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Brutal indeed. Painful to see. I'm not sure of this should be in the category of best knockout or worst knockout. A 38 year old and well past it Norton, defenceless at the end, takes a few shots too many from a heavy banger before the ref finally jumps in.
I had a personal beef with this fight.No I wasn't born yet but when I watched all the hype and all of Cooney's earlier fight's Ken Norton was commentating and every single fight Cooney was in Norton bashed him and said some nasty racial s**t. Ala Holmes in there fight. Nobody put a gun to Norton's to get in the ring that night hell he thought nothing of Cooney but he was a great white hope who had been carried as later HBO would try to make clear with the legendary night's episode. All I can say is he disposed of Norton, Jimmy Young who beat Foreman, Ron Lyle, John Dino Dennis who was a very good fighter people forget about.
A lot of people had racial things to say about Cooney's fights, especially the one against Holmes. Holmes was not the worst offender by far. Nor was Cooney. Nor was Norton.

Sure, Norton went in out of free will. And ended up taking shots while sitting on the ropes with his hands at his side.