Jerry Quarry vs Jimmy Young

I like quarry.

 

OK,you 'like' quarry,but who wins lover man/bumdetour?. :nut (only joking.)

 

I've always been a fan of Jerry, but this fight would be all wrong for him. Jimmy Young frustrates and outpoints him easily.

 

Young was a Quarry sparring partner early in his career and it gave him great seasoning. He took a lot of beatings from Quarry in the gym from what I read some years back. But it also ended up making both of them better. In this one I would like Quarry to outhustle Young but look bad doing it. No one looked good in there against Young.

 

The Young from the Shavers fight thru the Norton fight was one of the top fighters in the world (very competitive with Lyle, Ali, Foreman, and others)

Jerry would have to really rough Young up early, and force Jimmy into the total defensive mode in order to get the decision in Quarry's favor.

 

You're right Longhorn. If Quarry, who tended to run hot and cold, came into the fight half-assed then Young would have definately boxed his ears off. Only a motivated and prepared Quarry - like the one who beat Mac Foster, Shavers, Mathis, etc. would beat Young.

 

Young in total defensive mode? How in the world is he gonna do that?


I think the Philadelphian would win a decision here. Quarry would force the action but miss most of the time and find himself on the end of a lot of jabs and counterpunches.

 

True. Quarry was a very good boxer when his opponent came at him, but he looked frankly useless against Ali. Young was very good at being at just the right range to seem available yet just in position to move away with little effort. He's a stylistic nightmare for Quarry, despite the fact that Quarry was arguably the more accomplished fighter overall. Young would win in a fight where many rounds were hard to score, but Young's accuracy and generalship would be the deciding factor in the scoring.

 

I think the Jimmy Young of the 1975-1977 period -- which was Young's prime -- would have outboxed the prime Jerry Quarry. Unanimous decision. It would be a boring fight, with Jimmy's elusiveness preventing Quarry from accomplishing anything. Young's left jab would keep him ahead on the scorecards.

I read Sardu's message, in which he points out that Young took beatings as Quarry's sparring partner. That's very interesting...I never knew that. However my guess is that Young sparred these sessions only very early in his career, before he developed the savvy he possessed in the 1975-77 period.

 

Young would be too slippery for Quarry to handle. Probably an easy decision win, But it would be Oh so painful to watch. Jimmy Young was about as exciting as watching grass grow!

 

Jerry Quarry all the way.
Check out Jimmy Young's record.
Has several losses to fighters who were not contenders.
And thats before and after Ali.
He never was in tip top shape.

 

Do observe his fights with George Foreman and Ron Lyle, while your at it. Long, tough battles in which Jimmy's cardiovascular endurance (and defensive genius) would be the ultimate deciding factor.

He even scored a knockdown over George Foreman, and that was the 1977 Fight of the Year, according to The Ring Magazine.

I'll pick Jimmy Young over Jerry Quarry; a faster, more technically sound boxer.

 

Furthermore, the interesting thing here too is that Young and Quarry have common opponents: Muhammad Ali and Ron Lyle.

Quarry won a UD over Lyle, and so did Young. But as far as the Muhammad Ali fights were concerned, Quarry was twice dominated, losing on two TKO's- Jimmy Young went the distance, and nearly won the fight.

 

I can't imagine Quarry beating Young over 15 rounds.