This matchup has been done many times, but not in awhile. Anyway, does Terry outbox Tito, or does Tito starch him?
We'll never know. Tito ducked Norris like he had HIV. Coward. He wouldn't even fight a washed up chinny fighter.
This would have been a dangerous fight for both fighters. Tito had the better chin and I think that is the difference. But who knows.
Norris could conceivably fight a perfect fight and use his speed and movement to beat Trinidad, but I really doubt it. Trinidad was an accurate puncher who would eventually catch Norris with something clean. Besides, Norris had a bit too much brawler in him for his own good. Trinidad rises from the usual 2nd round KD to stretch Norris out later.
you got that one backwards. It was Norris who pulled out of their scheduled June 1997 (then rescheduled Aug 1997) fight, choosing THAT time to instead bolt from King and sue him and his old manager. Terry never wanted the fight. He initially agreed to it only because at the time it was his most lucrative option, but then had a change of heart once Oscar de la ATM moved up to welterweight. That's when he defected to Top Rank, only he was too shot to get past Keith Mullings. Prime vs. prime - Tito climbs off of the canvas to knock him out midway through. If it happened in 1997 - Terry doesn't make it out of the 3rd.
I think Norris outpoints Trinidad along the way to knocking him out, sometime around 10 or 11. If we're assuming primes and Norris fights his best fight...he beats Tito. He was a better fighter, when "on", added to the fact that his skills/style match-up very favourably with the more plodding, slower handed Trinidad.
Trinidad knocks Norris out in 8 rounds after probably going down himself early between rounds 2 and 4. Norris had more talent, but Tito was stronger, more powerful, and had more heart. He would pressure Norris into submission before rendering him helpless, forcing a stoppage from the referee. Trinidad KO 8
Trinidad had been knocked down and hurt before in fights against Vargas, Reid, Campas, Carr, and Stephens and had shown the ability to fight through the adversity and come back to win. Norris never showed me this ability. When he was hurt, the fight was usually over.
Norris was seriously hurt against Waters, more hurt than Trinidad ever was in the fights he came back to win. The most hurt I've seen Trinidad when came back to win was aganst Cortes, and Norris was more hurt in round 2 against Waters, IMO.
Yeah, there's that (which is really an obviously example, that leads me to think this guy has seen fuck all of Norris) and then there's basically every fight he had, post Simon Brown, where he was hurt at some point, in basically all of them. He NEVER laid down. To believe that heart was one of Norris' weaknesses is simply one of the worst comments you could possibly make. Suspect chin? Suspect brain? Dirty? Sure. All of these things were problems with Norris. But a fighting heart? GTFOH.
Yeah and you have nothing to base it on whatsoever. You only point things out that are right or wrong. You don't point out opinions, with no merit behind them at all.
