Floyd Patterson v. Ken Norton

Against Ali, Norton was absolutely brilliant. But his losses to the big punchers seems to count heavily against him by many.

 

I was quite surprised by the majority of posters picking Patterson.

When I saw this thread, my immediate gut feeling was that Patterson could win this one. However, I thought that most would pick Norton because of his size advantage and performances against Ali.

Was a kind of pleasant surprise to see that most picked Floyd.

 

Norton had the size and power advantage by a mile, but speed and movement may prove the key to a Patterson decision win.. I Like Norton by KO... around 1975.. But prime for prime it could have been close.. Its strange for me to imagine these two boxing because i saw them every day side by side in the MGM grand as greeters in the 90's.. Ken made 2 of Floyd and they looked 3 weight divisions apart.. Ken was around 245 pounds of muscle while Floyd was around 190 pounds and almost 6 inches shorter because of his age.. I couldn't imagine this fight..

 

Patterson, late TKO (somewhere near the 10th).

 

Since wen was ken norton a puncher?

 

Interesting observations, Bigcat.

 

He was no Shavers or Foreman, but he could pack a good punch. He did stagger both Ali and Holmes, and that's not too shabby.

 

Machen was 198 1/2
Ellis 198

 

Bump

 

I think Floyd might take this, might even stop Kenny late. Norton was not a huge puncher and I'm not sure his size advantage IS an advantage here. Floyd was mobile, hit hard and could set a pace. Does Kenny's crazy 'style' help him here? It's an interesting one as I can't think of a compareable fighter Kenny fought, although he does have a TKO win over Jerry Quarry, but Jerry does not have that perpetual movement in and out style Floyd has. People say Floyd had bad whiskers but boy he was resilient. Yup, I'm gonna go with Floyd but without a huge degree of confidence. A cracking high pace, high volume fight.

 

Patterson may be able to stun Norton, but I don’t believe he’d have enough to take him out.

Norton grinds him down for a stoppage and IMO, that’s the only probabilistic outcome.

 

I like both but people are underrating Floyd here; he was crazy fast, and I'm expecting Ken to drop him but not keep him down, Patterson on points.

 

Norton in a good fight

 

Norton

 

Ingo was a 196-pounder when he was in shape. He touched 206 for the third Floyd fight when he was breathiing hard in round one.