26-years have passed, yet it really seems like yesterday. The Larry Holmes-Gerry Cooney WBC Heavyweight Championship Bout in June, 1982, was a collision between the dominant Holmes at the peak of his ...

Earnie Shavers, who earned a reputation as the hardest puncher in the game during a golden era of heavyweight boxing in the 1970s, died Thursday, a day after he turned 78. The cause of death is ...

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 ...