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@@lestermount3287 Anyone has the potential of being knocked out quickly if they get hit solid at the right place and at the right time. Sometimes what observers call a weak chin is just really a euphemism for poor defense.
He would have been one of the top guys, but guys like Patterson, and Ellis, would also have been a part of it. Frazier only weighed 204 in the first Ali fight.
Yes one tough guy but unfortunately it cost him later in life-he ended up dying of dementia and the last years of his life was doing guest appearances at local events. I attended one autograph session he held and he seemed to be in another world.
Anyone that says Jerry Quarry was a bum or a loser is full of sh.t. He could have and did beat everyone in the heavyweight division with the exception of 3 or 4 boxers. And this was when that division was loaded with talent. Try being in the top 5 best in the world at anything.
Most of the ppl talking all that jazz never even laced any gloves. Just some fans trying to win a one up contest! My guy is better than your guy kinda thing. Try not to take it personal!
@@YellowPaint100 I’ve never seen or heard of a great athlete, in this case a boxer, suffering so many disparaging remarks. My theory is that people expected a lot, maybe too much, from Quarry. He had many ring talents including very fast hands, an array of punches, toughness, a real gamer that didn’t back down from anyone. He didn’t have that one big powerful punch and his defense was very lacking but overall he was very good and should be respected not disparaged.
Fun Facts - the Quarry/Shavers fight was the only time that Ali, Foreman, and Frazier were in a boxing ring at the same time. Earlier in the year - Quarry took a unanimous decision against a very tough Ron Lyle who was 19-0 w/17 KO's at the time. After the Shavers fight - Foreman later admitted to dodging Quarry. Not So Fun Fact - Quarry died a horrible boxer's death at the young age of 53 - after Ali, Frazier, and Foreman all said he was the greatest heavyweight to never win a belt.
Can you imagine the hype from a Quarry vs Foreman matchup? Instead, Foreman defended his title three months later against Ken Norton. He should have defended against Quarry that night. I can’t imagine what it was about Quarry that spooked Foreman.
@@davidbrandel4128 I think watching Quarry go the distance with Lyle and take a unanimous decision and then KO Shavers in 1 spooked a lot of top ranked guys. But Norton was legit and deserved a shot. I think he was robbed against Ali.
Foreman dodged Shavers as well as Quarry. Mind you Ali dodged a rematch with Foreman, and was lucky that Teofelo Stevenson did not turn pro. Stevenson was a one punch knockout merchant , unlike Ali ...if you dont count the phantom punch that Ali KOd Sonny Liston....
@@dalek3086 I think Liston threw both fights - a tragic man who got in too deep. The fight in Zaire was BS for a lot of reasons - Foreman would have destroyed Ali in the US - King got his grubby hands on the sport by then and started to destroy it. Ali got a of decisions - Norton was robbed, and I think Jimmy Young was too.
I don't know if you like Horse Racing but Quarry reminds me of the horse Sham who had to go against Secretariat, wrong year to be a great 3 year old racehorse.
@@spunkos5870 the judges gave him some crazy decisions, Norton and Young being the most obvious. I don't think Ali fixed the Liston fights, but look it up - even the FBI thought the Mob did. Pretty sure Liston took a dive in both fights.
People forget just how tough Jerry Quarry was. And he was a KO artist. Ali knew this each time he fought Quarry and stayed away until the right moment. But Quarry usually lost still standing. I know Sonny Liston was around during this era but never entertained a bout with Quarry. I'm not saying Liston was cautious, (maybe he was) but you have to wonder, many of the tough fighters Ali fought like Frazier, Joe Bugner, Oscar Bonavena -- Liston never fought & they were all there for a payday during a time when Liston was still fighting. They call Jerry a cruiserweight but he KO'd Earnie Shavers right? Anyone over 180 lbs can possess heavyweight power. Just ask Jake Willard what an 186 lb Jack Dempsey did. Or how Max Baer defeated Primo Carnera. Many fighters have defeated much larger opponents -- you can see evidence on RU-vid matches. The teenage fighter who KO'd the big huge muscle-bound fighter twice his size was incredible. People forget that fighters like Rocky Marciano have natural strength, they're well-conditioned, and have stamina & endurance -- plus, skills that can overwhelm a much larger opponent. Tyson Fury is breathing through his mouth by the 3rd round & you think a KO artist like Marciano is threatened by that? All those big fighters look great in the ring...until they get hit really hard. Mike Tyson said it prophetically: "Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth." Exactly.
Quarry also beat Ron Lyle and Mac Foster when Foster was undefeated and considered a future champion. Quarry had a spectacular career for an undersized heavyweight. He would definitely have been a champion in the age of multiple championship belts.
in other words, he never was Champ because it wasn't yet as watered down as it's been in recent years. the only title that mattered to real fighters then, was the actual linear title. ALI used to point that out a lot. "the belt that I own goes back to Sullivan, Jack Johnson, Marciano and so forth." Jerry would rather not win anything but the belt from the man who beat the man. now, it's "I think I'll challenge for the junior bantam weight IBF tlte" ...something like that.
I love the friendly banter between Frazier, Ali and Foreman. You rarely see this kind of stuff now days. Now you have fighters making fun of personal and religious beliefs, bringing family into the equation and being down right mean to one another.
Shavers would go on to recover and land several championship fights with Foreman, Ali. He had a knockout punch but was short on stamina. If you could take him past the 5th round you had a good chance of winning.
even ALI had those nites when his right hand was working. they stopped the Lyle fight because his legs were gone just long enough to consider Lyle's safety, and help ALI win. you all know ALI in the '70's got gift decisions. and this nite, some other fighters may have been allowed to continue if the bounce returned to their legs, but ALI had to be the draw for as long as he'd make $$ for Don King and bumbs like that. so while Lyle's legs were gone, he had to lose. he could have been seriously hurt .but I do remember Lyle doing well on the cards (pts), and thinking he MAY have a chance if he'd had time to recover. even ALI ali was elated. Dundee was probably telling him, "he's got you on pts, kid".
Dude wtf are you saying? I can’t follow a thing…. Lyle v Ali? ..legs gone…Ali got gift decisions? This a Quarry / Shavers video. Did Quarry kick Shavers ass on this nite, or not? Round 1, 2, 3, or whenever. Who gives a shit
I saw this fight live. Jerry Q was a superb boxer puncher with a granite chin. He was just too small for the bigger men in the division. Had there been a cruiser wt division at this time there is little doubt he would have been the champ. He had really good boxing skills and a wicked left hook that could drop just about anyone. He was just too small for the HWT division. And the fact that he did so well as a hwt only proves that there weren't to many who could take his punch or handle his toughness. Smokn Joe might have been the only guy he could not have beat. Just sayn, JQ was a superb boxer, puncher with a chin of granite.
Jimmy Young and George Chuvalo, for sure. Alfredo Evangelista and Duane Bobick....sort of. Scott Ledoux knocked Howard Cosell's toupee off - which is something. Leon Spinks started fighting in '77 I think.
boxing is crazy game. Quarry couldn't last with Ali more than 6 rounds in both two fights while Shavers almost knocked out Ali. now Quarry knocks out Shavers in the first round!
Never knew that Jerry Quarry won a 1st Round KO against Earnie Shavers. All the other heavy weights that made an appearance all say Earnie Shavers has the hardest punch they ever took. Ali, Foreman, Frasier, said this.
@@billyjack7728 Your comment is accurate. There are a lot of misconceptions about Quarry. He was actually a little taller and heavier than Joe Frazier. Quarry was a decent boxer, good hand speed, power and a superb chin. What he didn't have was good defense. He tended to pose and was easy to hit by the quicker guys in the division (Ali, Frazier). He seldom was knocked down, but his poor defense led to cuts. When he was matched with fighters of the same hand speed and the same lack of defense (Lyle, Shavers, etc.) his power and chin prevailed. Another thing, later in his career he did party a bit too much and sometimes he was not always in tip top shape. And early in his career, he would have benefited by better management instead of having his Father involved. His strategy in some fights was questionable. Anyone who says he was not an excellent fighter has never entered the ring. He was very, very good. A couple of guys were just a better.
@@ragnarjarkarsoson8652They didnt rig the Cooper fights. Dundee double cheated in the first fight. First by tearing open a slightly torn glove Ali was using. Then, years later, after Cooper put Ali on his ass, Dundee admitted Ali was so out of it from that left hook, that he had to resort to using smelling salts. Watch that fight. Ali was so out of it that halfway thru the between rounds rest period he got off his stool, thinking the next round was starting!! Smelling salts-Highly illegal then, and still is today! Ali admitted the left hook Cooper floored him with was the best punch that anyone ever landed on him. Vulnerability to a left hook was the one flaw Ali never completely mastered.
