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Earnie Dee Shaver (August 31, 1944 – September 1, 2022), [1] best known as Earnie Shavers, was an American professional boxer who competed between 1969 and 1995. A two-time world heavyweight championship challenger, he is known as one of the hardest punchers in heavyweight boxing history.
In 2017, he set the world record for the hardest punch ever recorded on the PowerKube, at 129,161 franklin (a unit used by the PowerKube that combines power and energy). [46] [17] [47] In the highest profile fight of his career, Ngannou faced veteran Alistair Overeem on 2 December 2017, at UFC 218. [48]
After the fight, Holmes said the punch Shavers hit him with to drop him was the hardest he’d ever been hit. Shavers wasn’t a big man for a heavyweight at 6 feet tall and around 210 pounds.
On November 6, 1946, Levine challenged Sugar Ray Robinson at the Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. [4] Barely able to rise from a nine count in the fifth, Robinson later claimed Levine hit him with the hardest punch of his career, a powerful left hook to the jaw.
Another angle of the fight shows how Ramírez hit Anderson with the hardest punch MLB has seen since Rougned Odor leveled José Bautista in 2016: Jose Ramirez knocked down Tim Anderson with a ...
Round 2: Green throws a hard right through the guard of Watpool. It was a beautifully vicious punch. It was a beautifully vicious punch. The action picks up heavily with both fighters throwing ...
Robert James Fitzsimmons (26 May 1863 – 22 October 1917) was a British professional boxer who was the sport's first three-division world champion. [1] [2] He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett (the man who beat John L. Sullivan), and he is in The Guinness Book of World Records as the lightest heavyweight champion, weighing just 167 pounds when he won the title. [3]
Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (c. 1930 – December 30, 1970), nicknamed "The Big Bear", [4] was an American professional boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970. A dominant contender of his era, he became the undisputed world heavyweight champion in 1962 after knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round, repeating the knockout the following year in defense of the title; in the latter fight he ...