Ken Norton vs Jerry Quarry - Part 1 of 3
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Jerry should have attacked hard after he put him on the ropes @ 4:21. Hurt and backing up was when Norton was a goner. Yeah, the Quarry that corked Mac Foster would have had N0rton outta there!
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His managers steered him away from big punchers between the title fight with Foreman and his fight with Shavers.
Norton was a total sucker for fast starting power punchers. Quarry was active but totally washed up. A prime Quarry creams Norton.
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Norton never ducked anybody Lyle and Shavers were big punchers but unskilled boxers Quarry was an active fighter if he didn't train properly for this fight, that's his fault Plenty of fighters take fights on short notice (18 in this case not 10) Norton was 35 when he fought Shavers and is remembered as one of the greats while Quarry is remembered as a journeyman tough guy who absorbed so much punishment during his career that he couldn't even feed or clothe himself towards the end of his life
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Quarry went to seed quickly. There is no question he was a warrior and had a great many fights and a great many wins. It's sad that things ended the way they did for him. This version of Quarry was really just a shell of his former self and he does not look remotely fight-fit here.
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Oscar Bonavena was to be in Quarrys place, but pulled out. Jerry Quarry said that he had only about two weeks to get ready for it.
It makes you wonder how Oscar would have done?
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@michaeljackson1978 yup
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i do not believe that Norton ducked anyone. It is true that he had trouble with big punchers but we would not have know that had he not faced them.
Norton never ducked anybody. He and Frazier were friends. Quarry would be champion fighting today's heavyweights
zulubro 9 months ago 3
@zulubro Norton ducked Ron Lyle. He ducked Shavers for as long as he could, and we found out why. He ducked the big hitters because he couldn't handle them. If Quarry had more than 10-14 days to prepare for this fight, he might have had a better chance. A younger Quarry would have taken Norton apart, as he did Shavers and Lyle.
funktron4 3 months ago