His best known fight is a controversial decision loss to World Boxing Council Junior Lightweight Champion Alfredo Escalera on November 30, 1976.
"[2] Everett turned professional in 1971 and eventually made enough money to buy a bar, two apartment houses and a Cadillac.
[3] On November 30, 1976, Everett challenged Alfredo Escalera for the World Boxing Council Junior Lightweight Championship at the Spectrum in Philadelphia.
After fifteen rounds, Escalara was awarded a highly controversial split decision victory over the slick southpaw.
Tom Cushman of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote: Veteran boxing judge Harold Lederman listed the verdict as the most controversial decision of all-time.
[8] On May 26, 1977, Everett was shot and killed by his girlfriend, Carolyn McKendrick, after she came home and found him with a transvestite named Tyrone Price.
The bullet had struck him in the face, exited out the back of his head, went through a window and was found on the sidewalk across the street.
The Associated Press reported that packets of heroin, some marijuana and unidentified pills were found by police downstairs on the dining room table.
At the time of her arrest, McKendrick was free on probation following convictions the previous year on weapons and narcotics charges and for receiving stolen property.
During her trial, McKendrick testified that she came home earlier than expected on May 26 after helping her sister with an errand and found the door locked by a chain.
The prosecution argued that McKendrick shot Everett out of anger when he refused to answer questions about who had been in the rumpled bed with him.
[12][13] Everett, who had four children before he died and another one after his death, was buried in an unmarked grave at Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania.
John DiSanto, a fight fan who grew up in Philadelphia, went to Eden Cemetery in 2005 to pay his respects at Everett's grave.
DiSanto's website, PhillyBoxingHistory.com, established a program dedicated to placing headstones on the unmarked graves of Philadelphia boxers.