Earnie Shavers, One of Boxing's Hardest Punchers, Dead at 78

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 Dark Destroyer” or “The Puncher of the Century”, died yesterday at age 78.

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