For a few years in the 1970s boxing’s heavyweight division had some of the most talented fighters all competing at the same time to see who was the greatest. Subscribe: / @sportnow Visit: www.unbeaten.com/combat Follow: @unbeatencombat
I think Jerry Quarry deserves to be mentioned here in this video. He was ranked in the top 5 for most of his career, and very often in the top 3. Champion George Foreman backed out of 2 world title matches with Jerry Quarry. And Jerry was the ONLY boxer to face Ali and Frazier 2 times each in his career.
Respectfully, Foreman would have utterly destroyed the admittedly great Quarry. Short pressure fighters could never beat Big George. He was too big, and way the hell too strong. In fact, to this day, Foreman is the physically strongest HW champ ever. It would have been bad, man. It would have been worse than Foreman v. Frazier. Cheers.
i honestly disagree with the 60-80s being called the golden era. In my opinion the 40s-60s is far more legendary. the main 3 fighters from the golden era are ali frazier and foreman, all 3 can be matched with marciano, robinson and louis. other legendary fighters in the golden era are norton and holmes, but after that the list basically ends for legendary fighters during the golden era. yet in between the 40s-60s we saw willie pep, floyd patterson, sonny liston (he also fought in the 60s but was out of shape), jake lamotta, max&buddy baer, tony zale, henry armstrong, and the list honestly just keeps going. i feel that the 40s-60s deserve more attention and that that period is the true golden era
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