Ken Norton vs these boxers

Ws

 

Loses to Tokyo Douglas, beats Williams and probably Tucker.

 

I would honestly give him an excellent chance of defeating all three. I think the styles matchup largely favors him

 

None of these guys are big punchers so he has a shot.

 

Loses to all of them.

 

I think that being a buzz saw for boxers might be a little overstated. He barely got by Young, he did beat Ali who wasn’t at his best, Ali in the second bout won but it was close, third bout Ali was shot and he still cut it very close with him, to me Holmes won clearly. Ken seems like he just does enough to win. On the official record he’s beaten Jimmy Young just, Ali at 221lbs and lost to a shot Ali, that one’s very arguable but if Norton was as big a piece of kryptonite as it says on the tin then he shouldn’t have had such a big issue. He could win all three but it’s likely very close.

 

I’ve heard Douglas described as very hard hitting many times. He’s demonstrated it before, I wouldn’t be personally surprised if he cracked Norton, Norton however was excellent at taking away an opponents straight punches, I haven’t watched a lot of Busters fights in a long time but I remember him as mostly a 1,2 guy from the Tyson fight.

 

I don’t get the hype for Tokyo Douglas he beat a version of Tyson that was completely distracted, didn’t train at all and his corner couldn’t even control the swelling to his left eye due to incompetence

Even then Mike still scored a knockdown and almost got the win

Busters whole career is defined by just one fight he happened to face Tyson at about 20% his usual self and this guy is favoured over Norton who beat Ali atleast once and took a prime Holmes to the wire

 

Care to elaborate?

 

Not really - Tyson got outsmarted using flaws that were around since his best days. Sometimes the great fighter losses to a good one.

 

A focused, peak Kenny has a very good chance of beating all of them.

Norton's unorthodox stance, agressiveness and workrate should be enought to give him the edge.

Tucker and Williams most probably lose by UD or even by late stoppage.
Tokyo Douglas probably stays competitive to the end and goes the distance, but loses by SD.

 

Tyson was clearly not at the races that night weren’t his team using g a condom to stop the swelling

 

Douglas probably looked as good or better than he did against Tyson in his previous fight with Mike Williams on the Tyson - Spinks under card. Williams, at the time was a big prospect. I haven't watched it in awhile, but Douglas might have scored a knockdown with his jab? That fight should have let Tyson know that Douglas could fight when motivated.