Earnie Shavers!

[the giant one]

Shavers/Lyle was one of my favorite heavyweight fights ever that i have seen

[Southpaw Stinger]

Shavers/Lyle was one of my favorite heavyweight fights ever that i have seen

Yeh it was real exciting.

[catskills23]

Tyson would have beat poor Earnie to death in 1 round...Shavers isn't that great.

Shavers hit Randy Tex Cobb with a right in the neck so hard it broke his left ankle.

Larry Holmes thought he was struck by lighting when Shavers hit him, probably would have been better off.

i have never heard such bull****. if shavers hit as hard as hard as everyone thinks he did then how come he never killed anyone in the ring and shavers hit cobb so hard that it broke his ankle . How could a punch in his neck break hgis ankle unless he fell on his ankle which wouldnt be a direct of the punch anyway. Shavers power has reached mythological prorportions . There are stories going around that he caused ali brain damage after their first fight and that he hospitalised sparring partners but i never see any documented evidence to back this up and shavers never knocked anyone out with a good chin . He only ever knocked out bums .

[joeytrimble]

he stoped jimmy young something ali and foreman cant say they did

[Southpaw Stinger]

i have never heard such bull****. if shavers hit as hard as hard as everyone thinks he did then how come he never killed anyone in the ring and shavers hit cobb so hard that it broke his ankle . How could a punch in his neck break hgis ankle unless he fell on his ankle which wouldnt be a direct of the punch anyway. Shavers power has reached mythological prorportions . There are stories going around that he caused ali brain damage after their first fight and that he hospitalised sparring partners but i never see any documented evidence to back this up and shavers never knocked anyone out with a good chin . He only ever knocked out bums .

hmmmm why helped the doomed?

[catskills23]

he stoped jimmy young something ali and foreman cant say they did

well mike tyson is the only man to ever put michael spinks and pinklon thomas on the canvas.

[Brockton Lip]

well mike tyson is the only man to ever put michael spinks and pinklon thomas on the canvas.

No way catskills, I heard your mother did too

[hemichromis]

i have never heard such bull****. if shavers hit as hard as hard as everyone thinks he did then how come he never killed anyone in the ring and shavers hit cobb so hard that it broke his ankle . How could a punch in his neck break hgis ankle unless he fell on his ankle which wouldnt be a direct of the punch anyway. Shavers power has reached mythological prorportions . There are stories going around that he caused ali brain damage after their first fight and that he hospitalised sparring partners but i never see any documented evidence to back this up and shavers never knocked anyone out with a good chin . He only ever knocked out bums .

yeh your right shavers couldn't punch for ****! tyson is the hardest puncher ever i heard he knocked out an elephant than ate its trunk!

[butterfly1964]

I am watching Earnie Shavers Vs. Larry Holmes, and I have seen Shavers Vs. Lyle, Norton, Young, Ali, Holmes, Ellis and a few more. What a warrior, its like taking the chin, stamina, and boxing skills of Evander Holyfield and tramsforming it into Punching Power, keeping the massive heart!

So my question is, would you consider Earnie Shavers, the hardest hitter in recorded history, a all-time great? I would.

I wouldn't say he was an all-time great. I would put him in the top 100 of heavies.

[Yogi]

I wouldn't say he was an all-time great. I would put him in the top 100 of heavies.

Out of curiosity and nothing else...

Do you have a top 100 list available, Butterfly?