why is earnie shavers considered the hardest puncher of all time,who did he destroy?

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  1. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Are you trying to say something to me?
     
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    Scrap21 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    You really are a ******. They not even saying shavers is the best guy they fought. He's just the hardest puncher. What is so complicated about what they are saying? :huh
     
  3. eltirado

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    Because they ALL got stopped in their losses :tired
     
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    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Darnell Boone = Earnie Shavers
     
  5. The Mongoose

    The Mongoose I honor my bets banned

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    Your speculation that he would be a top contender in a weak era seemed to imply he was not one in his own era.

    BTW, the late 70s were not a strong era at all. Shavers would run into the same road blocks now as he did then.
     
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    What hall of famer did Boone ever beat?
     
  7. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    No ,you misunderstood. It was a response to the people claiming he was just a 'bum' and a 'journeyman' and that he would be the same in this era.

    Shavers would clean house in this era.
     
  8. Pimp C

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    That's good enough for me.
     
  9. The Mongoose

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    Only great fighters clean house. Shavers would win some and lose some as he did in his own era.
     
  10. dinovelvet

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    Untrue.
    Ottka, DM, and the Clinchko are prime examples.
     
  11. The Mongoose

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    Regardless of your opinion, Wlad is going to go down as a great. DM didn't clean house but he has a case, he beat Virgil Hill, who was a great fighter. Ottke didn't clean house.

    And Shavers was erratic, even during his prime, that isn't going to be cured by moving him into a new era. He made Quarry look like Foreman and Norton look like a punk. He destroyed Jimmy Ellis but got schooled by a nobody named Bob Stallings. He murdered Young one fight, was lucky to get a draw the next. Thus is the way of Shavers.
     
  12. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Wlads lack of popularity reflects my opinion. And Wlad is about to make it even worse for himself when he does another disgracful Povetkin job on Leapai.
     
  13. The Mongoose

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    Of course..you want to focus on Wlad. Your favorite subject you can't stop writing about.

    This is a Shavers thread. Address my comments on him.
     
  14. HerolGee

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    getting KOed is not the same as applying the most force.
     
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    Who's the hardest puncher of all time P4P?