A LOOK back AT EVENTS THAT HAPPENED ON this date
George Foreman stops Ken Norton to win heavyweight title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGhXIDRYzO8
George Foreman was an absolute terror early in his career. The 1968 Olympic gold medalist, an imposing power puncher from Houston, was 39-0 (with 36 knockouts) and seemed to be unstoppable by the end of 1973. He had taken out former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier in two rounds early that year, an indication that he was superhuman. His next objective: Win the heavyweight championship of the world. That opportunity came against Ken Norton on this date in 1974 in Caracas, Venezuela. And it wasn’t pretty, at least not from Norton’s perspective. The conqueror of Muhammad Ali went down three times and failed to make it out of the second round, making Foreman the heavyweight champion. Of course, that distinction didn’t last long. Muhammad Ali stunned the boxing world by stopping Foreman in eight rounds in The Rumble in the Jungle seven months later.
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