BoxRec

Caractacus wrote:
I remember back sometime in the late 1960's,
some boxing experts critized Jerry Quarry for fighting in the heavyweight division due to his lack of size.
You know what his response was?

"Dynamite Comes in Small Packages".

Interesting enuff that was also the very same quote that Tuan_Juan had told his wife on their wedding night
when he dropped his drawers.
LMAO.

The old boy's on fire tonight!

Those misspellings always turn up when he's going Duce!

Quarry was great !

No he was not great, but he was very good. Had several interesting fights and fought very tough competition.

Ambling Alp II wrote:No he was not great, but he was very good. Had several interesting fights and fought very tough competition.

Very true. Maybe Keko meant those were great times or great matchups. Jerry was in the Patterson or Jimmy Ellis range which is good but not great. If he was like 12 years younger perhaps he could have become champion because he could have hung in there with Patterson (he did) or an Ingmar.

Quarry was great boxer!Very talented!

Keko wrote:Quarry was great boxer!Very talented!

agree, great fight against foster, lyle, shavers, mathis, spenser,

Keko wrote:Quarry was great boxer!Very talented!

I agree too. He was a very skillful, economical counter-puncher, with
a unique style honed over many years in the amateur and professional ranks.

You can learn a lot by watching him box: the way he feints, slips punches and
goes to the body, etc.

Shavers had a glass chin and was knocked out many times - including by Ron Stander, Ron Lyle, Tex Cobb, Bernardo Mercado, and Larry Holmes... He was beaten 14 times and knocked out 7 times... In his last fight he was knocked out by cherry-picked Brian Yates, 5-16-2.

Kalan wrote:Shavers had a glass chin and was knocked out many times - including by Ron Stander, Ron Lyle, Tex Cobb, Bernardo Mercado, and Larry Holmes... He was beaten 14 times and knocked out 7 times... In his last fight he was knocked out by cherry-picked Brian Yates, 5-16-2.

Including the Yates fight in assessing Shavers is like judging Ali on the Berbick fight. Why would you include a fight Shavers had at 50 years of age? It makes your whole argument look like crap.

hhaehre wrote:

Kalan wrote:Shavers had a glass chin and was knocked out many times - including by Ron Stander, Ron Lyle, Tex Cobb, Bernardo Mercado, and Larry Holmes... He was beaten 14 times and knocked out 7 times... In his last fight he was knocked out by cherry-picked Brian Yates, 5-16-2.

Including the Yates fight in assessing Shavers is like judging Ali on the Berbick fight. Why would you include a fight Shavers had at 50 years of age? It makes your whole argument look like crap.

Exactly! Better to consider Shavers' record at the time he fought Quarry, which was impressive.

Caractacus wrote:"Dynamite Comes in Small Packages"

Probably Quarry's best training camp ever was for Thad Spencer... He was 22 years old.. Everything worked out perfectly with no setbacks and Jerry felt so good he wasn't worried about his weight.. He knew he looked terrible versus Floyd Patterson and he was determined to not to lose to Spencer.. He came in at a rock hard 192.. He liked to be heavier but he felt so strong and solid he didn't care.. At the weigh-in Spenser weighed 205 or something I can't remember. But when Quarry was weighed Spencer was right there watching them adjust the bar. When they announced "Quarry 192" Spencer laughed and said "Jerry is too small for me." ... That's when Quarry turned to Thad and snapped those words at him.