Muhammad Ali, simply 'The Greatest', dead at 74

USFREEDOM911 said:
After Ali's first fight with Norton, he had this to say:
“Ken Norton is the best man I’ve ever fought," Ali said. "He is better than Joe Frazier, Jerry Quarry, Sonny Liston—any of them.”
Norton was considered to have no chance against Ali and Norton ended up breaking Ali's jaw and Ali ended up fighting the next 10 rounds with the jagged edges poking into his mouth.
Ali's corner man, said that at the end of each round he had to shake the mouth piece to get all the blood out of it and into the bucket.

For the second Ali / Norton fight Ali trained for over 14 weeks, more then he ever trained for anyone else, at that time.

Looking at Norton; he looked powerful enough to actually kill another fighter, if he really connected.

Even though Ali won the next two fights, he always had respect for Norton.
Norton died in September of 2013, at the age of 70.

I would love to see them greeting each other, in the afterlife.
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I remember that fight. Norton was a beast. What a physical specimen and what conditioning how the hell did Ali last as long as he did with a broken jaw.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I remember that fight. Norton was a beast. What a physical specimen and what conditioning how the hell did Ali last as long as he did with a broken jaw.
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Shear will power.
Looking at Norton, I really thought he would beat Ali in the second fight and there are those who think the judges were wrong in their "split" decision.

I wonder what Norton's BMI was in the first and second fight?
 
As a boxer he was without peer.
It's sad to see what became of boxing in his wake. Not his doing apart from the rebirth his career made of it.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Shear will power.
Looking at Norton, I really thought he would beat Ali in the second fight and there are those who think the judges were wrong in their "split" decision.

I wonder what Norton's BMI was in the first and second fight?
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He pretty much had a reputation like Evander Holyfield in their early careers. Work out warriors in the gym who were really light heavyweight fighters, with journeyman ring skills moving up in weight out of their league. Both proved the critics wrong.
 
Celticguy said:
As a boxer he was without peer.
It's sad to see what became of boxing in his wake. Not his doing apart from the rebirth his career made of it.
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It's sad that there's not a true star in the heavyweight division and that the center of pro boxing is no longer in the U.S.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
It's sad that there's not a true star in the heavyweight division and that the center of pro boxing is no longer in the U.S.
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I think the corruption pretty well killed boxing especially in the heavyweight division. I'm shocked the lighter weight ones survived but they are showier I guess that helps.
It lives on as MMA at least until that gets exposed.
 
Celticguy said:
I think the corruption pretty well killed boxing especially in the heavyweight division. I'm shocked the lighter weight ones survived but they are showier I guess that helps.
It lives on as MMA at least until that gets exposed.
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I think too many boxers ending there careers with CTE has had far more to do with the decline of boxing. That and the big money now available in other sports. MMA is a minor league sport and has the same fundamental problem attracting top level elite talent boxing has. To many other ways an elite athlete can make a lot of money without risking brain damage.
 
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