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Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: IronDioPriest on September 18, 2013, 07:43:59 PM
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Former champ Ken Norton dies (http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/9691147/ken-norton-former-heavyweight-champion-dies)
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I remember his fight with Ali where he broke Ali's jaw
I consider the 1950s, 60s and early 70s as the Golden Age of heavyweights in boxing.
There were so many great ones
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And the norton fight with Holmes is a classic.
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Yeah, once we got past this era seems like a lot of punks rolled into boxing and I really didn't follow it much then, it was all mouth and showboating and overrated boxers...and even though I would always root for Anybody vs Clay (I never liked that draft-dodging Islamo-convert and don't like using the Islamo-name!)...the quality of opponents he faced like Norton et al shows how hard he was to beat in the ring. For a boxer I guess getting to 70 isn't half bad, pretty young otherwise though. My uncles were golden glove boxers, my father was a scrapper, I've had my share of impromptu matches...but seeing guys in their 50's & 60's in the old folks home when visiting relatives...finding out they were boxers...NFL guys really have no idea what a lot of concussions are, they really don't.
Ken Sr was a Marine, no dodger there. ::USA::
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Regardless of one's feelings about Ali/Clay, he sacrificed a lot by not going to the army.
Not a lot would make that sacrifice on our convictions.
(BTW, back then I was a draft dodger too
Not something I'm proud of today)
Without the ban, there may not have been a Joe Frazier, for example.
Ali was a marketing expert outside the ring and injected life into boxing, in general, and the heavyweight division. After him, boxing fluorished in the lighter divisions. Leonard, Hagler and Hearns and even some of the really skinny guys.
Holmes was hardly qualified to carry Ali's jockstrap. Great jab no power.
For two decades Ali was boxing and boxing was Ali
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I remember his fight with Ali where he broke Ali's jaw
I consider the 1950s, 60s and early 70s as the Golden Age of heavyweights in boxing.
There were so many great ones
Too many great fighters at one time and only one championship belt. They could all have been champions.