Quote Originally Posted by Bill Paxtom View Post
Saturday ~ April 16, 1977

The Aladdin ~ Las Vegas, Nevada

This bout was billed as a 'Heavyweight Championship Qualifier'.

Earnie Shavers {Age; 31 years, 8 months} brought in a record of 53-5-1 {51 KO's}
and was at the 'peak' of his career.

Howard Smith{Age; 30 years, 3 months} came in with a record of 17-1-1 {11 KO's}
and was coming into his own as a Heavyweight Challenger.
I will give you one thing about Earnie Shaver's Bill...

I think he beat Muhammad Ali in that fight. I think he did more than enough to win throughout the fight and I think only the last 30seconds Ali was really pasting Shaver's.

But that doesn't make up for what happened the entire fight, particularly since I generally disregard anything that happened in the last 3 rounds of nostalgic fights anyway.

I don't consider beating Muhammad Ali a big deal AT ALL personally, but you probably would.