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By the time spring had arrived in March of 1974 both Former Heavyweight Titleholder Joe Frazier and top ranked contender Ken Norton had one thing in common. They had both been brutally knocked out within the past fourteen months. Joe being slugged to the canvas a half dozen times in his championship surrendering slaughter against big George Foreman and Norton, in his March, 1974 Title challenge against Foreman survived the first round intact and was massacred in the second with three trips to the deck and a brutal TKO defeat. [details]
