Ken Norton Would Get Slept by Povetkin in Every Universe

Norton is overrated, there I said it. He's lucky to have been around at the time of the two best heavyweight greats, with the worst left hooks - and the best, but no fight emerged with Joe to prove me right.

His cross guard can be awkward, and leaves him open for the left hook. This is also the case when he reaches out with his right hand to parry the jab. In his short fights with Foreman, Shavers and Cooney; he is knocked down, out or badly hurt by the left hook and even while older, it's a weakness he never seemed to fix.

Combined with his necessity to push forward, his less than stellar chin and tendancy to mix it up when it's in no way a good idea, is why I think it's likely that Alexander Povetkin would beat Ken Norton 10/10.

A universal left hook KO.

 

PEDs or no PEDs?

 

I’ve been secretly agreeing with this in the dark corners of the internet.

Welcome to the resistance.

 

Give them both Peds, the truth does not care about hormones.

 

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Povetkin would fail a PED test in every universe, too. Dude was juiced to the gills and once he got popped for a second time his career nosedived because he didn’t have Ivan Drago-level gear running through his veins.

When he held the WBA regular title, he bravely defended against Andrzej Wawryk (or whatever his name was, a complete and total nobody) plus 40-year-old Cedric Boswell (a never-was), 40-something Hasim Rahman (a has-been) and barely beat Marco Huck (a cruiser) in a fight he arguably lost.

Then he fought Wlad, and the only round he ‘won’ was a 9-9 because Klitschko was deducted a point. Everybody talks about Wlad holding, but Povetkin waded in, got close enough to punch and then thrust both arms under Wlad’s armpits repeatedly. He never even TRIED to work. He got beat by like 15 points on all cards with a point deduction against his opponent.

I will never, ever understand the fascination with this roided-up poser. Absolute fraud.

 

Hard to say definitively whether there was a clean Povetkin to begin with, or whether there was just an undetected PED Povetkin.

Probably best to just use whatever fight you think he was good in.

Fair comment, but: No PED tests in the 70s, where this time machine fight is presumably being held.

 

Been saying the same thing for awhile and getting flack for it from certain people......... Glad I'm not the only one who agrees

 

Jerry Quarry beat more good opponents than Povetkin …

 

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One did them and one didn't.

 

Why are we presumably taking Povetkin back in time instead of taking Norton forward?

As noted, there’s probably never been a clean version of Povetkin except near the end when he was being used more or less as a punching back by top-level guys with Eddie Hearn getting him a win here or there to keep him viable.

 

Because the 70s are a classy, fun venue for us to watch the rumble. Do you really want to watch Norton fight Povetkin under antiseptic blue and white lights in a Universum promotion, in excessively high definition?

 

A G E N D A - seriously though yeah.

 

One of them was tested and the other wasn't. I won't outright accuse Norton with no proof, but he was 220, didn't lift weights and did an endurance sport. He's also among the first guys to look and be conditioned like that, just shortly after PEDs became widespread.

Not a coincidence in my opinion.

 

Now what do you think of George Foreman?