Shoot the Moon: Larry Holmes vs Earnie Shavers, 1979 (Article)

To be on the receiving end of an overhand right from “The Black Destroyer” invariably meant being transported, if only momentarily, to another dimension. “I was in the land of make-believe,” former heavyweight contender James Tillis once recalled about the evening Earnie Shavers sent him plummeting onto his face in a Las Vegas ring. “I heard saxophones, trombones. I saw little blue rats, and they were all smoking cigars and drinking whiskey.”

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