How many Ken Norton’s could Foreman take at once in the ring?

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  1. Kamikaze

    Kamikaze Bye for now! banned Full Member

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    2v1? 3v1? 4v1? Ect
     
  2. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    I'd say ummmm about 10. Maybe 11 at a push. Any more and George is getting a bit full up.


    Oh.. Might be able to squeeze a Floyd Patterson in perhaps??
     
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  3. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Crazy. Haha.

    Here goes, the original Kenny becomes that less leery just for the fact that he knows there’s at least another Kenny on hand to help out. As such revised Kenny performs 1 1/2 X better than the original Kenny actually did. From that platform, I think at best maybe we only need an extra 1/2 Kenny (half of the original Caracas Kenny, not half of the revised Kenny which would actually be 3/4 of Caracas Kenny) to get the job done. All up I guess that’s 2 x of the Kenny we actually got in reality.
     
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  4. Entaowed

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    It seems like sound math...if you mean those fractions of the abilities.
    If technically we have parts of people in the ring, I dunno how it will help to have just say the lower body, next to it a fully functioning torso & arms but no legs to propel it...
    Unless you split it so you get say a side of Norton. Then maybe absent a leg & arm he/it can do some damage if the full Snortin' Norton is occupying Big George.

    Having more than one person in the ring against another is a massive advantage.
    At least if the person in question is a World Class boxer like Snortin' Nortin.
     
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  5. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    I think 3 is borderline. 4 no chance.
     
  6. Kamikaze

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    Even if he KO'd all three
    "The Kenny's could compete in any era- they just had the wrong plan"
     
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    Strong post new guy. I love it.
     
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  9. Kamikaze

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    Cmon bare minimum of two- If he did one in and there were maybe 3 the other two might lose there morale enough to surrender...
     
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  11. cross_trainer

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    This is a very silly thread. I cannot imagine which necro'd posts may, or may not, have inspired it. I disclaim all responsibility, but claim the credit.

    Two Kennys in the ring, working together, would be more than enough to beat Foreman. I don't see Foreman -- or any ATG -- fighting off multiple world class (or even less than world class) opponents simultaneously.

    Consecutive Kennys, though, I would conservatively say Foreman could beat two in a row.
     
  12. BCS8

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    Two at once beat him to a pulp.
     
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  13. JWSoats

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    If only he could have had five Ken Nortons instead of the five boxers he had for the Toronto exhibition, that event would be remembered differently today!
     
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  15. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Well, you know, when in Rome….lol.

    Just as well I didn’t launch into Kuato Kenny, a mini Norton head grotesquely protruding from Kenny’s 6 pack (or 7 pack if you count Kuato Kenny). Eww!

    That’s really fractionalising the Kenny multiplier. But, is it enough to freak out and distract Big George upon Norton disrobing? Perhaps causing George to freeze up, totally fixated on little Kenny while Big Kenny beats Foreman about the head? Or does Foreman just shrug his shoulders and punch Kuato Kenny to the back of big Kenny’s spine leaving Big Kenny on his lonesome again. So many variables to consider. Fair to say Norton exceeded the sum of his parts, particularly when those parts remained duly attached to the whole.

    Yeah, just as well as I didn’t go down that path. That’s just ridiculous.
     
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