Ike Quartey vs. Mike McCallum @ 154

Is this a bridge too far for the jab-master Quartey?

 

Too much indeed.

McCallum would destroy Quartey who was too basic for him.

I don't think Quartey would beat the likes of Trinidad, Jackson, or Norris at 154 lbs, let alone MCCallum who at his best is a top 3 154 pounder.

 

Quartey takes a steady beating here

 

Never rated Quartey other than a solid-but-nothing-special-at-all 147'er.
Who did he fight? Lots of big names.
Who did he actually beat? Oba Carr? Vince Phillips?

McCallum gives him a steady beating here ::

 

Quartey's just tough enough and good enough to get himself hospitalised for several days

 

Ike gets dismantled and stopped in around 9 or 10.

 

The welter Quartey has the strength and jab and early durability to give McCallum a rough go, p4p. Mccallum still wins. 154 Ike was rusty and slappy and sloppy. McCallum beats him up.

 

I don't think 154 was a size issue for Ike. He was a very big welter and had the frame to carry 154. He simply spent his prime at 147.

I'm usually harsh on Ike, but I do think the mid-90s Quartey would have put a whuppin on Vargas.

 

I think Vargas beats any Quartey

 

Put it this way - an old, faded, extremely rusty Ike took 3-4 rounds off Vargas.

I think the 94-96 Ike would fare MUCH better than that.

 

i dunno that ike was so old or rusty

 

Ike hadn't fought in nearly two years and was coming off malaria when he fought Vargas. The general perception of Ike being a lazy slappy puncher is entirely based on him flailing back at DLH in the 12th and the way he looked against Vargas, and he was coming off a long layoff against DLH as well.

 

I really liked Quartey, but Mccallum is clearly a few levels above him

 

I don't know anything about the malaria thing but it was 14 months and he had just turned 31 with only 36 fights. Difficult to know how much to read into that