Wilfred Benitez vs Terry Norris @154

I think Benitez did better against Hearns than Norris would of in terms of slipping brilliantly, Norris will miss most of his punches.

 

Benetiz

 

Once Benetiz would get his countering in motion I think he'd win most of the rounds, Terry would never be able to tag him cleanly.

 

Unanimous

 

Benitez easily once he got a few rounds going.. And he would knock Norris out.

 

Man I don't know. Norris was fast and hit hard. Benitez lacked a good chin.
I could see Benitez outboxing Terry for stretches and then getting dropped a couple of times in route to losing a decision.
If Hearns wouldn't have broken his hand I think he would have stopped Benitez.

 

I think if he goes for the knockout Norris`s combos, hand speed and power would be too much even though he has a weak chin, the best way Benitez could get the knockout is setting traps to draw Norris in and catch him on the counter like Brown did, I know Wilfredo was much slicker than S.Brown but this would be safer and counter punching was Beni`s natural style, having said that I`m talking about Norris at his best boxing smart if he did fight like how he did against Brown it wouldn`t last long, he was dreadful in that fight like Curry vs Honeyghan, he forgot everything and thought he was Tyson!

 

Norris was trained by Golovkin trainer Sanchez but his unlike his current
star student Norris was a hot head with suspect chin who once hit
became undisciplined and became careless and ko hungry.
Against Benitez this would be his undoing . El Radar on pts.

 

Basically this.

It would be a close fight for awhile, but Benitez would take over down the stretch, outboxing Norris, and eventually stopping him.

Benitez was simply a higher level fighter than Norris.

 

There was a certain point where Norris became attack minded like Lloyd Honeyghan both fighters were cautious boxers who changed their style as there stock grew after beating established names (Curry,Leonard and Taylor) after this point Norris lost all defensive prowess, the clever boxing Norris would have given Benitez a lot more problems than the wild swinging Norris you are speaking about. Norris fought a great fight against a shop worn Leonard and Benitez`s jab stop Sugar from mounting an offense in certain rounds of their chess match, I feel if you could mix some of what Norris used against SRL with Wilfredo`s slipping ability then you would have a fighter that could probably beat a prime Ray.

 

Norris when hit never really recovered. That was always his problem.Against any top guy he would be hit and hurt, that is his problem. Many guys are disciplined and that helps.

 

I think Norris would surprise a lot of people when the ref holds his hand up after taking a comfortable UD

 

Benitez.

 

My opinion of Norris has regressed over the years.

I was very high on Norris when I was young, but in retrospect, theres very few all time greats I'd favor him over.

Theres no way in Holy Hell that Norris is beating the Benitez from the Duran fight.

This is the case of a true great vs a fake great.