Earnie Shavers - ESB's Undisputed king of power.

With Shavers now winning by 4 votes in Fergy's current thread and having won the same poll even in General at the end of last year it is time to recognize ESB's undisputed king of power.

I will repost the list of quotes i put up many years ago in an old thread for the enjoyment of current members to get some well deserved Acorn love rolling. The thread isn't one for debate, the fat lady has sung and is on her way back home for a well deserved rest. The time is for recognition of all things Earnie, power at the forefront.

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  : "Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him."
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  : "Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis."
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  : "Earnie could punch you in the neck with his right hand and break your ankle."
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  : "Earnie hit me so hard, he shook my kinfolk back in Africa"
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  : "Hey man, that's the hardest I've ever been hit in my life. And George Foreman could punch, but none of them could hit like Earnie Shavers did. When he hit you, the lights went out. I can laugh about it now, but at the time,it wasn't funny."
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  : "Hardest he's ever been hit: Earnie Shavers. The ground came up and met me. That's all I remember."
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  : "Shavers hit so hard he turned horse p*ss into gasoline! He hit me so hard he brought back tomorrow. When he hit me… I was seeing pink rats and cats and animals smoking cigarettes. I was in the land of make-believe."
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  : "The baddest motherf*cker I fought was Earnie Shavers. That motherf*cker can make July into June and made me jump over the motherf*ckin' moon. That motherf*cker hit so hard, he'll bring back tomorow. He hit me so hard, I thought I was on the corner smoking cigarette and eating a spam sandwich. That's how hard that motherf*cker hit."

 

Here's Leroy Caldwell's impressions of Shaver's, Foreman and Lyle. Well worth the listen.

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It's a tribute thread!!!! Tribute away!!! Put forth thy anecdotes!!!

 

Joe Bugner

Best puncher: Ernie Shavers. He was an enormous puncher

 

I'm trying to assemble other quotes from the likes of Lyle, Young, Polite and others to this thread. I'm sure we had heaps years ago but am struggling, so far, to find them.