Did Terry Norris miss out on a superfight?

Pepsi Dioxide · Jan 16, 2023

Dubblechin said: ↑

Terry Norris wasn't interested in moving up to middleweight during his prime.

He was in the last era - before weigh-ins were moved - were guys didn't dry out to barely make the weight limit for a couple seconds when they stood on the scale before immediately rehydrating back up to 160+.

Norris routinely weighed in for title fights weights at 154 weighing in the high 140s or low 150s. He was 149 for the Meldrick Taylor defense. He was 150 for a unification with Pettway. So he often called out welterweights.

But, back then, Don King's fighters fought on Showtime and Bob Arum's fighters fought on HBO. Norris was a King fighter. Rarely did they cross over.

Roy Jones and James Toney were far too big and fought on HBO, so there was never any real talk of Norris fighting someone like that.

The only "big" names I recall being talked about in regard to Norris were Julio Cesar Chavez and Felix Trinidad.

When Julio Cesar Chavez was trying to get to 100-0, there was talk of Chavez, after fighting Whitaker (and winnning) moving up and fighting Terry Norris ... which I always thought sounded ludicrous. Luckily, Chavez failed to impress or win against Whitaker so that was shelved.

There was also talk, when Felix Trinidad was a welterweight champion, of Norris and Trinidad facing off. They actually agreed to fight in 1997, and then Norris backed out, fired his manager and sued Don King. (Can't recall why. Probably wanted more money.)

So Felix Trinidad fought Troy Waters that night instead. And Norris signed with Bob Arum (with the hope of getting a big-money fight against Oscar De La Hoya), defended on a De La Hoya undercard against Keith Mullings (a complete journeyman), and Norris lost by stoppage in a huge upset.
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This is a pretty good recap of the situation. The only thing I remember different is that the Waters fight was made to hype up Trinidad vs Norris, with it being a WBC eliminator of some sort. Then it shortly after fell apart and Norris did win in court against King and his former manager.

ETM · Jan 16, 2023

he grant said: ↑

I would have liked to see him against Hopkins. I think his speed and power could make an interesting fight especially as Bernard was
No big puncher.
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I think Hopkins had good solid power at 160. In the 90s before he became more of a negative fighter Bernard was more aggressive and threw more punches. A clean shot would most likely hurt Terry.

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