Power-Earnie Shavers

His fight with heavyweight prospect roy tiger williams was supposedly a foreman-lyle type affair, williams was 6'5 235lb with a lot of power.......he floored shavers in the 10th final round standing 8 count shavers said in his book he didnt know where he was, then shavers suddenly caught williams with a right coming in and williams fell back to the ropes out on his feet and shavers moved in and finished him off late in the round to win the fight by the tip of his nail. only time roy tiger williams was ever stopped.

 

Williams was overated as a puncher, he could not stop weak chinned Richard Dunn who was Ko'd 10 times 4 in the 1st rd, in fact he lost a decision to Dunn. Shavers had power but when he moved up in class, his power was not as potent or I should say his one punch power failed to finish a number of guys, i think his lack of stamina played a large part in this.

 

Shavers-Cobb is one of those rare occasions when a boxer makes his opponent punch himself by wailing away... On the boxer's chin. Of course, I use "boxer" in the non-literal sense when talking about Tex. Shavers basically got tired of landing flush shots on Cobb and puffed out like a rhino having a heart-attack.

Come to think of it, Shavers was on his way to losing a UD against Holmes in their rematch, but Holmes never really staggered him. It was just that Holmes was capable of putting up an intense pace into the championship rounds and Shavers just couldn't hang with that. The ref stopped it because Shavers didn't have enough energy left to stand properly.

As for Williams-Dunn, how many shots did Tiger actually land on Dunn? Richie was no defensive master, but at a lower class he was pretty hard to hit.

 

I've heard that Shaver's made a boxing glove explode from hitting someone so hard.

No joke.

 

Watching Cobb basically karate chop a leaning over defenseless Shavers dozens of times was priceless.

Shavers was hitting him so hard Cobb's entire body was spinning around like a top.

 

Shavers was also what 37 years old and pretty far removed from his best days when he fought cobb. shavers was at his best in the early-mid 1970s, he seemed to be faster and have better stamina. his stamina got horrible as he got older.

 

Love that fight.

 

An important date for fellow Texan Randall "Tex" Cobb:

"Graduated with a BS degree from the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday January 25, 2008."

 

Wasn't he kicked out of college in the early 70's for his radical behavior? I guess at one point he was on the football team. One night the coach walked past the dorms and saw Tex stark naked on the roof of a frat house with a flaming bow and arrow pointed at a rival dorm, screaming " you boys ready to die?"

 

Dunn was ko'd by

Danny MacAlinden KO 1
Billy Aird KO 6
George Dulaire KO1
Rocky Campell KO 1
Bunny Johnson KO10
Jimmy Young KO8
Ngozik Ekwelum(his record was 2-1-2) KO7
Jose Urtain KO4
ALI**(how did Ali fight this guy) KO5
Joe Bugner KO1
Kallie Knoetzee KO5

these are all the guys who KO"D Dunn(who was not to hard to hit) BIG Chin Dunn won a UD over Tiger Williams and I think if the "Tiger"had any serious power it would not have taken much to KO Dunn