Ken Norton Would Get Slept by Povetkin in Every Universe

One reason Ken KO’d Bobick (no I’m not doubting he could punch hard 70s super fans) was because he hit him in the throat, watch the punch that gets Bobick in slow mo I’m positive this is the guy whose Adam’s apple Ken
disintegrated lol.

 

But isn’t the elephant in the room Norton’s chin with the Huck comparisons? (Among other things but still…) wasn’t Huck quite renowned for his chin? And that’s the 200lbs division that Norton, Ali and Foreman etc would all probably be in if they didn’t want money fights at HW.

 

I wonder how and when Povetkin became an ATG and why nobody told me....

 

I don’t think anyone is saying he’s an ATG just a very good pro fighter with the right attributes to beat Ken Norton who has his flaws and is not an ATG either.

 

Povetkin would probably beat Norton, but tbh he is getting overrated. Norton is just chinny, I would pick solid guys like prime Larry Donald or Witherspoon to beat Povetkin. Povetkin literally struggled with an ancient Donald, but nobody really knows about this

 

Povetkin would give Ali a great fight. Don't delude yourself.

Fair.

Buddy, you need to urgently speak to the guy who made this comment then

"and barely beat Marco Huck (a cruiser) in a fight he arguably lost."

Wanna guess who started the "yabbut he lost to" game?

I'm cool with it. Huck > Garcia easily.

 

Winning every round = struggled? Some weird fanfic you're writing out here

 

Norton was better than Witherspoon in most departments, Witherspoon had power but not like that. Wouldn't be suprised but I wouldn't make him the favorite

He didn't win every round, was made to miss several times, Donald held his own in the pocket instead of getting overwhelmed and he was also 40 lol. The fact it was even competitive let's you know prime Donald could beat him. Its the exact same logic why I think prime Povetkin massacres aj, because aj struggled with the old version.

Stylistically how many prime movers has povetkin even beaten ? Its actually a good question.

 

Well said! I always liked Povetkin but he did cause a lot of the ugliness in that fight! I actually think for the majority of that fight (Especially after feeling Wlad’s power) he was kinda trying to survive the full 12 rather than actually going for the KO.

I do think that performance kinda lit a fire underneath him, and he came back with a vengeance. Too bad we didn’t get Wlad vs 2015 Povetkin because THAT would’ve been fireworks.

Anyway… Povetkin KO’s Norton worse than Cooney did. Probably in 3-4 rounds.

 

Great post and nails it on the head

 

Garcia wasn't some scrub, he had more physical/athletic talent than Huck & was a ranked hw across 4 consecutive years, which actually makes him more accomplished @hw than Huck was. What he didn't have was the option of dropping down to a lower weight class & building a career solely vs. opponents under 200lb like Huck did.

He demonstrated a good chin vs. opponents under 200lb, but he was still stopped/KO'd multiple times under 200. Norton was only ever stopped once by an opponent under 200 & his chin was good enough to withstand 54 total rnds vs. 2 of the best hws that ever lived w/o ever being dropped once.

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Wanna bet that the guys Huck fought at cruiser were bigger than the guys that Garcia fought at heavy?

Big deal, so what? Glowacki would have beaten Garcia like a drum

 

Huck's opponents (such as Usyk) were all coming typically 10lbs higher then what it says on the tin, some higher it's standard practice, they've also to be 200lbs besides boiling down have lost a deal of regular weight, in a time machine these are 210-215lbs fighters and that's not weird to say - Norton's chin is interesting, I remember Young hurting him with no follow up, Garcia stopped him and after Foreman he didn't pick up the phone for Lyle and waited till the $ shots dried up to finally fight guys like Shavers and Cooney, Though he did have his mindset issues, KN bullied overmatched sparring partners and was fed 175lbers in the gym to help with his confidence so it may have been more then just his chin.