Heavyweight fights in the '70's are some of the best ever. I love watching these two go at it. Supreme boxer Holmes vs hard hitting puncher Shavers. You knew ANYTHING could happen with one punch!
Everyone has favorite fights. Holmes/Shavers and Hearns/Hagler were both stunning representatives of pushing forward and reserving nothing. All four fighters had hearts of a lion, no clenching, ferocious intensity. To see heavyweights sustain for the entire fight was astonishing.
I dont think that Shavers had a bad gas tank honsetly. He used tons of his energy and power for a very long period of time in his fights. He just got too much damage from Holmes
Ernie Shavers completely lacked the art of the reduced power swing and the setup punch which comes from touch punches and finesse strikes. All out bashers had better not keep missing like Shavers did if they want to win big fights.
@@wozslater7695Disrespecting either of them is absurd. Holmes is the best ever in my eyes but Ali cant be lower than top 3 unless you dont know shit about boxing
Heavyweight fights in the '70's are some of the best ever. I love watching these two go at it. Supreme boxer Holmes vs hard hitting puncher Shavers. You knew ANYTHING could happen with one punch!
Everyone has favorite fights. Holmes/Shavers and Hearns/Hagler were both stunning representatives of pushing forward and reserving nothing. All four fighters had hearts of a lion, no clenching, ferocious intensity. To see heavyweights sustain for the entire fight was astonishing.
Along with Holmes, Norton and Bowe, Shavers is one of the most forgotten and criminally underrated heavyweights in the history
But I think that he have real respect of his oponente as one of the biggest one punch powerfull shots
@@franciscovillanueva1330 Yeah of course.
Only fans forget and underrate him
@@yotamdude5866 Sadly it happens with people who don't get deep on this sport
@@franciscovillanueva1330 Yeah
This is far better than the crappy heavyweights nowadays by a lot. I miss Howard Cosell also.
Prime Holmes so fast and crisp punches
Fighters actually fighting
Boxers*
😮😮 Jesus, Bless these men ⛪️
Damn .. Shavers swung for the fences religiously. Pure violence .
😂😂😂😂 you don't say, if I swing like that I would watch my entire arm fly away
If only shavers had a steady jab and stamina past the 6th
Shavers.
Great fighter.
Always giving the goats serious problems.
Seems to gas out more than usual in the last round though.
Good... Not great
Stamina and chin is super underrated qualities in boxing
Are*
He used to fight defensive after the 7th round because he had stamina problems. Same thing happend against ali, too.
I dont think that Shavers had a bad gas tank honsetly.
He used tons of his energy and power for a very long period of time in his fights.
He just got too much damage from Holmes
Man those right hooks are brutal
Don't make them like Holmes and Shavers anymore
That gug in black trunk had masters degree in swinging 😂😂😂
The ring announcer doesn't know his nicknames. Holmes was the "Easton Assassin" and not the "Eastern Assassin" as he announces it!
That was like watching Rocky vs Apollo Creed.
Both R Monsters👍👍
That was a war......
Ernie Shavers completely lacked the art of the reduced power swing and the setup punch which comes from touch punches and finesse strikes. All out bashers had better not keep missing like Shavers did if they want to win big fights.
Shavers pegaba duro y aguantaba
Imagine if dudes like this fought hvw8s of today they were killers in this era !!!!
Holmes was 2nd only to Muhammad Ali . who he worked as his sparring partner 8yrs
Oh get real, Ali wasn't even Holmes' water-boy...
@@wozslater7695Disrespecting either of them is absurd.
Holmes is the best ever in my eyes but Ali cant be lower than top 3 unless you dont know shit about boxing
@@yotamdude5866 What's disrepect got to do with it?
@@wozslater7695 "Ali wasnt even Holmes's water-boy"
While Ali is well known for being one of the best if not the best ever
@@yotamdude5866 Sure, Donald Trump made America great again, Joe Biden is building back better, and Ali was the best...
it is obvious that holmes’ reach is much more longer than shavers’. He couldn’t even punch due to distance
they have about almost the same reach. Shavers reach is about 80, Holmes 81
I said that Larry home was a bad mother shut your mouth in that boxing ring
Just seen a real fight...
Shavers missed with some heavy hay makers