earnie shavers: the hardest heavyweight puncher ever?

[Beanflicker]

My opinion of Shavers....

[Bill Paxtom]

Easy there #1 Joe Bugner Fan.


Earnie deposited Joe on the floor in Round 1, and busted him apart in Round 2.

'Old Man Shavers',
Was on his way to giving Joe a First Class Ass-Whipping.

Joe Bugner > "The biggest hitter for one-shot. No doubt it was Earnie Shavers."

[Spicoli]

Thinking Shavers fills them out better. Besides, its common knowledge Mayweather wears a silk thong

[Max Power]

Up until a week ago it would have been a landslide for Mayweather.

Who would have knew there would be a sudden resurgence of a club fighter from 40 years past.

Gutsy stuff boys.

Next flavour of the month?

Brian Nielssen, best HW of all time!

[Max Power]

Listen to me very carefully here @Bill Paxtom.

I am Australian.

And I can vouch for everybody in boxing circles I know here young AND OLD, that Bugner is a LAUGHING STOCK even over here!

He is a COMPLETE BUM!

Get over Shavers!

[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

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.

Well my opinion never really changes unless on those rare occasions I am convinced otherwise by logic I can only accept.

Clearly this is not the case. The guy could barely box, all of those childhood memories of yours have been blurred by your connection with that era.

I've only seen Muhammad Ali on reruns, and I used to hear all the stories from guys just like you. It's easy to buy into hype.

But when I finally seen him for myself and all the shit house opponents he fought AND struggled against too. I could not BELIEVE how gullible people must have been to swallow such garbage.

[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.

[Max Power]

Let's put it differently.

Shavers HAS to be defended at all costs by the fighters of his era because some ducked him, one lost to him (2 if you include Ali) and the others STRUGGLED with him.

Shavers HAS to be defended at all costs by the golden era fans because he stands at an important pillar of the mythology so if Shavers is bummified (as he really should be), the whole era is bummified with him.

So what would happen if Shavers took on a guy like Arreola, who has failed 2ce now to become a champ?

Arreola would savagely waste Shavers within the 1st round even EASIER than he did Seth Mitchell.

Everybody knows it!

Arreola has an iron chin, I am CERTAIN he could take Earnie's best punch and shake it off, assuming he could even LAND it on an opponent as good as Chris! Completely objectively, Chris has a harder chin than ANY boxer in the 1970's, even harder than Geroge Chuvalo!

Nostalgists might be gasping reading this now, because Chuvalo was never dropped, but Arreola was recently stopped by Stiverne, but that is ONLY because they have not factored in that Bermane Stiverne hits several times harder than the hardest of punchers of the 1970's, harder than Shavers, harder than Foreman, not by a little bit, but by a VERY great deal! Chuvalo was never TESTED against the kind of power that Arreola has to contend with today!

Back to Shavers, Arreola is 6'4" and weighs 240lbs, Shavers never ONCE beat a good opponent like Arreola as big as that! And Arreola HIMSELF is a devastating mauler and hard puncher. He would overwhelm Earnie very early and beat him up more savagely than he has EVER been beaten before and crack that heartless, chinless bum in half in less time than it took me to write this thread!

[Spicoli]

Dude. This shit is just getting weak now

[EL DINAMITA]

They both can hit like motherfuckers but i believe that arreola can absorb more punishment.

Arreola knocks that bumass shavers the fuck out.

Shavers has a better chance against butterbean or botha.

I dont know how many of you dudes watched " Thunderbox " back in the days but there were many fighters like shavers on that show lol

[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 " !

[Hulk]

Enough.

[imp]

Steve Collins is back in action next year..don't forget the Celtic warrior.

[brocktonblockbust]

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 " !

DAMN RIGHT. TILLIS IS RIGHT ON TARGET THERE. THAT IS FUNNY AS SHIT. LOVE IT !!!! LMFAO

[brocktonblockbust]

eARNIE tHE bLACK-aSS dESTROYER sHAVERS is the only damn one of the 3 that deserves praise.