How good was Terry Norris

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Watched a few of his highlights recently and liked the look of his aggresive textbook stlye. Just how good was he? What was his resume like, any notable avoided opponents and what was the quality of the division at the time? How does he go down in 154 history and how would he compete with top 154 pounders like Winky Wright, Fernando Vargas and Mike Mccalum?

Terry Norris was one of the best boxer/punchers ever IMO. When he would box on his toes he looked unbeatable.

But his big downfalls was his chin and concentration. As BK said he was DQ'ed twice against Luis Santana. But i have to say the 1st fight was extremely BS IMO.

Luis Santana was only tapped on the back of the head, and he done a Robert De Niro type performance to get a DQ win.

And as i said earlier his chin was for certain weak, he was on queer street from only a jab off Simon Brown. And he was KO'ed in quite embarrassing IMO. But he did totally give Simon Brown a boxing lesson in the rematch, in one of his most impressive performances of his career.

But those flaws made him all the more exciting to watch, lets forget his flaws for a minute and talk about his best performances.

His fights against Meldrick Taylor, Donald Curry, Jorge Castro, Sugar Ray Leonard, John Mugabi, Simon Brown 2, Luis Santana 3, Brett Lally, Maurice Blocker, Vince Pettway.

Were his best performances IMO, he also had a very good war against Troy Waters which is worth checking out.

Terry Norris had lovely fast hands and good footwork, he was a treat to watch at his best. And yes he would of easily competed against those fighters you mentioned. And he might of beaten atleast 2 of them. I know he for certain would of beaten Fernando Vargas.

The only fighter i heard he avoided was Felix Trinidad but i don't know all the details, there was also talk of Terry Norris vs Pernell Whitaker but that never happened either. Overall he beat a solid list of opponents, and he ranks very high in the all time Jr Middleweight ranks IMO.