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  After losing to Muhammad Ali on September 29, 1977, Earnie Shavers didn’t lose a step in his career. His fine performance against the champ actually helped it, so much so that he was matched with Larry Holmes on March 25, 1978 in Las Vegas, with the winner promised at shot at the WBC championship. […]

  After the humiliating knockout loss to Jerry Quarry on December 14, 1973, Earnie Shavers stayed out of the ring for five months. He met Roy Wallace at the Civic Auditorium in San Jose on May 16, 1974, and knocked him out in one round. It would be yet another six months of inactivity until

Earnie Shavers was born as Earnie Dee Shaver on August 31, 1944 in Garland, Alabama. His family moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where he was a football and track star. Earnie didn’t start boxing until he was 22, and had a short amateur career that saw him win the 1969 National AAU title. It was obvious

This is my list of the Top 20 Heavyweights of All Time.

   After losing his shot at Jimmy Ellis’ heavyweight title on September 14, 1968, Floyd Patterson took the year 1969 off. In fact, he did not have a fight for two whole years, when he finally returned on September 15, 1970 against Charley Green at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Floyd won the

After losing to Muhammad Ali on November 22, 1965 in Las Vegas, Floyd Patterson took ten months off from boxing. He didn’t fight again until September 20, 1966 when he traveled to Wembley, England to fight Henry Cooper. Floyd knocked Cooper down three times, and stopped him in four rounds, to put his name back

After his second consecutive humiliating knockout loss Sonny Liston in the summer of 1963, Floyd Patterson went home to regroup. He returned to the ring against Santo Amonti on January 6, 1964 in Stockholm, and stopped him in the eighth round. Six months later saw Floyd take on the rough Eddie Machen in Solna, and

      Despite his manager Cus D’Amato’s objections, Floyd Patterson agreed to fight Sonny Liston at Comiskey Park in Chicago on September 25, 1962. The hard-punching Liston was just an 8-5 betting favorite going in, which seems ridiculous to me. If I was a fight fan at the time, I’d have rustled up every

After knocking out Pete Rademacher in his pro debut on August 22, 1957, Floyd Patterson fought only once in 1958. The August 18, 1958 bout at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles saw Floyd defeat Roy Harris rather easily. Another nine months passed by before Patterson fought again, this time in Indianapolis against Brian London on

Floyd Patterson was born on January 4, 1935 in Waco, North Carolina. His family later moved to Brooklyn, New York, an entirely different world from the country world of the south. After a troubled youth of petty theft and minor crimes, Floyd found boxing at age 14. Just three years later, he won the gold