Ali's Toughest Fight Explained! - Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton | Fight Breakdown

Soundly Beaten.

If Ali never stopped his dancing, never been overconfident with taking less training time and never underestimated his opponents, and lastly if the sickness hadn't got him,,
believe me No one on this planet, no matter how long he kept playing boxing, could take him down. He was the strongest, fastest, smartest and very well shaped boxer in history. What a Man!

When will we get a Ken Norton video ?!

Ali got points on the scorecard for dancing in the ring and making people miss, not hitting.

Ali was given some gift decisions in his career, Norton was one of them.

When building a fight plan, most fighters do a spectacular job.
The real problem comes in when their plan goes south.
I attribute that to a conditioning issue.
When training, wear yourself out entirely. Then every once in a while, get up and do it again. Simulate that exhausted feeling of being completely drained and having to keep going. Beat yourself up and then do all over again. Get used to it. Everyone is Chuck Norris until proven otherwise.

xl frazier

Ali really you fought well with a broken jaw throught the rest of the fight

the 1 thing Ali lacked the big punch

In my opinion, Ken beat Ali twice. He got robbed in that 3rd fight.

Some experts say Ali actually never beat Norton and they are not far from truth, I personally think Ali just beat him the 2nd fight, but Norton honestly won 2.

Ali couldn't beat frazier and Norton's fighting style, but Forman made easy work of them both. At the same Ali made easy work of Forman's fighting style.

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That 70's HW era was freaking insane! Ali, Fraizer, Foreman, Norton, Holmes and I'll even throw Ron Lyle and Ernie Shavers in there. Even the contenders like Shavers and Lyle could have beaten the aforementioned champions on even given night if the champs weren't on there A game. Absolute golden age of Heavyweight boxing.

Ken Norton was Ali’s kryponite

Muhammad Ali ate lots of sugary foods and is lazy to train regularly that’s why his muscles grew weak
also he hated to improve his body defense
that’s why he had taken fatal kidney/liver busting body shots that resulted inmaking his brain toxic and also deteriorated due to mini brain strokes from embolisms.

Norton would've made easy work of Tyson Fury

sonny liston would knock norton easy

Dammn, heard Nortan is a very decent guy, yet he let out the worst of intention with those punches.
Those bodyshots were as hard as he could throw, but ali dosent break udner any circumstances, to still perform so well after all that? Is more inspiring then a victory.

You're awesome dude

IMHO, Ali was slightly overrated. The guys he fought in the 60s, other than Liston, who was controlled by the Mob, weren't all that great.

If Ali was dancing from the start he would have won

I remember watching this fight when I was a kid. I was sad. Now, I still cringe but I have to give Ken Norten AND Eddie Futch his due. It was a well deserved victory.

Ali had a big disrespectful mouth no where anything like Joe Lewis.

Frazier was harder

Ali broke his jaw in round 2, still went 12. Shows how tough he was. One of the toughest chins ever.

Where is Ken Norton vs Ali 2? U said stay tuned for the epic rematch :)

Ali's worst deficiency, as was normally the case, was underestimating his opponent, which was followed by a lack of training & preparation...(also a lack of motivation) Norton was probably the 4th best HW at that time. Never underestimate Kenny.

Ali was also one of the arrogant and disrespectfull Boxer. No Sport Man no honor.

One of my all time favorite classic fights. I’m such a mark for NORTON.

Fun fact, Norton was even dumber than he looked.

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Ali always seemed to fare worse against real "boxers." Mr. Christian, your commentary and analysis is superb. I must point out though that you (seem) to say "descent" in the beginning of the video when you meant "ascent"

Same happened to me just today

The fact Ali got people back in rematches is what keeps his record better than anyone's at the time. If he didn't come back, risking double losses, to put the record straight, and just cut to Foreman for example, there would be a lot more debate about who was very best of the era. So many other characters would opt for an easier route.

Don’t like rematches. The first fight is the one that counts to me. Semper Fi Ken Norton

Very enjoyable and insightful breakdown, can't wait for second part. I've fallen in love with your content and can't thank you enough for sharing your knowledge

Good job bro

That half-parry/punch was also utilized by Daniel Cormier in the UFC. It's a great tactic and I'm surprised I don't see more people do it. DC did it for entire fights sometimes (see the 1st and 2nd Miocic fight).

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Norton was super underrated.

This channel is so damned good. I truly hope you are getting a decent purse of all the work you put in, because it is stellar.
I will be forever in your debt.

It’s crazy how Norton only won by split decision, just goes to show how biased & corrupt the judging can be.

Now I have my answer of who would have won. Ali or Marciano. Marciano was the king of deception, feints and parry not to mention a granite chin. He never stopped coming and you never knew which direction the punches were coming from.
Ali and Norton both threw straight punches with a few feints. Ali had speed but his arms were 83 inches long and was forced to fight on the outside and dance. Norton brought it in and worked on the body and used his feints to get in.
Marciano was the master at tactics and had power every punch with his entire body behind it.
The computer simulation must have had it right. Still I believe both held back in their actual sparring matches but the result would have been the same. Ken Norton was awesome this fight. Both were. This fight reminded me how fast Ali actually was.