Jerry Quarry was an American boxer, also known by the nicknames “Irish” and “The Bellflower Bomber.” In the peak of his career, in the late 1960s, he was known as one of the most popular boxers in the world. He was born in Bakersfield, California, into a family of boxers. His father and older brothers had been associated with the sport. Jerry started boxing at the age of 5, and by the time he was in his late teenage years, he had started participating in professional boxing matches. After he began his professional boxing career, toward the mid-1960s, he fought some of the biggest names in international boxing, such as Floyd Patterson, Ken Norton, and Muhammad Ali. In the 66 fights that he fought in his professional career, he holds an amazing win:loss ratio of 53:9. Four of those matches were draws. What stands out is the fact that out of the 53 wins that he secured in his career, 34 were from knock-outs. He has also acted in TV series such as ‘Adam-12.’ In January 1999, he died of a cardiac arrest, after suffering from pneumonia.
