We are losing boxing royalty. The heavyweights of the 1970s arguably represented the very best the sport has seen. Great champions, fighting each other, once, twice, three times, winning, losing, ...

Ten years ago, I spent the better part of a day with Earnie Shavers, the former heavyweight contender who was 78 when he died Thursday. A friend from back east had spotted “The Acorn,” — what Muhammad ...

Earnie Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, has died. He was 78. Former British boxer and close friend ...

Earnie Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, has died. He was 78. Former British boxer and close friend ...

Earnie Shavers grew up in Braceville, graduated in 1963 from Newton Falls High School, married his high school sweetheart Laverne Payne Shavers and worked in the late 1960s at the General Motors ...

Earnie Shavers, a hard-punching heavyweight boxer who stood toe to toe in title shots against Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, died Thursday. He was 78. Shavers’ death was reported by his friend, former ...

NEWTON FALLS — In the dimly lit Newton Falls Junior High / High School auditorium, the casket of Earnie Shavers, adorned with three massive arrangements of white and blue flowers, sat open on Saturday ...