Who Was The Best Of The 1970's and 80's Great White Hope?

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Jerry Quarry, Gerry Cooney, and Duane Bobick etc who was the best boxer who came under that insulting term "great white hope" back in the day and was it a fair description of the state of boxing during that era?
Were any of the great white hopes ever comparable with the top boxers today. Were they just in the most competitive era there has ever been?
I say Quarry was the best of that era in the seventies.

[JAB5239]

Quarry
Cooney
Bobick

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Quarry
Cooney
Bobick

if you have time jab (if you haven't recently) watch cooney vs holmes. What do you think? Holmes is one of the all time greatest heavyweights as he dominated a fiercely competitive era well. But what do you think of this fight? Cooney to me always made me wonder. He was great but somehow the ko by foreman in 1990 tarnished his reputation I feel. I don't think we should bring into a fighters summing up their last years as it always tarnishes our feelings about them. Look at iron mikes losses at his ending of career? He wasn't motivated and had a world of trouble to cope with outside the ring. Many boxers go on too long but we should focus on their golden years as they nearly all go on too long such is their fighting spirit.
Would you put quarry above cooney? It is a difficult one to decide.
On a lighter side Bugner was also considered a great white hope at one stage!!!
By the way jab that fight of yours you pm'd me was brilliant you are a true warrior!

[Biledriver]

Quarry
Cooney
Bobick

Quarry was a damn good fighter. Cooney was a dangerous puncher and not much else. Bobick was all hype and little substance. Were there any others back then with any name recognition?

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Quarry was a damn good fighter. Cooney was a dangerous puncher and not much else. Bobick was all hype and little substance. Were there any others back then with any name recognition?

Please think for a minute, you don't get to the highest level in hw boxing on planet earth with hungry men in gyms all over the planet desperate beyond words to succeed and win with not much else. you don't go 13 rounds with holmes if you have not much else. for God's sake think girl!
We need to get away from arguing everyone was crap except tyson and ali. There are degrees of greatness and we are discussing the all time greats so you are selling yourself short by just making sweeping statements to end a debate stone dead.
All of these "great white hopes" were magnificent boxers.........and joe bugner!
I forgot to mention tommy morrison and a few others. Some hailed morrison as the great white hope and it was pushed a lot in the usa as he was a golden boy. Do you think quarry could have beaten morrsion? I await willie's response and willow and queeny and bill. I am going to hazard a guess that the consensus will be that morrison will be number one. I think cooney in his prime edges it against quarry. Cooney in his prime was amazing.

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if you have time jab (if you haven't recently) watch cooney vs holmes. What do you think? Holmes is one of the all time greatest heavyweights as he dominated a fiercely competitive era well. But what do you think of this fight? Cooney to me always made me wonder. He was great but somehow the ko by foreman in 1990 tarnished his reputation I feel. I don't think we should bring into a fighters summing up their last years as it always tarnishes our feelings about them. Look at iron mikes losses at his ending of career? He wasn't motivated and had a world of trouble to cope with outside the ring. Many boxers go on too long but we should focus on their golden years as they nearly all go on too long such is their fighting spirit.
Would you put quarry above cooney? It is a difficult one to decide.
On a lighter side Bugner was also considered a great white hope at one stage!!!
By the way jab that fight of yours you pm'd me was brilliant you are a true warrior!

Cooney never reached his potential. Maybe he never had the spirit for it. When he fought Foreman he had been inactive for a few years and doing more drinking than training. To bad, because I loved the way he fought and the raw power he had. The Holmes fight ruined him. He wasn't ready to take that big a leap on boxing B oggest stage.

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Quarry was a damn good fighter. Cooney was a dangerous puncher and not much else. Bobick was all hype and little substance. Were there any others back then with any name recognition?

Gerrie Coetzee comes to mind. Lost most of the times he stepped up against the best much like Quarry and Cooney.

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For a split second I thought about Tommy Morrison, then came back to my senses.

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Quarry was a damn good fighter. Cooney was a dangerous puncher and not much else. Bobick was all hype and little substance. Were there any others back then with any name recognition?

- - Bobick defeated Cubano legend Stevenson and KOed skinny Lar in the Olympic qualifiers and won bronze in the Olympics.

Thus Ali and tubby Lar who was still skinny then ducked his Ring rating as a pro…

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- - Bobick defeated Cubano legend Stevenson and KOed skinny Lar in the Olympic qualifiers and won bronze in the Olympics.

Thus Ali and tubby Lar who was still skinny then ducked his Ring rating as a pro…

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