How well does Terry Norris do if he moved up to Middleweight?

He doesn't do well at all.

Norris has an incredibly weak chin for a top class fighter and there's some very big punchers on that list and he didn't have the physicality to deal with those top class Middleweights.

RJJ, Toney, Hopkins, McClellan, Jackson again, Benn, Eubank before Watson, would all stop him.

I like Norris as a fighter but let's be real he feasted on shot fighters or blown up Welterweights.

 

I agree with the previous posts about Norris not having a lot of success at 160 but I don't think his chin was horrible. His biggest problem was he was almost all offense and would seriously neglect the defensive side of the sport and it cost him. I think he could knock off a few guys with his hand speed and talent but Toney, BHOP, McCallum etc would have taken him a part imo.

 

I don't see him getting through the division with out getting KOd a few occasions.
I've got to say I loved watching him, he was one of the most exciting and unpredictable fighters of the time.

 

Norris seem to change styles after becoming champ, before he was more a boxer. He outboxed the then undefeated future middleweight champ Quincy Taylor (koed Julian Jackson for the title) and later on the veteran former champ Buster Drayton.

The Mugabi destruction and the easy win over Ray Leonard turned him into a seek and destroy fighter.

The only exception was the Siimon Brown rematch.

He would get violenty stopped by all, oddly enough I think he might have a chance with Jullian Jackson (post the 2 McClelan losses) in 1995 as Jackson was never the same after McClellan but I wouldn´t be surprised seeing Jackson doing another Graham come from behind one punch ko.

 

I don’t think too well unless he cherry picks very carefully. And the middleweight division of the 90s in particular was loaded with big punchers

 

He wouldn't even get into the ring with JC Vazquez at 154. How's he going to face the list assassins who haunted 160 in the 1990's?

 

Not well.

He was on the small side for 154 (look at how far he got down for the catchweight bout with Meldrick), and had a poor chin.

Things would get real ugly for him.

 

Terry Norris is one of my favorite fighters…but some guys just need to stay in their division…Just like Bob Foster should have stayed at 175

 

There was talk of a Benn fight back then 90 ish would be a good fight until Norris gets sparked out.

 

If I'd have been Norris s management, there's no way I'd put him in the same room with Benn, never mind share a ring!

 

There’s a reason he never chose to move up - he was a big fish in a small pond and there was a big pond 6 lbs north that he could have swum in had he’d chosen to. But he would have drowned.

If anyone feels like extending that metaphor any further, be my guest.

 

I was always more curious as to why Norris was at 154 instead of 147. Norris at 160 was never anything that it seemed he should do.