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    Jul 30, 2020 4 minutes

    5 JULIAN JACKSON w rsf 2 TERRY NORRIS

    5 JULIAN JACKSON w rsf 2 TERRY NORRIS July 30, 1989; Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ

    ONE week after Mike Tyson halted Carl Williams inside a round, Julian Jackson thundered into position as the unofficial race to be regarded as the sport’s most dangerous man gathered pace. “I have a message for Mike,” Jackson sneered after bulldozing Terry Norris in four and a half minutes, “I can do it too.” But before Jackson whipped out a savage three-punch combo that plummeted Norris into the darkness, the WBC super-welterweight boss briefly struggled with his challenger. The world didn’t yet know about Norris – his lengthy spell among the

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