Troy Waters v Terry Norris 19 June 1993, San Diego, California, USA 

Australia is not a wonderful country. Also, he was born in London, England. He wasn't Australian.

Australia is not a wonderful country. Also, he was born in London, England. He wasn't Australian.

But yeah, rest in peace to Troy.

He was a compasssionate guy in this fight. Waters wanted to go on but was taking fearful punishment and the ref and doctor were going to let it go on. He made the brave decision to pull Waters out.

Troy was getting torn up in that fight. Troy could of continued but it would of been a matter of fight before he would get stopped later on.

@@nippahut Truth is the Norris corner was going to stop it, but the American GUY IN water's corner beat THEM TO it , LOOK IT up

Biased? They were giving Waters major credit, considering that was gettling absolutely killed. He dropped Norris with a good shot and did land some decent stuff but Norris was outlanding him 10 to 1 and it was getting dangerous how many shots he was eating. His chance of an upset had arrived and gone in the 2nd, it was mostly a painful watch in round 3. Waters corner stopped the fight, saved him a horrendous beating in round 4 or however long he could have lasted.

@@fredhills3153 Look what up? Waters' cornerman did the decent thing, he could see his man was getting his knocked around like a speedbag. Norris was a hard puncher and wasn't going to stop hitting him.

His chin was made of glass

No way! Very talented, but his chin was too weak to be considered an all-time great. He was a dirty fighter, too...had a habit of hitting fighters when they were down.

Damn straight

@@eddiedustin5449 I don't think his chin was made of glass? I think it was more like Tommy Morrison. When he got hit, he got hit with the whole damned kitchen🤷‍♂️

@@eddiedustin5449 Terrible Terry "Glass" Norris

So many T’s.

Yep, great solid technique on waters with that 12, especially managing to pull such shots off after such a beating. Norris is a beast.

This is a typical Terry Norris fight. Always entertaining.

Came close to getting himself knocked out in a fight he should be winning with little trouble. As soon as he found out Waters was easy to hit he just unloaded with zero care to his defence. Didn't learn from this at all as he fought the same way against Simon Brown 2 fights later, difference being that Brown was a much better fighter than Waters, so Norris gets knocked out. Exciting to watch but tactically reckless. He could easily have picked Waters off, won every round and probably stopped him late on. Fighting the way he did gave Waters a puncher's chance.

He was born in London, so he was actually English.

@@ravenaussie3760 I forgot he pass.Good finger and he had brothers that fought✊🏿☀️🌟🔥💯

I saw that too, god I fucking love boxing! Made me smile.

Everyone makes excuses for Norris which is nonsense. He was a sucker puncher when he saw the opportunity without question. He knew what he was doing. When he tried that in the Sugar Ray Leonard fight I lost all respect for him. The Luis Santana fight he sucker punches him in two different bouts and gets disqualified. Look at his record numbers don't lie. He has 3 losses due to DQ. Stop saying it was in the heat of battle or poor judgment it is just called a sucker-punch. Hitting someone when their down on not looking.

Yep.

True

Disagree. Waters hits him with a short right to the chin, which shaes Norris, then the body shot, which was low and finally the knockdown shot.

3rds fights is what I meant to say. It could have been the arrogance in his personality that went into the fight. He once had a high school fight on his baseball team because the N word was used, if I remember he put someone in the hospital

He's my trainer now with his help I'll look forward becoming champion one day

@@Warhead999 good luck with that Cesar

I think his ass was starting to get senile even back then

Shut the fuck up PUSSY

False. He was super aggressive, walked into clean shots. You do that and unless your chin is granite you'll get in trouble. Norris wasn't super durable but nobody has a career like his with a "bad chin".

@luck luckie- listed as cancer. RIP.

leukaemia

Norris was considered one of the best after Chavez and Whitaker at this time. Compared to the two, Norris showed more moments of mortality. You talk about him coming back after nearly being KO'd in the 2nd but he shouldn't be in that position in the first place. Troy Waters was considered a nobody which is why they said it would be the upset of the decade if Norris lost. Norris had a good record but his notable victories were against boxers past their prime like Leonard and Mugabi and a worn-out boxer like Meldrick Taylor. He also didn't unify his belts against guys in his division like Julio Cesar Vasquez (WBA), Gianfranco Rosi (IBF), John David Jackson (WBO), Verno Philips (WBO). That's most likely not completely on him though, but both Chavez and Whitaker where able to unify their belts around this point.

And hits the back of the head a lot too, he also complained about it when Troy did it once. Crazy.

I'm guessing you are referring to his trainer? 😑

Never understood that guard...upper cut bait.

@@barrybarnes96 Can work great against a fighter who throws a lot of straight shots - jabs and right hands (see: Witherspoon v Larry Holmes), but against someone like Norris who has every punch in the book, is fast, aggressive and throws great short hooks and uppercuts you are asking for trouble. Waters best chance (not much of one tbh) here would be to try to pot shot at range as he had a decent jab, then try to tie Norris up in close. Ducking his head down he couldn't see the shots at all and was just relying on his gloves to save him. We can see how that worked out. This must have set a record for punch accuracy (for Norris) and shots landed by one guy in a 3 round fight.

A lot of greats had suspect chins, but it doesn't mean they weren't great. Tommy Hearns comes to mind. Hearns is a legend but he lost to Iran Barkley, someone who shouldn't have lost to. He nearly lost to James Kinchen too because of that chin. Felix Trinidad would get dropped regularly too (Campas, Reid, Carr). The only losses Norris had in his prime were Julian Jackson, who was one of the hardest hitters in history and Simon Brown, who was a former P4P entrant. The Norris learned and boxed his way to an easy win. His later loss to Keith Mullings was Norris being on the downward slide as he lost his next 2 fights before retiring. Norris just had a tendency to brawl more than was sometimes necessary.

@@trackandfieldarchive Norris was much more vulnerable and flawed, even at his natural weight. We only saw Tommy become more vulnerable as he went multiple weight divisions.

Dirty? It was a str8 right.......

WHAT WAS dirty about it you idiot ?

Dirty? Norris hit him behind the head and after he was down, numerous times

I dont blame Troys corner for stopping the fight. Troy had the heart of a lion to withstand what he did

No,, that is just not true what you say. He was game and tough but this was a league to classy for him to compete. You have to be honest. With the right coaching maybe he could have been special, but he just didn't have it.

White boy could of move some more and jab some more his left jab was bothering Norris

Norris was too good for Troy. Corner stoppage saved Troy from a terrible beating had it gone on. However in saying that all respect to Troy for his absolute bravery in the ring. RIP fella.

@@marknorris1381 correct ,what do the blood thirsty clowns want , he could have been killed in the ring!

@@garywarner6526 notice in America it's always WHITE BOY or being described by your race, really sick place, love the freedom of beautiful Australia without that ugly crap