Was he a special type of talent you don't see often? Was he just a good fighter? Should he have been awarded the decision against Escalera? Where do you see his career landing had he stayed with us?
Only seen one fight of his, the Escalera travesty..........without question, the very worst decision I have ever seen. Nothing was as obvious a setup as that thing. I had the slick-boxing Everett cleanly winning 12 of 15 rounds. They weren't even terribly close rounds. Awful, horrible, disgusting display of corruption. No judge is that inept. They knew who won before the first bell rang.
Was he robbed, 100 per cent yes, he was indeed a great fighter and if he had continued to apply pressure in the fight he would have stopped Escalera but regrettably he did not, his 2 gloved fists would have been the judges rather than 'influenced' scorers. I fear that despite his great in the ring abilities, his out of the ring lifestyle was going to foreshorten his career, however possibly not as early as it did. We cannot forget that this 'incident' happened less than a month before a planned Escalera rematch, so disciplined lifestyle, in safety of training camp not his thing. The 2 bouts he had after the Escalera 'loss' in lead up to the arranged rematch were to say the nowhere near top drawer opponents, his last opponent was a 14 fight veteran who had won only 4 of those fights, and previous opponent had record of 34 wins 39 losses and 4 draws.
Who would you compare him to stylewise? As far as lifestyle I heard many stories about the good fighters in Philly that lived fast or the Philly Gym Wars ruining them
Looks like great handspeed, you can see Everett setting his opponent up. RING IQ When he does counter and let his hands go he throws crisp combos 2s and 3s then get back out of range.
Wow when I read that the first fight that comes to mind for me is Roy Jones in Korea. Sounds like it was similar
