Quote Originally Posted by bradlee180 View Post
Earnie Shavers hit harder than them, and he was 6', 210 pounds.
Foreman did not fight Earnie Shavers.

And Shavers did not hit as hard as Wladimir's hard punching opponents. Obviously he would have hit harder than say Byrd and Chambers because he committed everything to it.

Shavers shows definite drop in knock out power the heftier his opponents got.

I think he could be considered the hardest puncher of the cruiserweight division maybe but not of HW. Against 200+ HW's his KOratio is in the 60 odd percentile, that's nothing special compare the the 70-80 odd for most power punchers. And against opponents the size of the average modern HW today, Shaver's KO ratio drops below Chris Byrd.

Summary: Shavers is dangerous mainly to bums, which he mainly fought, and cruiserweights which he also mainly fought.

The only time Shavers ever wasted a natural HW with a good record to my recollection was KEn Norton, a renowned glass jaw. Not impressive!