Does Anyone Here Feel Norton was Robbed VS Holmes?

This is how I see it as well.

 

No. I had Holmes winning 9 rounds.

And anyway, a robbery is when Norton clearly deserved the fight and anything but a Norton victory would have been an injustice. I'm not sure ANYONE saw it that way. Nobody I've heard/read ever said this was a huge Norton victory . . . as Ali-Norton III WAS, IMO.

 

It's been years since I seen it, but I thought at time that Norton won.

 

Yes.

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I scored it 8-7 Norton. The thing is Holmes dominated like 80% of that fight. In some rounds he got lazy and innaccurate with the jab, which allowed Norton a way back into the rounds with several clean shots. I prefered Norton, but, honestly I feel that was Larry's fight to win.

 

Only Norton can lose the first 5-6 rounds of the fight and then claim to be robbed later.

Holmes clearly picks up the first 7 in a row, just as Ali does the first 5 and the 12th in fight 2.

Norton has a habit of being a slowstarter, and it costs him against terrific jabbers willing to work.

Close fight, incredibly competitive, but unfortunately, he fell to far behind, and was not dominant enough to catch up.