Fury at his best wins. Shavers lost a lot and gassed out easily. Fury has survived hard punchers multiple times.
Earnie Shavers beats Fury because of a bias toward older fighters and most fans being Fury haters now. Cause you know, Tex Cobb and Bob Stallings can do things Tyson Fury couldn’t dream of….. /endthread
Fury... easily. Shavers fought in an era of mostly 190-220# HWs. No question he was a big puncher (for his era), but with a limited engine and mediocre at best punch resistance. His only chance vs. Fury and the other top current HWs is to catch them flush and early. 1 in 10 is generous. Many here have a fetish to dump on current to recent HWs and glorify those from many decades ago*. I don't understand why many here follow HW boxing or even boxing in general. Many who post here are very negative and overly critical. And most of them have never been in anything more strenuous than a long video game session. I'm old enough when guys - even a few among the girls - would have the occasional fight during school in the playground or after school in the neighborhood. * It's based on nostalgia fumes with a healthy dash of sour grapes that the US no linger dominates the HW scene. Another odd behavior that the critics of the recent to current HW scene don't seem to understand is the boxing axiom - a good/great big man beats a good/great smaller man. You know, why there's weight divisions. The critics will say something inane like - styles make fights. Uh, well sure but it doesn't override the above axiom, which is just common sense. HWs have generally gotten bigger over the past 100+ years. Moreover, their skill sets are not so much (if any) worse than the smaller HWs to offset their greater size, strength, punch. Ofc you can cherry pick and come up with exceptions, but exceptions don't disprove the overriding trend. "If it was for 15 rounds " Then modern SHW would train for 15 rounds. But more importantly the smaller HWs of long ago aren't going to be around most of the time for rounds 13-15. Maybe if they run for 12 rounds they can.
Only Holmes, Ali and Chuvalo could get up after that famous devastating overhand by Shavers on Holmes. Neither Old Foreman or Tex Cobb or McCall imo. Unless the referee had counted Fury until 30 seconds. Furys defence of today is wretched. Shavers by frightening KO.
Fury gets knocked down a lot. He’s never been knocked down by someone who hits like Shavers. If the novice MMA guy can sit Fury then Shavers would end him And Wilder gobblers, spare yourself the effort and don’t bother replying. There are more stiffs on Wilder’s CV than a NYC morgue. Shavers was a bigger puncher than Wilder, even in your wettest Wilder dream.
He’s been in the ring and beaten or been competitive against much better fighters than the fat fake gypsy.