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    Earnie Dee Shaver (August 31, 1944 – September 1, 2022), best known as Earnie Shavers, was an American professional boxer who competed between 1969 and...
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  • Muhammad Ali vs. Earnie Shavers was a professional boxing match contested on September 29, 1977, for the undisputed heavyweight championship. The fight...
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    defeated Buster Mathis, Oscar Bonavena, Jimmy Ellis, Vicente Rondón, Earnie Shavers, Joe Bugner, Gregorio Peralta and Scott LeDoux, but is best known for...
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    (the man he defeated in 1978 for the WBC championship), Muhammad Ali, Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver, Gerry Cooney, Tim Witherspoon, Carl Williams, and Marvis...
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  • world heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson and top contenders Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers, Brian London, Thad Spencer, Buster Mathis, Randy Neumann, Jack Bodell...
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  • shavers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shavers may refer to: Charlie Shavers (1920–1971), American swing era jazz trumpet player China Shavers (born...
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    Ali, Joe Frazier, Ron Lyle, Jimmy Ellis, Manuel Ramos, Chuck Wepner, Earnie Shavers, Henry Cooper, Brian London, Mac Foster, Rudie Lubbers, Eduardo Corletti...
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  • wins over notable heavyweights of his era such as Bernardo Mercado, Earnie Shavers, and Leon Spinks. He was ranked in the global top 10 heavyweight boxers...
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  • inexperienced Young was matched against contender Earnie Shavers in what was only his 11th professional fight. Shavers, who at that time had a 42–2 record dealt...
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    taking on legendary puncher Earnie Shavers in another compulsory WBC title eliminator fight in Las Vegas on March 23, 1979. Shavers took the former champion...
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  • casting for Lang proved difficult, with real boxers Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers attached to the project at various points. Mr. T was hired in 1981 after...
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    training Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Bob Foster, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Earnie Shavers and James Tillis. Born in Benoit, Mississippi, Moore was raised in St...
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  • Ron Lyle and George Foreman in 1971 and Earnie Shavers in 1972. In a 2020 gym interview, Caldwell credited Shavers as the hardest puncher he had ever faced...
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    jazz standard. Shavers's father, a distant relative of Fats Navarro, was from the Shavers family of Key West, Florida. Charlie Shavers was a cousin of...
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    000 for his fight with Ken Norton, and $50,000 of $200,000 for facing Earnie Shavers, and claims King cut his purses for bouts with Muhammad Ali, Randall...
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  • Stander had scored a fifth-round knockout victory over hard-punching Earnie Shavers in 1970, and a decision win over contender Thad Spencer in 1971. An...
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    struggling in a 10th title defence against hard-hitting contender Earnie Shavers. Ali was hurt in the second round but ultimately won the fight by another...
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    officer Warren A. Thompson, explorer Hank Williams, country singer Earnie Shavers, hardest hitting heavyweight boxer Janie Shores, Alabama Supreme Court...
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    1973, he fought Earnie Shavers, who was 44–2 (43 KOs), at Madison Square Garden. Ellis, ranked fourth by the WBA, stunned Shavers in the first round...
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  • decision to Michael Spinks, fought such fighters as Tim Witherspoon, Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver, Trevor Berbick, Leon Spinks and, most notably, Muhammad...
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    Alfredo Evangelista in May 1977, Ali struggled in his next fight against Earnie Shavers that September, getting pummeled a few times by punches to the head...
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  • knockout over dangerous contender and multiple-time world title challenger Earnie Shavers and was ranked as the number one contender to Larry Holmes' WBC belt...
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  • a multimillion-dollar firm Earnie Shavers (1944–2022), American retired professional boxer born Earnie Shaver Eddy Shaver (1962–2000), American country-rock...
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  • sanctioned an eliminator bout between their number-three ranked contender Earnie Shavers and the number-four ranked contender Larry Holmes. As it was not known...
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  • 12-26 1975". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 29 March 2019. Did Earnie Shavers or George Foreman hit harder? Leroy Caldwell, who fought both, gives...
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    Ron Stander by TKO in the 7th round in 1980, and the hard punching Earnie Shavers by ten-round decision in 1982. Tillis fought for the last time in 2001...
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    Daniels had earlier drawn with Jerry Quarry and Stander had knocked out Earnie Shavers. Frazier lost his undefeated record of 29–0 and his world championship...
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  • Serrano Frédéric Serrat Archie Sexton Sam Sexton Jack Sharkey Tom Sharkey Earnie Shavers Kuniaki Shibata Ronnie Shields Yoshio Shirai Tony Sibson Mzukisi Sikali...
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  • he trained many other top fighters of the 1970s and 1980s including Earnie Shavers, Aaron Pryor and Greg Page. When Mike Tyson was dethroned as heavyweight...
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    on September 28, 1976 def. Alfredo Evangelista on May 16, 1977 def. Earnie Shavers on September 29, 1977 The Ring 30 Leon Spinks WBA, and WBC February...
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