Earnie Shavers's Loss To Bob Stallings?

[Southpaw Great]

Just browsing through Earnie's record. And I find it hard to belive he was beat over 10 rounds by Bob Stallings. Stallings record going into the fight was 20-25.

Shavers was also dropped in the 9th round for a 9 count. So he was also nearly knocked out. And this was Shavers at his peak, he would go on to KO Ken Norton.

Is there a reason why Shavers peformed so bad, what are your thoughts on this fight and the result?

[Southpaw Great]

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[Southpaw Stinger]

He had an off night.

[TheGreatA]

http://books.google.fi/books?id=qn2n...llings&f=false

[Southpaw Great]

http://books.google.fi/books?id=qn2n...llings&f=false

Interesting. Even with rust, still a bad loss do.

How do you get info from books online?

[sonnyboyx2]

Shavers was a very limited fighter and is vastly overated, he had an incredible hard right hand punch and nothing else, Shavers fight record is made up of mostly Class D fighters and whenever he stepped up in class Shavers was usually beaten, Shavers decked Larry Holmes yet lost every minute of every round, he lost to an old Muhammad Ali, his best career win is beating a 36yr old Ken Norton

[frankenfrank]

Shavers was a very limited fighter and is vastly overated, he had an incredible hard right hand punch and nothing else, Shavers fight record is made up of mostly Class D fighters and whenever he stepped up in class Shavers was usually beaten, Shavers decked Larry Holmes yet lost every minute of every round, he lost to an old Muhammad Ali, his best career win is beating a 36yr old Ken Norton

But what about Jimmy Ellis and Jimmy Young ?
And Shavers was 34 himself when he KO'd Norton.

[sonnyboyx2]

But what about Jimmy Ellis and Jimmy Young ?
And Shavers was 34 himself when he KO'd Norton.

Shavers beat Young when Young was just a novice of only 10 fights of which he had lost 3 of them.. Ellis was about finished after Frazier hammered him in 1970 and he was then stopped by Muhammad Ali the following year, Young & Ellis did not carry enough punching power to keep Shavers at bay in 1973 whereas Shavers fought Jerry Quarry towards the end of 73 and was destroyed in the opening round in their fight named "Battle of the Big Punchers" at MSG

[Trenchant]

Shavers was a super powerful slugger with a lot of heart, he actually carried power in both hands but his right was his go to punch. Let's face it he didn't have the best of chins and sometimes he would lose focus and pay for it. But I don't think he was overrated , I think most boxing fans see him for what he was. I respect the guy, he was always in the fight in most of his fights win or lose.

[Trenchant]

Shaver's fight with Ron Lyle was awesome, if Lyle hadn't been put down at the end of the round that would have been a KO for shavers. That fight would have been waved off by most refs of today. But alas, Lyle ended up stopping a super gassed Shavers. Shavers wasted too many punches trying to get Lyle out of there missing about 30 haymakers.