Leroy Caldwell suffered second-round stoppage defeats to both George Foreman and Earnie Shavers, but one of them punched so ...

We are losing boxing royalty. The heavyweights of the 1970s arguably represented the very best the sport has seen. Great champions, fighting each other, once, twice, three times, winning, losing, ...

CLEVELAND — Earnie Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, has died. He was 78. Former British boxer and close ...

Earnie Shavers, who earned a reputation as the hardest puncher in the game during a golden era of heavyweight boxing in the 1970s, died Thursday, a day after he turned 78. The cause of death is ...

Earnie Shavers, a hard-punching heavyweight boxer who stood toe to toe in title shots against Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, died Thursday. He was 78. Shavers’ death was reported by his friend, former ...

Before there was Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis or Deontay Wilder, there was a heavyweight fighter whose punching power had even Muhammad Ali shook. That man was Ernie Shavers—he was alternately called “the ...

Earnie Shavers, a hard-punching heavyweight boxer who stood toe to toe in title shots against Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, died Thursday. He was 78. Earnie Shavers, a hard-punching heavyweight boxer ...