Earnie Shavers’ Right Cross
The single hardest punch in the history of the sport. There may have been bigger, physically stronger men than “The Acorn,” but no one threw the right with more thunderous power and murderous intent than Earnie Shavers.
He launched it by putting everything behind the shot, knowing if it landed cleanly, there was no one he could not knockout with it.
Granite chinned opponents like Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes and Randall “Tex” Cobb said Shavers hit them harder than any man ever did.
Shavers was named the “Puncher of the Century” by the International Boxing Association. Most people in boxing circles still consider Shavers the hardest puncher of all-time and his right cross was responsible for nearly every one of his knockouts.
