Jerry Quarry was a fantastic fighter.
He could stand in there with anybody in the world. Perennial Top 4 guy, just missing that little extra something that makes the elite Top 3. He wasn't gonna beat those Top 3, but he got his pound of flesh from every one of them....

Shavers is a fantastic interview. Very well spoken, articulate. Good sense of humor.
He earned that hardest hitter rep the hard way, in the ring, against the best in the world in perhaps the greatest era of Heavyweights, and if all those Great Legends say Earnie was the hardest hitter, ya gotta believe it.