Ken Norton v Tony Galento

Puncher´s chance Vs Vastly more Skilled fighter......Norton by wide decision.....

And Cooney, Shavers and Foreman were harder hitters than Galento anyway.....

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Galento was too slow (slower than any puncher Norton ever faced) too open (much more open than Cooney or Shavers, etc)......Norton is in another level IMO, much higher than Tony (and I like Galento)....

 

This is about how I view it.

Tony was a useful fringe contender.

Ken Norton was rather consistently one of the three or four best heavyweights on Earth in one of the divisions golden ages.

There is just a difference in class here, and I don't think Galento fits the profile of men who wiped Norton out.

 

Interesting that their fighting weights at 220 & 245 lbs would fit in with today's
heavyweights.

 

Always a chance that Ken could get caught by one of Galento's wild but hard haymakers. Norton would be favourite though. Too much skill and too strong to have got 'moidered by da bum'

 

Norton would destroy the fatman.

 

To be honest, there is no pick that I could make here and get a good nights sleep.

I am not comfortable with picking Gallento over Norton, and I am also not comfortable with picking Norton to do something he failed to do every time he tried e.g. beat a top end puncher.

Norton is generaly a prety good barometer for whether a person over rates the 70s heavyweight. If people pick him over the top punchers from another era, then they are usualy prety firmly in the 70s haze.

 

Gallento was certainly much more than a fringe contender.

There is as you say a difference in class, but there is also a strong stylistic dynamic against Norton here.

 

Janitor in favouring older, whiter fighter shock!

 

Galento was a physically strong, tough guy with a nasty hook but let's not over rate him ... he had a very inconsistent career, was brilliantly managed into his title bout with Louis and in many ways over achieved in that bout ... a Norton fight would depend on the ref and what he allowed plus the ring size ... if a ref allowed an anything goes attitude and the ring was under 20 by 20 Tony had a shot ... other that that Norton stops him in a massacre ...

 

Galento shatters his jaw

 

That's a difficult one.

Who do you fancy ?

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True, if the ref turned his head so to speak and let Tony go wild it may get interesting, but to be honest even in such a scenario I think Kenny still flattens Tony... As another poster stated Norton is a different level of fighter then Tony.. I would pay to see it though!! :good

 

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Nah.

I just favour older fighters.

For example I have picked Sam Langford over the Klitschko brothers.