Ali vs Norton 3

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  1. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lyle was badly hurt and not fighting back effectively at all. I don't think that fight's stoppage was particularly controversial. Lyle was done. Just me.
     
  2. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I think the 60s Ali would have stopped Kenny in 14. And yes, I am keeping in mind that Kenny was a great foil for boxers.
     
  3. Mendoza

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    He was on his feet, in the lead and Ali was close to punching himself out. It was a protest stoppage. There was no rematch
     
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  4. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I could be wrong, but I thought he wasn't effectively defending himself. At all.
     
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  5. William Walker

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    I'm just sad it wasn't a better fight! Stylistically, it should have been a really good fight.
     
  6. KidDynamite

    KidDynamite Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Just watched the stoppage again

    I think it was legitimate ... He knocked Lyle around from one side of the ring to the other and Lyle threw nothing of significance back and was really getting nailed.

    If a boxer is no longer able to defend himself and his health is at risk then the referee should stop the fight ... Lyle was getting hit by everything ... He didn't fight back, he barely had his guard up if anything, and he couldn't even clinch Ali ... Reasonable stoppage
     
  7. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    You're not.
     
  8. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I'm with you totally. IMO,Ron could have been badly hurt had the fight continued.
     
  9. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Lyle was completely defenseless. Even Vince Voltage, the number 1. Ali detractor on this forum by quite some margin agrees that Lyle was defenseless, and had nothing left.
     
  10. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Ali couldn't outbox him.
     
  11. swagdelfadeel

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    Funnily enough, history books will show that's exactly what he did.
     
  12. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Well yea that is the case with all bad decisions.
     
  13. rodney

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    Norton sucked.
     
  14. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Subjective. Not in my opinion, I had it tied going into the last round which Norton admits he gave away.
     
  15. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    That's not what Ali's jaw said.