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brush

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2. Quarry was the 'gate keeper' for heavyweights during that era...

Reply to True Dough (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 05:14 PM

Mar 24

the golden age of the heavyweights. If a contender couldn't get past Quarry, who wasn't a bad fighter, then he couldn't get a fight with the likes of Ali, Frazier, Norton, George Foreman, Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers, Jimmy Young and a little later Larry Holmes.

What a line-up of great fighters...never been anything like it except maybe with the welter/middle weights of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Wifredo Benitez, Marvin Haggler and Thomas Hearns...around the same time.

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50 years ago today, March 24, 1975 ... [View all] Auggie Mar 24 OP

That undercard fight between Norton and Quarry True Dough Mar 24 #1

Quarry was the 'gate keeper' for heavyweights during that era... brush Mar 24 #2

+1 Auggie Mar 24 #3