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07/23/2008 Archived Entry: "Was The Power of Earnie Shavers Overrated?"
Was The Power of Earnie Shavers Overrated?
By Ted Sares
Courtesy of Eastsideboxing.com
Earnie hit me so hard, it shook my kinfolk back in Africa
-- Muhammad Ali
I wouldn't drive through Philadelphia because I didn't want to take a chance on running into Williams.
-- Ernie Shavers
Earnie Shavers retired with a 74 (KO68)-14 (KO 7)-1 record and an impressive KO percentage of 76.4. Each year his awesome power seems to grow in legendary status, but I for one think it just might be a bit overrated. Sure, icing guys like Ken Norton, Henry Clark, Jimmy Young, and Jimmy Ellis is impressive, but knocking out Lou Bailey (17-35-5), Tommy Howard (2-17-2), Charley Polite (913-21-3), Cleo Daniels (7-24), Johnny Mac (5-6), Art Miller (21-25-2), and Lee Estes (12-23-3) is quite something else. When Shavers stepped down, he usually chilled, but when he stepped up, he had only fair success and was chilled seven times. Still, he won almost twenty seven fights in a row by knockout and tallied twenty four first round wins..
He is rated tenth in Ring Magazine's 100 Greatest Punchers. And below is Boxing Illustrated’s ten Hardest Punchers P4P of All-Time.
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