell fight. I was a young fighter myself. Quarry wasn't very pleasant or polite. On the other hand, I met George Chuvalo after the Dick Wipperman fight in Ohio. What a nice man George was.

lol

LOL

Ali wasn't a hard puncher. Floyd Patterson only lasted 2 rounds overall from his 2 fights with Liston. In his 2 fights with Ali Patterson went 18 rounds overall.

@@wonjubhoy I think ali carried patterson to punish him.

George Chuvalo knocked Quarry down and out. Several other fighters decked him, including Frazier, Patterson and Joe Alexander.

You’re an idiot and know nothing about boxing. Ali won 56 fights 38 By ko or tko he’d have taken your head off key board tough guy lol.

He left that to frazier and norton