Quarry vs Shavers

[sonnyboyx2]

Madison Square Gardens July 25th 1973 "Battle of the Big Punchers".. Earnie Shavers 45-2 (44)KOs - Jerry Quarry 45-6 (26) KOs ... Both fighters were extremely confident going into this fight, Shavers had just burst into the big time with a stunning one-round KO victory over former champion Jimmy Ellis and was predicting another easy and quick victory over veteran Jerry Quarry...here below are a couple of newspaper articles from 1973... if you have seen the fight what is your opinion.

http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?...+shavers&hl=en

http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?...+shavers&hl=en

http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?...ers+1973&hl=en

[boxing boy]

Shavers whiskers off set his punching power.If he had a chin he would have gone down as a great fighter,and would have been Heavyweight Champion of the world.

It was his whiskers,not so much Quarry's punching power.

[StarshipTrooper]

Shavers whiskers off set his punching power.If he had a chin he would have gone down as a great fighter,and would have been Heavyweight Champion of the world.

It was his whiskers,not so much Quarry's punching power.

Not to mention his lack of stamina and technique. His handlers from early on focused on his power to the exclusion of other aspects of the game.

Poet

[TheGreatA]

Shavers didn't take the best punch, but I thought his KO loss to Quarry was more so about his lack of survival skills. Quarry hit him with everything but the ring stool yet Shavers only stood still and took all of it. He should have tried to hold on. Quarry was a very good counter puncher and caught the aggressive Shavers early, but I feel a more experienced Shavers would have probably survived the first round.

[sonnyboyx2]

Shavers didn't take the best punch, but I thought his KO loss to Quarry was more so about his lack of survival skills. Quarry hit him with everything but the ring stool yet Shavers only stood still and took all of it. He should have tried to hold on. Quarry was a very good counter puncher and caught the aggressive Shavers early, but I feel a more experienced Shavers would have probably survived the first round.

sorry but i dont agree... Quarry attacked him like Jack Dempsey and got him out of there, referee Arthur Mercante knew that Shavers would have gotten injured if he let it go on, the fight showed that Quarry was "Top Class" and Shavers was "Class C"... even if Shavers survived that first round it was only a matter of time before he got knocked out.. its not punching power that counts but boxing ability and Shavers was not in the same league as Jerry Quarry and the same can be said for Ron Lyle & George Foreman... Quarry would have destroyed Foreman and IMO Foreman knew it, Quarry had a chin of granite

[TheGreatA]

sorry but i dont agree... Quarry attacked him like Jack Dempsey and got him out of there, referee Arthur Mercante knew that Shavers would have gotten injured if he let it go on, the fight showed that Quarry was "Top Class" and Shavers was "Class C"... even if Shavers survived that first round it was only a matter of time before he got knocked out.. its not punching power that counts but boxing ability and Shavers was not in the same league as Jerry Quarry and the same can be said for Ron Lyle & George Foreman... Quarry would have destroyed Foreman and IMO Foreman knew it, Quarry had a chin of granite

He only attacked Shavers after Shavers went against the ropes. Quarry was not an aggressive fighter but he was all over Shavers from that point onwards.



Quarry gets to Shavers with a left to the body at 3:35 and then just pummels him with Shavers trapped on the ropes after a counter right hand.

I never saw Shavers make the mistake of going against the ropes again, until he ran out of stamina in fights that is. He got away with it in an earlier fight against Ellis where he was also beating pummeled but not against Quarry. It was he who usually trapped his opponents against the ropes in later fights. No question in my mind that he improved after this, not that he was ever a great fighter by any means.

[clinikillz]

Overrated win for Quarry. Shavers was a wild-swinging, one-dimensional fighter all throughout his career. Any above-average boxer with a good chin would've taken Shavers out.

[boxing boy]

sorry but i dont agree... Quarry attacked him like Jack Dempsey and got him out of there, referee Arthur Mercante knew that Shavers would have gotten injured if he let it go on, the fight showed that Quarry was "Top Class" and Shavers was "Class C"... even if Shavers survived that first round it was only a matter of time before he got knocked out.. its not punching power that counts but boxing ability and Shavers was not in the same league as Jerry Quarry and the same can be said for Ron Lyle & George Foreman... Quarry would have destroyed Foreman and IMO Foreman knew it, Quarry had a chin of granite

Foreman would have destroyed Quarry worse than Norton did.

Foreman did not have a weak chin like Shavers.