Does Earnie Shavers possess heavy hands or explosive punching power?

Heavy hands.

 

mix of both, which is how Tex Cobb once described him, saying everything he hit you w/ felt like a wrecking ball. he reminds me a bit of Marciano in the Norton fight, though he obviously lacked other of The Rock's attributes.

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Clearly more explosive than heavyhanded. Although every HW is heavyhanded to some degree.

 

Maybe both things?

 

Foreman had ‘heavy hands’, so did Lyle, modern example being Bakole.
Shavers, Sanders, Wilder etc had explosive power, they could deliver fast punches that were also hard, which is more dangerous and you can’t see coming, which usually comes with a stamina trade off being more fast twitch dominant.

 

To me, the Norton KO is as much an example of heavy hands as explosive power. Shavers' short little punches to the ribs & arms had Norton frozen & reduced to a defensive shell even before Shavers broke thru w/ his best powerpunches.

 

I voted heavy hands, as I feel that describes him ever so slightly better than an explosive puncher.

Shavers power had slightly more in common with a heavy handed Foreman type, than a fast, explosive Tyson type, puncher, just, imo.

If there had been an option for both, however, that option would have attracted my vote.

 

He always possessed heavy hands, but learned to be explosive over time. Watch him put Bernardo Mercado down in their classic slugfest.
Left to the body, right to the head at 1:09.

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I’m among those who would say both heavy handed and explosive but if forced to pick just one then I might just tip over to heavy handed but with the qualification that I think Earnie’s hand speed and punching technique lent more to his power than they are generally afforded.

 

Yes.