Shavers punches reddened Norton's face!

Oh, so you all wanna see it again, huh? Is that it? Pretend like it was a fake, like it didn't just crush his very soul when it happened, eh? Just gotta get your sadistic kicks one way or another, right? ONE TIME AROUND NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU LOT, IS IT?! :twisted::|

You sick ****s...I swear, all you sonsa....fine, you know what? Fine: here it is. Enjoy gazing upon his misery you pack of wolves, you vicious garden gnomes.


Look at it! LOOK AT IT!

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Gone. Swept from his face by a single blow...

 

He had the double childectomy after the Young fight, correct?

 

cobra, i expected better photoshopping from you. your cheap attempt to digitally remove his mustache is so transparent.

THIS, my friend is the original

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you can clearly see...MUSTACHE!

 

Around that time, yes. He'd swing them about side to side so as to, in effect, create a force field of sorts against oncoming opponents. Young (being Jimmy Young, of course) complained about that and called it illegal and cruel or some such, so the commission put an end to it and had them removed.

Jorodz, you fool. You ignorant fool. :verysad Did you not read his book? I don't have to just rely on that picture (mine being the unaltered, true version of it), because I have the word from the man himself. He wrote books about the night his mustache was taken from him. Whole books. 20,30, sometimes even 33-pages long! Reading his words on the matter would shatter your Canadian soul, I tell you what.

 

Ken Norton, talking about Shavers in 1980

"Man, that Earnie Shavers hit me so hard my face went a bit red. But he did not, I repeat, not, harm one hair on my Richard Roundtree special, you got that bitches?"

There, that should clear it up.

 

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you DAAAAAAAMN right

 

OK, I now see what the problem is. You all have him confused with someone else. Plenty of mustachioed men had their faces reddened by Earnie Shavers in those days, it was an all too common sight, so it's understandable that you'd get mixed up by it all, but poor Kenny had it much worse. Much, much worse.

Shavers himself actually wrote books about those harsh times as well, though they're less of the soul-bearing variety and more of the 'check out my collection of mustaches' kind, as compared to Norton's. I suggest all you's guys pick these books up and actually read them. Apart from generally just being a pleasure to read, the books would help to clear the whole era up, give you some great insights, shatter your soul, validate some of your claims, etc.

 

pfff, i'll wait for the movie version, "Earnie Shavers 2: Mustache Boggaloo"

 

Yeah, I'm excited for it, too. :thumbsup

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Call me crazy, but I don't subscribe to the school of thought that says that a man sporting a moustache made popular by another man automatically inherits that man's personality and lifetime memories, I don't care how bushy it is.

Shavers may well have taken a number of moustaches with his crazy face-reddening power, but he at no point so much as knocked Norton's tache off kilter. He can write as many award winning books on the subject as he likes, but they're nothing but lies to me unless he can provide photographic evidence of the moment in question, which up until this point he has not.

Norton had a hell of a tache, and it's understandable why Shavers said what he said, but it was the sideburns I'm telling ya.

 

This reminds me of the time Irish Tex Goldstein broke his right hand on Boston Tom McMustache's mustache during their seventh bout. They were fighting for the championship of 180 pound white men from North America and Western Europe, or rather "the world heavyweight championship" as it was called in those days. (As I recall, Boston Tom took rather a lot of heat for breaking the "no ****ing Jews goddammit" line to fight Goldstein.)

Anyway during the buildup to the fight, Irish Tex had vowed to punch Boston Tom's mustache clear around to the back of his head. Sure enough, late in the 48th round he fired off a corker straight to Boston Tom's soup-strainer. There was a loud crack which contemporary sources compared to "the sound of a sonic boom, if we knew what one was" yet the mustache was untouched, and Goldstein's hand would later be revealed to have been broken in 87 places.

Boston Tom went on to triumph by 164th round KO. Irish Tex would claim that Tom's mustache was like "bristles of iron" and would accuse him of wearing a steel prosthetic mustache into the ring. This was never proven though.

In any case, Boston Tom was a thorougly modern fighter with a thoroughly modern mustache that even Shavers would be unable to punch off. All of this bull**** about modern training and nutrition and mustache waxes is basically nonsense.

 

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Wow Shavers beat a washed up Ken Norton? Clearly that makes him the hardest puncher of all time then you realize a prime Norton got knocked out in 2 by Formean.

 

Is that you SweetHome?