Jerry Quarry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American boxer
Date of Birth: 15-May-1945
Place of Birth: Bakersfield, California, United States
Date of Death: 03-Jan-1999
Profession: boxer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Jerry Quarry
- Jerry Quarry (May 15, 1945 – January 3, 1999), nicknamed "Irish" or "The Bellflower Bomber", was an American heavyweight boxer.
- During the peak of his career from 1968 to 1971, Quarry was rated by Ring magazine as the most popular fighter in the sport.
- His most famous bouts were against world champions Floyd Patterson, Jimmy Ellis, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton.Quarry had over 200 fights in his amateur career.
- He turned professional in 1965 and finished with a record of 53–9–4, with wins over some of the best heavyweights of his era.
- Quarry was undersized compared to many of his rivals, but very durable and had a great left hook.
- A recurring problem was that he would sustain cuts easily, which caused many of his fights to be brought to an end.
- He retired from boxing in 1975, but had comeback fights in 1977, 1983 and 1992.
- Quarry had a brief acting career, appearing in a number of television roles, and also played a recurring character on the show Adam-12.
- Towards the end of his life the punishment sustained in his boxing career caused Quarry to become a shell of himself.
- He developed chronic traumatic encephalopathy and required assistance to perform everyday tasks.
- He was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1995, where he gave a slurred speech.
- He died in 1999, at the young age of 53. Quarry was from an Irish American family of agricultural laborers in California.
- His younger brothers Mike and Bobby Quarry also boxed.
- Mike was a high-ranked contender in the light heavyweight division Jerry's older brother James was the only Quarry brother not to box.
- James became a carer for Jerry and set up the Jerry Quarry Foundation, a non-profit that assists disabled boxers.
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