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But just a few months previous Holmes had boxed brilliantly on national television, posting a twelve round shut-out over the dangerous Shavers. Held in Ceasars Palace in Las Vegas and broadcast on ABC, the inimitable Howard Cosell providing the blow-by-blow, Holmes vs Norton was in fact a showdown between the two best heavyweight boxers on the planet, even if few at the time realized it. But while most at the time did not fully appreciate how exceptional this match-up was, when the riveting struggle finally ended, all who saw it knew they had witnessed one of the truly great battles in heavyweight history.

Norton could be arrogant and this grated on Holmes. From the start Holmes set a brisk pace and after a skittish first round, which saw both men land hard shots, he settled into his rhythm, keeping Norton at the end of his potent left jab and following up with the straight right. Norton stalked, bobbing up and down as he shuffled forward, but failed to effectively cut off the ring and was missing frequently.

In the third he tried to establish his own jab but that only created more openings to exploit for the sharper challenger and in the fourth Holmes took advantage, scoring with a series of vicious combinations.

However, a minute into the fifth Norton connected with a powerful counter right, a harbinger of things to come. Holmes responded by ripping home his own hard right and, as the crowd came to its feet, the two big men commenced trading heavy shots in earnest before Larry got on his bicycle and out-maneuvered Norton for the remainder of the round. Norton began walking Larry down, applying intense pressure and throwing heavy left hooks as he did.

Then, just when Holmes began to anticipate the hook, Norton changed it up and connected with two thudding overhand rights. Holmes won in a split decision to take Norton Sr. It was a war. It's one of the best rounds of all time. That round really showed me who he was and I really understood it was time for me to do my thing.

There's a famous photo of Norton Sr. Ali is lying in bed, with Norton Sr. Shades were a necessary staple of Norton Sr. He'd often have his midsection wrapped up to protect cracked ribs. The body blows often caused him to urinate blood. But for us, that's your dad at home, not doing well, pretty beat up. You've got to mend him and love him back to health.

And then he's back out there just to bring food home. He let me know early on that fighting was a tough life and he didn't want that for me.

He wrote in his book he was extracted with the Jaws of Life and taken by helicopter to a Los Angeles hospital, where he had skull fragments removed from his brain during a life-or-death surgery. He also had a broken jaw and a broken leg. He'd feed him, bathe him, dress him -- everything his dad couldn't do on his own while bound to a wheelchair.

His dad had been a fixture on the Dallas sideline before games early in his pro career, always able to instantly pick out his son amid the mass of white jerseys. But when Norton Jr. The two had become estranged. Their silent feud became a national story, one of sports' best-known father-son duos not speaking for more than two years. It ate them both up inside.

Father and son gradually repaired their relationship. A few weeks after they got together for Norton Jr. Louis Rams and returned both for touchdowns. There are some memories children have of their parents no amount of time can erase. All these years later, Norton Jr.

I didn't want to let him down. So I think I learned how to look at my kids that way, to let them know that they're really special and I really love them. He looked at me like he really cared, and he did things and he said things and he lived his life that way, that he was going to set an example for me.

So I had to make sure that I carried on his legacy in that way. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Seahawks' Ken Norton Jr.

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Auction supporting War Child UK. Norton was an outstanding athlete at Jacksonville High School. He was selected to the all-state team football team on defense as a senior in His track coach entered him in eight events, and Norton placed first in seven of them.

As a result, the "Ken Norton Rule", which limits participation of an athlete to a maximum of four track and field events, was instituted in Illinois high school sports. After graduating from high school, Norton went to Northeast Missouri State University now Truman State University on a football scholarship and studied elementary education. In an interview with ESPN Fitness Magazine in , Norton said that he would have become a teacher or a policeman if he had not taken up boxing.

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