Corrie Sanders vs Jerry Quarry

Quarry by decision or late round stoppage. Jerry had the chin, heart, and skills to beat Sanders. Quarry did not lose a lot of fights due to cuts and his hand speed is often over-looked. In evaluating Quarry it should be considered that he lacked proper management during his formative years as a boxer.

 

Your insistence on the equivalency of eras between a bunch of diaper wearing hillbillies and guys who should reasonably be several weight divisions higher scuttles potentially valuable contributions.

 

True, but he would have done even better with top-rate management from the beginning. All the greats had the best people in their corner: Dempsey/Kearns, Ali/Dundee, Marciano/Weil, etc.

 

Hart fought and beat guys the size of Sanders.

I assume equivalence between eras, because you can ultimately never prove the superiority of one era over another.

 

Great analysis!

 

Assuming it's the best Sanders, he should win it whether he boxes, cuts Quarry, or stops him.

The guy has a large advantage in speed, power, and natural size. Sanders was a very large man, which gets forgotten because he's remembered for fighting the Klitschko's and Rahman. The "until Sanders gasses" arguments don't really hold in a fantasy match because I'm assuming he'd train and, like others have stated, he could go rounds when he was younger.

 

It's true, but Quarry doesn't punch like Rahman. Actually, Rahman and Vitali couldn't even put him away. He gassed in both of those fights.

 

His offense was his defense. He pitched so much leather at once that more often than not he was nigh on impossible to counter. He had some very fast hands for such a big guy.

 

Sanders was big, fast and punched very hard, whereas Quarry was an excellent counter puncher, with a really good chin and natural toughness.

Quarry's counter punching and durability takes the day in this matchup.

 

"Sanders often left himself outrageously open when he was in a 2 handed all out assault."

Perhaps, but he didn't just start his assault out of nothing. He typically exploded, after countering his opponent with a straight left. Smaller guys without a punch aren't going to have much for Sanders. The tougher they were, the worse the beating they took. Al Cole had supposedly never kissed canvas before fighting Sanders, and that fight was a massacre.

It really depends, also, on which version of Sanders you're talking about. His younger self hit less hard but had excellent movement and excellent conditioning. His older self was less mobile but hit harder, and also tended to gas, somewhat.

 

jerry demolishes wlad's sanders once sanders gasses out in round 5 - the one wlad got killed by in under 200 seconds.

jerry decisions comfortably the young corrie.


jerry beats wlad comfortable too, given the above.