ron lyle and jerry quarry

Mostly it was that the competition was so stiff. Quarry, in my opinion, just wasn't big enough. Lyle was big and powerful, but he turned pro very late. He didn't start making noise until his 30's.

 

Nothing more then they came at a time where the champions were all time greats and a head above them both. Ron could be outboxed and many thought Jerry lost both bouts against a little past it Patterson. So he was at that level, clearly top 5 contender but not in the league of Frazier, Ali, and Foreman.

 

Neither were really that good. In today's era they both would be Klitschko KO victims.

 

The above is not worth two buckets of warm spit, on its own!

 

The deepest era the heavyweight division ever saw: late 1960s thru mid 1970s.

 

Lyle , in additional to starting very late, also suffered a terrible near fatal stabbing while in prison which in no doubt imputed him physically as well ...

 

Lyle turned pro at 30 and was already 33 when he fought quarry.

 

Watch the fight on youtube. Quarry was more aggressive and controlled the action on the inside.

 

As long as Klitschko kept the jab going Jerry would clearly lose, but Quarry was an excellent counter puncher with power and he would wait for an opening. Should W. go in for a ko and Jerry connected it could be all over. Jerry was a b+ fighter in an era of A and A+ champions.

 

Lyle started too late. Quarry didn't have the right men in his corner during his formative years. Also, Jerry had substance abuse issues.

 

jerry, never had drugs issues until career finished. Johnny flores & that ****ing daddy of his was his downfall though. That ****ers training regime ****ed his 3 boys up big time!! Read that jerry biography that cane out 3 yrs back & thad spencers too. VERY VERY SAD BOOKS!

 

No doubt about it!:good

 

I question the substance abusive when he was fighting matter.

 

Indeed. Both may well have won the WBA version had they came along in the eighties.