Who left the better legacy. Jerry Quarry or Tim Witherspoon?

Quarry dominated the Big Bangers of his era, Spencer,Mac Foster,Lyle,Shavers, Witherspoon was an underacheiver

 

While Witherpsoon might have been a bit of an underachiever, he did achieve a lot.

Witherpsoon beat some good bangers too. Frank Bruno, Bonecrusher Smith, Greg Page, Renaldo Snipes, and Jorge Gonzalez.

Witherspoon also defeated some good boxers in Quick Tills, Tony Tubbs, and Carl Williams.

One difference between Witherspoon and Quarry was Witherspoon proved he could make a very good showing vs a prime all time great in Larry Holmes. Quarry was badly outclassed by Ali, and did not make the distance with Frazier.

In a head to head sense, I think Witherpsoon was a little better than Quarry. Witherspoon was a better boxer, a better puncher, a smarter fighter, and had the better chin / resistance to cuts. History never saw Witherpsoon vs Tyson. IMO, Witherspoon would have been Tyson’s toughest test in the 1980’s.

 

tim witherspoon:smoke:smoke:smoke:smoke

 

Definitely Jerry Quarry.

 

Witherspoon Wins - Bruno, Bonecrusher Smith, Tillis, Page, Tubbs, Carl Williams, Ribalta, Al Cole, Jorge Gonzalez

Qaurry Wins - Lyle, Shavers, Patterson (close), Mac Foster, Middleton

Prime Losses

Quarry - Frazier/Ali - both 1 sided - other losses to Norton, Chuvalo, Ellis, Machen

Pinklon Thmoas - Holmes/Thomas - both very close, Smith - already beat smith took him for granted and got caught cold - Thomas lost allot of fights at the end of his career when he was completely shot and these shouldnt be held against him

 

Witherspoon did better against the elite. He also has the overall better wins and broader range of wins

 

I like Tim, but Jerry fought in the better era, and I could see him being a champ in the 80's era.Can't say the same for Tim in the 70's era.

 

I think Spoon takes this.

How do you guys rank him all-time ?

 

Quarry..just because of the caliper of fighters he faced. Ali, Frazier, Ellis, Chuvalo, etc....And not to mention he decided to go head to head with Frazier..You gotta be one tough SOB to even try that ****...Ive always had alot of respect for Quarry.

 

These were about 500 pages in.

 

Spoon has the edge over Quarry in the legacy dept.... I mean, Christ, Spoon has two world title belts from the WBC and WBA while Quarry has zero... Quarry did technically face and lose to bigger names than what "The Spoon" faced, but Spoon fought and beat some bad mo-fo's, too..... I gotta go with Tim Spoon.....

MR.BILL

 

I see Jerry holding the WBA title at some point in the eighties.