I was just reading through some of JCC's fights on chavez360.com and after the fight with Haugen, it says Chavez earned 2.5 mil as well as 10 mil deal to fight Norris. How realistic was this fight? Was Chavez going to skip WW and move up 2 classes for the LMW title or was Norris going to come down at meet him in the middle at welter? Anyone know how close this fight was to happening or what the hold up was?
don't know but as much as i loved jcc...even in his prime he would have been ko'd by TN---too big, to fast to hard a puncher
I remember the Showtime commentary team saying Don King wanted to match Norris up w/ Chavez at 147 lbs for the WBC 154 lb title, and if they were going to do this I think it would have been King's way of saying "It's time to cash you out Julio". However, Simon Brown knocked out Terrible Terry Norris on the undercard of a Chavez fight and that notion was quickly put away.
Norris was a beast at 154. No one will ever know how he would of fought at 147. But at the sametime, 147 would of been too heavy for Julio. I'd give the edge to Norris. Too fast, too strong, for Chavez. Only thing that might go for Chavez would be a lucky right hand landing on Norris's chin and Chavez had an iron chin, so he might of gotten floored by Norris, but there's a good chance Chavez might of gotten back up and probably stopped, but I think Norris wins this one.
didn't know they meant at 147--the orginal post said jcc skipping WW and going up to LMW. so i will revise: at 147 chavez has a very small chance to catch a drained, underweight and weak chinned norris. at 154 norris by brutal ko inside of 4rds---eve with jcc legendary chin.
This fight was being seriously considered for 147 until, as one of the posters said, Norris was beaten by Brown. JCC was never a Welterweight and unless Norris was a walking corpse from dropping the weight, he would have been far too big for Julio.
.....am sure some bloke on this forum posted an urban myth bout Chavez getting involved with Norris at some sort of party...