Brown Still Humble After Giving Norris a Pound-for-Pounding

Terry Norris, boasting of greatness and dreaming of further glory, was cut down by a man who calls himself “Humble Simon” and admits he’s not quite the world’s best fighter.

Soft-spoken Simon Brown repeatedly hurt Norris with compact, powerful rights and combinations in Saturday night’s World Boxing Council super-welterweight title fight.

He dropped the champion in the first round, sent him stumbling to his corner at the bell in the third and put him down for good at 1:06 of the fourth round.

The fight demolished Norris’ claims to be the world’s best fighter and completed a dramatic comeback for Brown, a former International Boxing Federation and WBC welterweight champion considered by many to be over the hill.

“I’m not going to get ignorant even though I won,” Brown said Sunday. “I’m still going to stay the same humble Simon.”

Brown said Julio Cesar Chavez, the night’s headliner, encouraged him. “Chavez told me at the weigh-in that I can do it, and I just kept that stuck in my mind,” he said.

“I want to get this straight also,” Brown said. “Chavez is pound for pound” the best fighter. “I’m number two.”