earnie shavers: the hardest heavyweight puncher ever?

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Randall “Tex” Cobb certified Shavers as one of the hardest punchers ever. "Shavers hit me so hard I never knew what round it was."
Tex Cobb: "Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him. Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle."

Ken Norton: "George Foreman could hurt a fighter with clubbing punches. He just caught me, it was my mistake, I was careless. On the other hand Earnie could put your lights out like nobody else. Definitely Earnie hit harder than Foreman."

Joe Frazier: "Earnie asked me to fight him. I told him point blank, ‘No way, Earnie. Hey, you hit too damn hard.’

[EL DINAMITA]

They've never fought Wilder doe.

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Tex Cobb:"Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him.""Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle."

[walrus]

I hope we get a lot of Shavers threads this year

[Max Power]

@IamInuit

As if considering Shavers the hardest puncher was not enough for you, you had to go a step further didn't you.

You had to drag up a guy from 100 years ago, who has stylistically nothing in common with even the 70's boxers let alone the current ones.

Who was never a HW as we define them today anyhow.

Unbelievable!

[Svetlisl]

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[Max Power]

Randall “Tex” Cobb certified Shavers as one of the hardest punchers ever. "Shavers hit me so hard I never knew what round it was."
Tex Cobb: "Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him. Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle."

Ken Norton: "George Foreman could hurt a fighter with clubbing punches. He just caught me, it was my mistake, I was careless. On the other hand Earnie could put your lights out like nobody else. Definitely Earnie hit harder than Foreman."

Joe Frazier: "Earnie asked me to fight him. I told him point blank, ‘No way, Earnie. Hey, you hit too damn hard.’

@Master

I thought you told me Frazier didn't duck hard punchers?

[Ron Swanson]

And Tex Cobb KOed him so what?

[Max Power]

Fighters talk smack all the time, ESPECIALLY when it comes to pumping up their own wins.

Muhammad Ali himself is another member of the "Club of Nostalgia Delusion"

Years after his fight with Karl Mildenberger one of the most featherfisted guys to ever step foot into the ring, he later claimed that this Mildenberger was the hardest puncher he fought.

It seems that "Cover up Clay" was better at it with his mouth than he was covering up in the ring LOL

[brocktonblockbust]

Fighters talk smack all the time, ESPECIALLY when it comes to pumping up their own wins.

Muhammad Ali himself is another member of the "Club of Nostalgia Delusion"

Years after his fight with Karl Mildenberger one of the most featherfisted guys to ever step foot into the ring, he later claimed that this Mildenberger was the hardest puncher he fought.

It seems that "Cover up Clay" was better at it with his mouth than he was covering up in the ring LOL

Mildenberger was a solid puncher, he wasnt lying. Karl got off real good in that fight, punishing ali to the liver and kidneys.

[Dia bando]

Fighters talk smack all the time, ESPECIALLY when it comes to pumping up their own wins.

Muhammad Ali himself is another member of the "Club of Nostalgia Delusion"

Years after his fight with Karl Mildenberger one of the most featherfisted guys to ever step foot into the ring, he later claimed that this Mildenberger was the hardest puncher he fought.

It seems that "Cover up Clay" was better at it with his mouth than he was covering up in the ring LOL

You amaze me how much crap you come out with, are you old enough were you even born when
Ali and co were fighting, I WAS I remember Ali fighting in the 60's when I was a kid.
It seems you like to be controversial, or there again you maybe full of SHIT I myself go for option 2
it seems to fit.

[Master]

Holmes and Ali beat Shavers so why would they say he hit hard?

Holmes could have said Tyson hit me the hardest and Ali could have said Foreman.

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Holmes and Ali beat Shavers so why would they say he hit hard?

Holmes could have said Tyson hit me the hardest and Ali could have said Foreman.

Ali told David Frost a month after the Shavers fight that Earnie had hit hit him so fucking hard in the 2nd and 13th rounds that he slipped a disc in his cervical vertebrae (the small vertebrae of the neck) and his left eardrum had a slight perforation in it.

[Max Power]

Holmes and Ali beat Shavers so why would they say he hit hard?

Holmes could have said Tyson hit me the hardest and Ali could have said Foreman.

Your kidding right? Why would Holmes want to say Earnie hit him hardest and not Tyson?

Well that's pretty bloody obvious isn't it!

Because Holmes BEAT Shavers, by making this claim, he INCREASES his own legacy for surviving and beating the hardest puncher he faced and DOWNGRADES his LOSS against Tyson as being due more to Holmes not being "prime" against Tyson, thus casting doubt about whether Tyson could beat the prime Holmes.

Talking smack to boost your own wins was a HALLMARK trait of golden era fighters. None of them were really any good, so they HAD to.

[Dark Lord Al]

A great quote on Shavers power was by contender James Quick Tillis , he said -

" Man ,Shavers hit so hard he turns goat piss to gasoline " !