The Ten Hardest Punches I Ever Threw by Earnie Shavers

Earnie names his top ten hardest punchers he threw.

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10.Harold Carter ( 4/12/ 78 )
9. Bernardo Mercado ( 8/3/80 )
8 .James Quick Tillis ( 11/6/82 )
7 . Henry Clark ( 28/9/76 )
6. Howard Smith (16/4/76 )
5. Roy Tiger Williams ( 11/12/76 )
4 .Jimmy Ellis ( 18/6/73 )
3. Kenny Norton (23/03/79 )
2. Muhammad Ali (29/9/76 )
1. Larry Holmes (28/09/79 )

 

Was Ali the only one not to go down from one of Earnie’s best shots? Some chin Ali had.

 

A lot of Ali's chin was in his testes satchel.

 

Insane really.

 

Henry Clark had a very underrated jaw. He may have been stopped, but never went down, including against Shavers.

 

Did anyone have a better jaw than Ali?

 

I actually have watched Shavers-Clark 2 (I remember it was the first time I heard Jerry Quarry commentate and I was very impressed by him). I thought Earnie dropped and stopped Clark early but I stand corrected. That’s impressive by Clark as Liston couldn’t drop him either.

 

Might be the 70’s McCall.

 

The right hand bomb that Shavers landed against Ali in their 1977 fight would have knocked out a woolly mammoth--how Ali survived that shot I'll never know!!

 

McCall. Maybe Vitali

 

Although Shavers has written that he knocked him down and out, Clark was never off his feet but stopped by the ref in 2 rounds