Comments Thread For: The Boxing Judge Tom Schreck: How perception and bias shaped the Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton trilogy

[BoxingUpdates]

Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton fought three times in the 1970s. The record shows Ali winning two out of three, but had you asked most ringside observers ? and even Ali himself ? Norton may have deserved to sweep the series. So how did the decisions go the other way?
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[famicommander]

Just call it what it is, blatant favoritism and corruption.

[Wacked_Out]

Norton won all 3 fights.

[PNUT901]

Thank you Mr. Schreck , this piece was really interesting. The ways that our brains perceive things are fascinating. A lot of what we see we don't really see , our minds just fill in the blanks. It's good to get a Judges perspective on this. Hopefully this kind of stuff is being taught to judges so that they can be aware of it and work around it.

[Whiplash55]

The second fight could have gone either way. Norton won the third IMO. Norton vs Holmes could have gone either way, and the scoring reflected that.

[mjh1969]

Norton's style gave Ali lots of problems. I thought Ali won the 2nd fight but lost the first and third fight for sure.

[famicommander]

Norton won all three fights and I thought Frazier deserved the W in the second Ali fight too.

[Bob]

Another reason why Joe Louis is the greatest.

[Left Hook Louie]

I love those old-school boxing posters.
Back in the day they didn't have all this dedicated media output - these posters was about all they had.
So primitive yet somehow kindled the imagination and made us all want to see the fights.
boxing poster.jpg

[The D3vil]

Another reason why Joe Louis is the greatest.

Joe Louis got a robbery against Jersey Joe Walcott.