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Which would have the best chance of becoming a champ today?

Posted: 02 May 2008, 11:32
by actjac
Gerry Cooney
Jerry Quarry
Teoflio Stevenson

Posted: 02 May 2008, 12:30
by Cap
Quarry would likely be a cruiserweight champ today.

Cap

Re: Which would have the best chance of becoming a champ tod

Posted: 02 May 2008, 12:33
by The Great John L
actjac wrote:Gerry Cooney
Jerry Quarry
Teoflio Stevenson
All of them

Re: Which would have the best chance of becoming a champ tod

Posted: 05 May 2008, 20:48
by elmersalsa
The Great John L wrote:
actjac wrote:Gerry Cooney
Jerry Quarry
Teoflio Stevenson
All of them
And then some. all of them would have been MULTI MILLIONARES AND SUPERSTARS :TU: :TU: :TU:

Posted: 12 May 2008, 03:30
by VoiceOnTV
I'm not quite as sure about Quarry being a cruiserweight champ. He could be, but sorta depends on how he was matched. Cruisers aren't too bad right now. Cooney would fare pretty well right now, but I think Klitschko would find him with "the missle." Teofilo Stevenson with a fair chance to go pro would've been a threat in any era.

Posted: 12 May 2008, 10:24
by HomicideHenry
SHIIIIIIT, Cooney fought harder in defeat, and he only lost to hall of famers, and had the hardest hitting left hook of the 1980's, hell even Foreman said that Cooney was the hardest hitting man he ever fought, and Cooney by that time been inactive for years. Klitschko wouldn't come close to being champ today, if Cooney had been of this generation.

Quarry, without question, would have been either a champion or a top five contender in ANY era at Heavyweight.

Posted: 12 May 2008, 11:12
by Smokin'Moe
maybe its my irish bias view....by the Quar-Bear would be a force at cruiserweight....he would definitely hold at least two of those damn alphabet trinkets

Posted: 13 May 2008, 13:55
by raylawpc
From the old-timers, I suspect that Sam Langford, Kid McCoy and Joe Choynski would have been hard to beat at light-heavyweight today or in any later era.

Posted: 13 May 2008, 15:35
by dempseyfire
Quarry maybe a cruiserweight champ?? Quarry would definitely be THE HW champion today. He would soundly outbox the likes of Peter, Chagaev, Thompson, Brock etc.

Klitschko would be a tough matchup style wise for the early going but Quarry's durability and pace would wear Klit down on route to a late stoppage loss. If Klit thought the mediorce Brock was tricky to figure out my God Jerry would have him in stitches.

Cooney is an awful style matchup for Wlad and I'd favor Cooney by early knockout.