My timeline was off. I believe there were rumors of them fighting around '93 but they didn't sign the fight until '97. They had one fight each before they were to meet and Norris lost his so there went the fight. I can't find anything that they were to fight around '93 so it was just buzz.
I liked Terry. I liked his style, and I liked his mean streak. He was an extremely talented offensive technician and he had REAL skill to back his speed - not Berto/Thurman/Khan leap amateur bullshit. But I think he fell short of being a great fighter and I agree w/McDogg that his resume was flawed. I'd favor him over every current 147-154 guy though.
While he doesn't have a win over an ATG in is prime, Norris has beaten tons of good fighters, and absurdly shouting ''shot'' for everyone one of them just won't cut it. Deconstructing a guy record is the easiest play in the game. Shame on you And at blaming him for fighting WW. You're the same guy that continuously claims that boxing should go back to the original eight (plus maybe cruiserweight) and that there's too many divisions. Get a grip of youself, you're all over the place
Apparently Joe Gatti and his team were doing a lot of barking at the weigh in trying to get under Norris's skin. After he destroyed Gatti in about eighty seconds, you could hear Norris say to someone "He shouldn't have been talking all that shit. Hell, I tried to kill him."
Norris became extremely arrogant around 1993. He was convinced he was the best fighter in the world. When he stopped Maurice Blocker, he was doing a lot of talking and taunting. And after the fight he challenged JC Chavez to a fight at 147 to prove he was the best in the world. He said "Chavez is a female, a coward if he refused to meet me at 147! I took Taylor out in 4! I'm taking Chavez out in 2!" Chavez used to drink beer (Tecate) in camp and still make 140 comfortably so he wasn't interested in a move to 147. Norris then appeared on the Chavez-Holligan undercard months later against Simon Brown and got battered. The funniest thing about that (besides the big upset and Norris stumbling back to his corner yelling "Damn!" like he was mad at his legs for not working after he just git his temple punched in, was they cut to a camera in Chavez's dressing room to show Chavez and his team watching the fight and laughing their asses off.
Correction: He had two fights between Blocker and Brown. But nevertheless he had challenged and insulted Chavez then got his ass whupped on a Chavez undercard. On top of that, Brown was Blocker's best friend (despite them fighting each other earlier in their careers.)
Not only is this an incredibly weak response in terms of the content of what I wrote but there’s also the weird straw ad hominem in the second part that’s totally baffling ... when is the last time the topic of “too many/too few/just right” weight classes even came up? If any of us, including me have talked about that more than once in the last ten years I’d be shocked let alone anyone talking about it continuously
the only extremely weak post in this thread was your ''''dissection'' of Norris resume. Shades of Kid dynamite saying every ali opponents were past it or crap. So you never claimed that there's to many weightclasses in boxing? Your hypocrisy knows no bound
Kid Dynamite? It’s 2020 right now His thing was to list fighters and then say false things about each If you’d like to challenge the content, bring it right now you’re just doing your usual brainless contrarian garbage
KD was first guy and only poster in history who was tooooooooooooooooooo pro-Tyson for me. He and Esk took Tyson groupery to new levels and made objective Tyson groupies like myself look bad.
Stop avoiding the question trump junior. did you ever say (and do you still think), that there is too many divisions in boxing?
I’m still waiting for you to actually address the content of what I posted, Bonhomme you’re just a roidtard that flame-wars with hot takes, ad hominem attacks and goalpost moving you’re Double L with goofy English and a worse sense of humor. If you choked to death on poutine tomorrow, nobody would give a fuck
Once again, you're proving that you're an hypocrite There's nothing to address in that pathetic post of yours. It's a pot pourri of baseless accusations, weird (if not senseless) arguments, double standards and incoherent rambling
First, there's no evidence that Norris could make 147 and if he did how he'd handle the weight drain. He did weigh in at 151 a few times. That's still not 147. Secondly, if they did fight at 147, Norris would have every advantage (youth, height, reach and being naturally bigger fighter.) Chavez was not a big guy at 140. I realize later in his career he went to welterweight but at the time it didn't make much sense. I don't hate Terry Norris but that first fight with Simon Brown was funny. To see someone come in so full of confidence like there was zero chance he could lose get turned into a weeble wobble for three and a half rounds by a blown up welterweight.
He made 149 for the Taylor fight without trouble, I think he could have made 147. Agreed with the rest of your post
As a man, Chavez is a punk. Great, great fighter but a punk who needed help from his daddys Don King and Jose Sulamain as well as a dirty referee in three of his biggest fights and he never owned up to it.
