Does Earnie Shavers hit harder than [some other boxer who also hit hard]?

Jerry Quarry stopped him in one, which means there's no way he could hit hard.

 

Benny’s winning at this moment. I’ll hold back my selection to see if this trend continues. Earnie might need my vote in sympathy.

 

If you stood a Holstein up on its hind legs and gave Foreman, Shavers and Cooney one free liver shot each at it, that cow would probably say Shavers hit the hardest.

I might have read that interview in KO Magazine back in the 80's.

 

Inside track: What’s His Name has a reputation for being a later bolter. Don’t say you weren’t told. Get in before the odds shorten.

 

That’s udderly ridiculous. Everyone knows cows can’t talk and if they could they’d say thank god Benny Leonard wasn’t allowed to do same.

 

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Probably true. The cow would probably just stand around eating grass like a stupid idiot.

 

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Yes....always yes.

 

I think maybe he hits as hard as others but maybe not quite as hard as other others..

 

Freaking ELEVEN people said he hit the hardest, and all of those eleven people had tasted other punchers besides Shavers including George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston, Ron Lyle, Mike Tyson, Gerry Cooney, Jeff Merritt, Gerrie Coatzee, Frank Bruno and Tommy Morrison.

Here are everybody who said Shavers hit the hardest:
Muhammad Ali
Larry Holmes
Tex Cobb
Ron Lyle
James Tilis
Leroy Caldwell
Ron Stander
Joe Bugner
Ken Norton
Jimmy Young
Charley Polite