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

Yeah, silly old cows. Mind you, I didn’t know cattle punching was a literal thing. Go figure.

Update: Couldn’t Break An Egg Earnie has nosed in front of Lights Out Lunatic Leonard by 2 votes. I still haven’t cast my vote yet - and I can be bought. Anyone?

 

Where's the Amir Khan option?

 

I don't understand this thread. Who are we comparing Shavers to ?

 

Yet, somehow, Ali, Holmes (twice), Cobb, Lyle, Tillis and Stander all beat him, Caldwell didn't lose to him, and Bugner got stopped on cuts.

It's always funny to me when a guy like Tillis, who got knocked out 11 times, claims a who guy he (Tillis) beat was actually the hardest puncher.

 

Funny how Tyson went 4-0 against the hardest puncher he claimed (Ruddock, Bruno)
Funny how SRR knocked out the hardest puncher he claimed (Levine)
Funny how Roy got knocked out a lot said Sosa hit the hardest by far
Funny how Liston went 2-0 against the hardest puncher he faced (Cleveland Williams)
Funny how Foreman knocked out the hardest puncher he faced (Ron Lyle)
Funy how Satterfield got knocked out a sh*t load of times but knocked out the hardest puncher he claimed (Cleveland Williams)

He got knocked out

Tilis was knocked out by Thomas, Witherspoon and Page. It depends if you wanna think they hit harder than Shavers and Tyson.
I don't know why the hell a lot of people has a problem when guys won against Shavers said he hit the hardest. There's a lot of boxers who said the guys they won hit the hardest yet no one argued with it, but when they won against Shavers... they're VeRy SusPiCioUs and OveRrAtEd like WTF??? I'm sorry, who went in the ring with Shavers again??

Oh yeah btw, Tilis ranks the hardest punchers like this:
1. Shavers
2. Morrison
3. Tyson

 

It's quite amusing that so much stock is put into size and it's equation to power and strength.

Yet so many are quick to universally accept a 6'0" 200-214 lb in shape man as the hardest hitter of all time.

Wouldn't Shavers punches just bounce off the skulls of modern super heavies? He's cruiser sized....you know cruisers rehydrate to 210-220 lbs right? .name one cruiser today or any 200-215 lb men with bad defense known for destructive mythical punching power?

 

For me, it's the fact that both guys who beat him and guys who got beat by him all rate him the highest.

About the only one who didn't give him credit was Quarry, but Quarry basically curb stomped him. I don't think Earnie ever got a clean shot off against Quarry.

 

Absolutely not. Fury, Wilder, Joshua, and Wlad would have been knocked silly if caught flush, no doubt there.

 

When did this thread turn serious? That's hardly the spirit.

I had the peerless Larmar Clark trump card pulled out my back pocket, ready to play (now, quietly slides card back in lest anyone notices)

Here's a thought: sometimes when fighters are hit sufficiently hard for a KO they don't have a lot to say about after the fact, a total wipe out of mind and body. After being leveled by Hearns, I don't recall that Duran said anything like seeing the white light beckoning him, angels singing, harps playing, etc. - you know, the whole superlative nine yards.

Actually, when they did peel Roberto off the deck it appeared that he might've said "What happened" but other pundits have said that wasn't possible since he didn't speak of word of English (I don't know that for a fact though). Maybe he asked "What's for dinner?" or "Mamma?"

 

This is a great post!
The takeaway is that people often lack intellectual rigor: punch power does *not* show you are even likely to win, let alone cannot be KOed yourself.
Just like punching technique, accuracy, volume, combinations can mean much more than the single factor of raw power.
It is childish to assume that cartoonish power must mean you win-maybe you rely on it too much & thus develop other abilities less, such as happened with Ruddock.
By the way there was one other fighter Foreman formally fough that he put up there with Lyle-& WIlliams-& he kocked out Cooney too.

Now size is important & ir roughly correlates with power.
But not exactly, & there are diminishing returns after a certain point.
So yes a 6' 210 lb. fighter might well hit the hardest ever. Or maybe it was some SHW.
But just derisively adding "with poor defense" betrays ignorance-what do those skills have to do with how hard someone can hit?

The fact that *at least* 11 people said Shavers hit the hardest-& they cumaltively faced some of the hardest punchers around, Foreman, Tyson, & many others-& I am aware of *nobody* who absorbed real shots from Shavers who did not name him as the hardest hitter, win or lose...

Yeah he almost certainly did have that outlier level of power born of genetics, practice/technique, speed of delivery, heavy hands, long arms etc.

 

A Foreman-Shavers 1970'S scrap might very well have been another FOREMAN/LYLE. monies on Foreman of course, but like they say anything can happen with punchers like these guys!

 

Yes. That other guy punches like my wife.

Uh. Back up this train. I take it all back before she decks me with her mystery punch. (The mystery is: "Will I ever get to my feet again again?")

 

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