I love sports history and looking at a particular date when an event happened.Today's date sticks out for me.Exactly 28 years ago to the day,Wednesday May,11,1977 Ken Norton KO'ed Duane Bobick at 58 secounds of the first round at Madison Square Garden.Norton was known as a bit of a White Hope killer as he has beaten a number of signifigant white fighters in his career like Boone Kirkman,Jerry Quarry,Tex Cobb and the aforementioned Bobick.Flash forward to May 11,1981 and Norton was looking to add another White Hope to his list,this time it was Gerry Cooney.The fight was held at Madison Square Garden the site of the Bobick execution as well as Quarry's.The fight was strikingly similar to the Bobick fight,but in reverse.Cooney scored the first round KO in just 54 secounds,it was sweet revenge,man.I may sound a little deranged,but when Cooney had Norton against the ropes and was teeing off on him,landing several heavy shots on a defenseless Norton,I loved it.Whack,whack and whack,it was great.A close-up of Norton showed just how out he was.Memories.
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May 11
- Thread starter speedster
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It's too bad Quarry couldn't have fought Norton earlier in his career.Quarry was pretty well toast by the time they fought and would have really exposed Norton's flaws had they fought,say in 1972.To me Norton was a good fighter,at the same time,the most over-rated of the so-called " greats." I really think had Bobick not got hit in the throat buy a Norton shot,he also could have taken him.Instead,Bobick goes down,loses all confidence after that and his career was pretty much over.Bobick and Quarry might have won their fights with Norton much in the same fashion as Cooney,Foreman and Shavers did against Norton,as in an early KO.You keep Norton backing up and he can't do a thing.Like a said,over-rated.
Norton was SHOT when he took on Cooney anybody who has followed boxing knew that . And just for the record Cooney would probably have beaten a prime Norton too Quarry wouldalways lose to norton Big powerpunchers where Nortons weakness not counterpunchers like Quarry.
Your a sick piece of sh*t if you like seeing a defenceless fighter wailed on just because he beat a fighter you like Speedster.
I loved how Holmes took revenge for Norton by Beating down Cooney.
Actually i thought it was agreat perfomance by Holmes and i thought that Cooney fought pretty well.
But then again i am not some sicko who likes seeing peopel hurt because they have a different skincolor.
Your a sick piece of sh*t if you like seeing a defenceless fighter wailed on just because he beat a fighter you like Speedster.
I loved how Holmes took revenge for Norton by Beating down Cooney.
Actually i thought it was agreat perfomance by Holmes and i thought that Cooney fought pretty well.
But then again i am not some sicko who likes seeing peopel hurt because they have a different skincolor.