Sugar Ray Leonard v Terry Norris prime for prime

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  1. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Keith Mullings, Dana Rosenblatt and Laurent Boudouani must have been ATG's to beat the man who beat Leonard.
     
  2. Flash24

    Flash24 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    So like a internet bully, you insult when others simply don't agree with your opinion? Its easy to do hiding behind a computer screen. If you can't handle others opnions why are YOU here?. Nothing you've said makes any real since to anyone who know and love the fight game. But just like the bully you are you attack with nonsense. In my case grammer. Is this a fight game website or a writing web site? Look little boy,just like every bully your weak, and a COWARD. I see them every day and they sound just like you. But in your case its easy to get away with your on the Internet. Get over yourself. Because Im sure everyone here is over you.
     
  3. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  4. Foxy 01

    Foxy 01 Boxing Junkie banned

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    FACT.

    Leonard had 2 title fights at 154. He won against Kalule, and was shut out by Norris.

    FACT.

    Leonard won 8 world title fights by stoppage.

    FACT.

    6 of them were at 147.

    FACT

    1 of those was against an ATG LIGHTWEIGHT

    FACT

    1 was against Kalule at 154

    FACT.

    1 was a meaningless catch weight fight.

    FACT.

    Norris stopped 14 guys in world title fights.

    FACT

    All of them were at 154.

    Like shooting fish in a barrel.
     
  5. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  6. Foxy 01

    Foxy 01 Boxing Junkie banned

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    Get one thing straight sonny boy. I couldn't give a flying fuk about 99% of the posters on here's opinions or their fan boys lifestyle.

    The ones I do care about argue their points, based on facts and statistics. They don't offer up nonsensical hero worship in the way insignificant vermin like you do. You talk about bullies and cowards, you are scum that hangs on the coat tails of others, because you haven't got a brain of your own worth a cup of cold p!ss.

    You haven't answered one alternative viewpoint offered up by the non Leonard fan boys because you can't. There is nothing for you to base your re****ed fan boyism of Leonard above 147 on. It simply doesn't exist. All that is there is the beating of the sh!te Kalule, and the humiliation at the hands of Norris.

    Get over it you nut hugging freak.
     
  7. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    and even one of those he won by stoppage looked very questionable to me - the Benitez fight

    Not trying to bring the man down but that tko looked as fishy as Ray Leonard being handed two titles from Lalonde fight

    everything he does seems so contrived
     
  8. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Funny how all the mistakes you all make seem to go against Terry

    Almost as if Terry has too much going in his favor, that you have to find other ways to take him down a notch

    like the chin theory

    You make that up too

    Let me point out what you've actually been doing all along. By you, I mean you and others that take this same view about Terry's chin.

    You ignore the fact that it was Terry that forced that knockdowns of Ray

    Not once have you ever acknowledged it.

    You don't DARE acknowledge it

    and why? you do it so that you can continue your excuses that are loaded with dishonesty, and bluff your way thru

    Not only did Terry score both knockdowns, Ray didnt score any

    and he had 12 rounds to do it

    That shows he couldnt

    nor could he come close to it

    he couldnt do it in their fight

    and he couldnt do it in ten fights

    Not only that, but ray never once had him hurt

    and those are the facts! :smoke

    in fact, terry had Ray hurt in the first with a body shot

    at least twice more in the third

    again in the ninth, and again on the tenth, both times badly

    Towards the end of the 11th, again, Ray had his chance as he strung together 6 straight to Terry's head

    Terry's reaction?

    He seemed not to have noticed, and floated away like a butterfly after a mild spring rain

    I know you guys want to do your best to deprive Terry of a well deserved victory that came thru by Terry's hard work and his trainer's expert strategizing

    but the results are as we all saw them and like it or not, we all have to accept the fact that Terry was far superior (as reflected by the scoring of 120-106) :deal
     
  9. Foxy 01

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  10. Cecil

    Cecil Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I've never said any of the things in my posts you've stated above.
    All I seem to be guilty of is that in my opinion Leonard would beat Norris, it's not an outrageous concept, it's not a put down of Norris's abilities, he was a good fighter I just think prime for prime Leonard was better.
     
  11. Man_Machine

    Man_Machine Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Which strategy was that? How to box a corpse?

    Hardly Sun Tzu-esque...
     
  12. Perry

    Perry Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Norris once he started to fight live competition was very beatable. He lost seven of his last 36 bouts and was koed 4 times. He had a glass chin! His first 20 pro bouts were against very low level competition but he still managed to lose two of these bouts.

    Norris has one of the worst records I've seen for a top pro champion. His record pales in comparison to Leonard. Leonards win over Hearns trumps anything Norris did at any time in his entire career.
     
  13. Perry

    Perry Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The numbers don't lie. Leonard far surpasses Norris. Norris was lucky he fought a faded Leonard in his next to last bout.

    Really can't compare the two. Norris was a regional amateur champion. Leonard an international amateur champion and Olympic gold medalist.

    Norris beaten NINE times. Leonard THREE times.

    Norris koed four times. Leonard stopped only once and in his final fight.

    Norris first dozen bouts were against nobodies. Pro debuts, no wins, few bouts. (Combined record 23-12). Leonard in contrast fought pros in comparison. (Combined record 183-75)

    Norris champion in one division. Leonard champion in five different weight divisions.

    Add to it Leonard fought a who's who of ATG champions. Hearns, Duran,Hagler, Benitez. And he has a win against every one.
     
  14. robert ungurean

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  15. Foxy 01

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    They certainly don't, and Norris stopped 14 guys in world title fights all of which were Light Middleweights.

    Leonard managed to stop ONLY 8, one of which was a former Lightweight, another was a pathetic catch weight, and the other 6 were at Welter.