Jerry Quarry In His Last Years

A Quarry vs Foreman fight would have been more a competitive fight because of styles.

Even though Quarry was the No. 1 Contender, the Boxing Industry made Quarry fight Frazier (someone he could never beat) while Foreman went off and fought Ali (the fans' favorite proposed fight).

Quarry lost to Frazier and was never again in position to win the Title.

 

That was around 1995 that the video here was filmed.... You can see how confused and unsure that Jerry Quarry is.... Freaky thing is, Quarry fought a 6 rounder and lost in 1992 out in Colorado when he was like age 47.... How the hell did he get a license?

MR.BILL

 

There feels like a moral conflict being a boxing fan at times. This is one of those times.

 

These MMA guys haven't had time to start showing "signs" but they will too.

 

:-(...truly a sad ending for a fighter who inspired millions.

 

This sort of thing always seems sad, but consider this:

Jerry Quarry left this world knowing that at his best he fought a Ring Magazine Fight of the Year with Joe Frazier, and was deemed good enough to be in the ring with the greatest heavyweight of all time not once, but twice.

Denny Moyer, who passed away last summer, was another case that seemed quite sad, but Moyer left us knowing that on the biggest night of his life, he scored a win over Ray Robinson, the best fighter who ever walked the earth.

For men like Quarry and Moyer mundane lives like yours and mine would be unbearable.

 

Very sad indeed. In 3.37 of the video, there a guy sitting ringside when Fortune falls, with ginger hair, barney wilson, died of the same thing-or something very similar.

 

Ali was the nr. 1 contender when he fought Foreman. Not only had he beat Quarry twice, but also the other guys (Eliis, Frazier) who had defeated Quarry. To try and claim that Quarry was robbed of a title shot is ridicolous.

 

Man, that's sad.... So sad about this sport that so many legends end up like this...

 

Mother****in right. This is sad to watch. I interviewed his bro in 89 and he was already seeing the signs. Then the comeback in 92 (?) was one of the most sick, demented things I have seen in this or any sport.

 

It's not just boxing but footballers seem to have some affects too. Even Jim Brown is not the same old Jim Brown, but that may not be because of football but just aging. Bill Russel is fine, though. I wonder how these MMA fighters joints will end up after getting kicked, punched, wrestling around, etc. But the idea that the threat of being KOed is higher and taking a sustained beating is less possible makes the sport more likely safer against brain damage. In a similar way to how boxing in some ways were safer in the smaller gloves era.

I hate this ****. Makes me feel bad, makes me feel sick for for having such a passion for a sport that breeds this kind of damage to its warriors. How much less primitive is it than the Romans watching gladiators kill each other for the sporting entertainment. I hate seeing fighters broken down too, and not taken care of. When I see a legend like Joe Frazier suffering makes me wish I could do something. Maybe I can?

I saw part of the 1992 fight. Was unbearably sick to witness. Quarry seemed much more conscious and coherent at that point. Three years later and he's almost a zombie.

 

Quarry was forced to fight Frazier in June 1974....3 months before Ali-Foreman.. & lost.

Quarry was suppose to get the shot after he destroyed Shavers in Dec. 1973 which was billed as a 12 round "title contender eliminator".

After the fight, commentator Floyd Patterson said Quarry should get the next shot at Foreman, and Quarry's Mgr Gil Clancy said they had a contract with Foreman, but Foreman keeps "disappearing".

Foreman instead fought Norton and moved on to Ali.

Foreman later admitted he "ducked" Quarry.

Note that Don King was Shavers' Mgr. for the Quary fight, but somehow King becomes the guy who puts together the "Rumble in the Jungle" 10 months later after he dumps Shavers.

Wherever Don King goes, things always "smell".

Note:
April 1974 the Ring Mag is pushing Quarry (Shavers fight?), but the June issue now asks
"Was Ali the real victor of Foreman-Norton?"..i.e. Quarry got jobbed and everybody knew it.

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Quarry vs Shavers quality tape:
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Was it just me or does Quarry seem and sound incoherant even after this fight?A very strange interview and Clancy takes over quickly.
Hmm.:think

 

Norton was the mandatory when Foreman faced him. Foreman has himself said: "I didn't want to face Norton, but I had to since he was the nr. 1 contender".

After Foreman had dispatched of Norton, Ali was the unquestioned top challenger with victories not only over Quarry but nearly all top contenders. Of the Ring's top 10 in early 1974 Ali had beaten Frazier, Norton, Quarry, Bugner and Bonavena. Quarry had only beaten Shavers and Lyle, and lost to Frazier and of course decisively to Ali.

How does this translate to Quarry deserving the shot? If he had been given it instead of Ali, it wouldd be Ali that was jobbed.