Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton, who fought three engrossing battles over a three-year spell, have both left us; Norton passing away in September of 2013, Ali passing away in June of 2016.
Heavyweight puncher Gerry Cooney was in Ireland over the weekend, doing a meet and greet with the fans and promoting his new autobiography ‘Gentleman Gerry: A Contender in the Ring, a Champion in Recovery.’
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If ever a heavyweight champion looked set for a long reign it was 25 year old George Foreman on the evening of his brutal destruction of Ken Norton.
June 9, 1978 – Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Unbeaten and, to his own disgust, largely ignored heavyweight contender Larry Holmes was getting a shot at the WBC crown.
It’s proven so, so hard for a number of great fighters to exit the sport on a win. So often we’ve seen legends battle on for too long; taking that ‘fight too many.’
Sometimes a fight is so great, we simply have to see it again. Sometimes we are treated to an unforgettable tirilogy of fights.
Rummy’s Corner proudly presents another edition of a new ongoing series that will explore some of the greatest bouts in the rich history of professional boxing.
It might be something of a morbid subject, but Muhammad Ali, a man who literally gave everything he had in the pursuit of the greatness he achieved in the ring, is, despite the ghastly health problems he has been suffering with for over three decades, outliving his former ring rivals by a quite substantial amount of time.
There are some fights that were possible but they never happened. In the case of Joe Frazier verses Ken Norton a little bit of alternative revisionist history is needed to set the stage for the fight to have happened.
As fans have no doubt read by now, heavyweight legend and former world champion Ken Norton passed away earlier today. The magnificently conditioned former U.S