This article sums it up fairly well, I think. I will copy the last part. Your comments about ALI are a propos.
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Quarry had the misfortune of contending in an era of three great champions. He had defeated Patterson, Buster Mathis, Thad Spencer, Bob Foster, Lyle and Shavers. Had his back been healthy, he would have beaten Ellis, and his loss to George Chuvalo was a fluke. He thoroughly beat Lyle, who had Foreman down twice and nearly out. He halted Shavers in one round, the same Shavers who nearly stopped Holmes and did away with Norton in one round. Foster was a knockout machine until Quarry put him away and Spencer was widely regarding as Ali's successor until Quarry punished him and put him away.
Quarry would have beaten Max Baer, James J. Braddock, Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, Patterson (even in his prime), Ingemar Johansson, John Tate, Michael Dokes, Greg Page and certainly Buster Douglas.
Mike Tyson, at his brutal best, would have had problems with Quarry's iron chin and skilled counterpunching.
Quarry would have enjoyed a comfortable reign in the early and middle 1930's as well as the late 1940's and early 1950's. He certainly would have captured WBA, WBC or IBF belt in the 1980's.
Foreman spoke volumes when he ranked Quarry on his website as the greatest fighter never to become champion. Big George said, "had he punched with Ellis and boxed Frazier he would have been champion. When I was Heavyweight Champion of the World, I purposely dodged him."
I think Quarry would have knocked him out!"
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