Which other heavyweights in history could have taken the shots Ali took in the Shavers fight?

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  1. 70sFan865

    70sFan865 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Don't bother, this guy believes that he would beat HW champions. He's just a troll.
     
  2. Brockton Rock

    Brockton Rock Member Full Member

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    Like a high school basketball player who spent most of his time on the bench thinking he could beat Hondo in his prime one on one I suppose lol.
     
  3. Johnny_B

    Johnny_B Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    As I've already pointed out, punching power is determined by speed and mass. So if you take a bigger guy than Shavers, which has similar speed and technique, he will punch harder. It's basic physics.
    As for my skill, it was decent enough, but some were just much better, they were boxing since they were 5 or 6 years old. They simply had the ability to outpoint you.
     
  4. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Walter, do you really think local amateur junior competition is compariable to the competition level of world title champions?
     
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  5. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Then why don`t most heavies have Shaver`s KO percentage? Ali was finished and really easy to hit at that point, he was really out of shape, no other fighter hurt Ali like that from that point after, not even Frazier who landed far more shots on Ali than Shavers did in that war in Manilla. Who do you feel was the most powerful heavyweight of all-time then?
     
  6. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Did he really say that? He`s as deluded as my uncle was, he used to be a boxer and told me he would have beaten Ali and Frazier, some people really lose perspective, these guys were elite sportsmen, boxing is the most underrated sport of them all.
     
  7. 70sFan865

    70sFan865 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    If yoi really think that punching power is all about Newton laws, then you are delusional. Physics student tells you that ;)
     
  8. destruction

    destruction Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Vitali
    McCall
    Holyfield

    All possessed A* jaws and would be as durable AF in any era
     
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  9. Johnny_B

    Johnny_B Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    No, I don't think that's comparable, but I was just explaining why I didn't do better back then.
    Plus what has that got to do with the level I am at now ?!
     
  10. Johnny_B

    Johnny_B Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Most heavies didn't fight small men and bums, that's why they don't have Shavers KO percentage.
    To further elaborate on that, if guys like Wlad, Lewis, Tyson etc would have faced the exact same opposition as Shavers, they would have probably KO'd everyone.
    Frazier did not land power punches on Ali as Shavers did.
    As for the most powerful HW, are you talking in terms of punching power or in terms of raw power, as in being able to outmuscle people ?
     
  11. Johnny_B

    Johnny_B Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    It is about physics.
     
  12. 70sFan865

    70sFan865 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    What do you know about physics?
     
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  13. Johnny_B

    Johnny_B Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    More than enough. They invented weight classes for a reason.
     
  14. 70sFan865

    70sFan865 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Then you should know that throwing a punch is not the same as shooting a bullet. You need to time your opponent well, you have to land cleanly, you have to use proper technique.

    Technically, you are right - force is simply a mass×velocity. The problem is that it doesn't mean the same as "puncher's mass×hand velocity". There are way too many variables in real boxing match to use such a simple reasoning. When you throw a punch to a static bag, you can use that reasoning but not when you're fighting against a moving target who also attacks you.

    You'd know that physics are not that easy if you've ever have any experience with physics experiments.
     
  15. choklab

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    it depends really if you think being able to take those shots are the difference between becoming champion or not?

    if the answer is yes, then I think a lot of champions would have stopped Ernie before having to take those kinds of shots.

    Ernie was had a tremendous wallop on him, but he was not necessarily great enough to compete with better champions at their best.

    Ali himself was pretty near the end. Maybe that’s the only reason he was able to tag Ali like that?

    I suspect most champions beat Ernie before he can tag them like he tagged Ali.

    Frazier, Foreman, Liston, Marciano, Louis, Dempsey, Tunney, Johnson, Jeffies, Ingo, Schmeling, Baer, Sharkey, Tyson all beat Ernie.

    he has a chance with Leon, Primo, Braddock And Shannon Briggs though. But o wouldn’t necessarily bet on Shavers.