page_title: Ken Norton
section_title: Later media career
hierarchical_section_title: Ken Norton / Later media career
caption_attribution_description: American actor Perry King encouraging American boxer and actor Ken Norton before a fight in the film Mandingo. 1975
context_page_description: Kenneth Howard "Ken" Norton Sr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1967 to 1981, and held the WBC heavyweight title in 1978. He is best known for his fight trilogy with Muhammad Ali, in which Norton won the first by split decision, lost the second by split decision, and lost the final by a controversial unanimous decision. Norton also fought a slugfest with Larry Holmes in 1978, narrowly losing a split decision.
  Norton retired from boxing in 1981, and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992.
context_section_description: In 1975, at the peak of his boxing career, Norton made his acting debut starring in Dino De Laurentiis blaxploitation film Mandingo, about a pre-Civil War slave purchased to fight other slaves for their master's entertainment.  After starring in the 1976 sequel Drum Norton went on to play bit parts in a dozen other productions.
  Norton worked as an actor and TV boxing commentator following his retirement from boxing. He also was a member of the Sports Illustrated Speakers Bureau and started the Ken Norton Management Co., which represented athletes in contract negotiations.
  Norton continued making TV, radio and public speaking appearances until suffering injuries in a near-fatal car accident in 1986 which left him with slow and slurred speech.
  He appeared along with Ali, Foreman, Frazier and Holmes in a video, Champions Forever, discussing their best times, and in 2000 he published his autobiography, Going the Distance.
caption: On set of Mandingo (1975) with actor Perry King
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