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02/03/2023

'All I know is he put me down. I won almost every round before that. I had that world title. I went back to the corner and said I was fine. I got up for the last with only one thing in my mind. That's all I was thinking: 'Keep your hands up. Survive one more round and you're champion.' But the referee jumped in. I went back to my corner and felt my spirit leave me – through anguish. And then I collapsed.

Even when I woke up in a different body, I couldn't open my eyes. That was frightening. I can still hear my mother and the doctor today. The doctor said, 'Mrs Watson, I don't think your son will live.' It was like hearing them on TV. But I just lay there – like I was dead.

In my self-consciousness, I said, 'God Almighty, if you save my life, I'll give my life to you.' Nothing happened for days. But I kept asking: 'God, show me a sign. Bring some feeling into my body.' I was persistent. One day I felt a tingling and my hand just moved.

You can't describe it, but my breakthrough was when Muhammad Ali came. I knew it was him, big time, and he was so humorous. He said, 'You're a fine-looking young man.' Ali was real close and said: 'But you ain't as good looking as meeeeee …' I laughed and it was the first happy sound I'd made in months. It was like breaking a rock. From there I escalated. I was a big problem for the nurses – chatting them up.'

- Michael Watson

31/08/2022

On this day...

'Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him...Earnie could punch you in the neck with his right hand and break your ankle.' - Randall 'Tex' Cobb

'Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.' - Larry Holmes

'Hey man, that's the hardest I've ever been hit in my life. And George Foreman could punch, but none of them could hit like Earnie Shavers did. When he hit you, the lights went out. I can laugh about it now, but at the time, it wasn't funny.' - Ron Lyle

'Earnie hit me so hard, he shook my kinfolk back in Africa.' - Muhammad Ali

'Shavers hit so hard he turned horse p*ss into gasoline! He hit me so hard he brought back tomorrow. When he hit me… I was seeing pink rats and cats and animals smoking ci******es. I was in the land of make-believe.' - James Tillis

'It was like someone was hitting me with a sledgehammer.' - Leroy Caldwell

'Earnie wasn't a really good boxer, but God, his power was amazing.' - Angelo Dundee

'His punching power isn't thunderous, it's murderous.' - Bert Sugar

On this day in 1944, the two time Heavyweight World Championship challenger and the man possessing one of the most feared set of fists in history was born. That man was none other than Earnie Shavers.

Despite not managing to capture the crown, Shavers provided boxing fans with hours upon hours of legendary fight footage, with him having shared the ring with numerous Heavyweight legends including Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Jimmy Ellis, Ron Lyle and Jerry Quarry.

Please join us in congratulating Earnie on celebrating his 78th birthday today.

Happy Birthday Earnie, Many Happy Returns.

09/08/2022

ANNOUNCED 🚨

The first ever all-female fight card is complete ‼️

🗓 September 10th

📍 O2 Arena, London

📝 Boxxer / Salita Promotions / Hennessy Sports

📺 Sky Sports

08/08/2022

'Some trainers like to scream and yell, maybe motivate their fighters that way, but I feel nobody responds well to yelling. No one likes to be screamed at. So I think I get more out of them by being their friend and being quiet with them. When they come to the corner I have them take a couple of deep breaths so they can calm down, and then they are going to absorb what I am going to say to them, and I am not going to say too much. Some guys want to write a book in the corner, but if a fighter can absorb one or two things, that's what I'm looking for.'

- Freddie Roach

Lights, camera, action…
22/07/2022

Lights, camera, action…

28/05/2022

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04/03/2022

Jack Broughton

The godfather of boxing and below his first ever written rules in boxing 👊👊

John "Jack" Broughton (c. 1703 or 5 July 1704 – 8 January 1789) was an English bare-knuckle boxer.

He was the first person to codify a set of rules to be used in such contests; prior to this the "rules" that existed were very loosely defined and tended to vary from contest to contest. His seven rules of how boxing would be conducted at his amphitheatre (the largest and most influential at that time) evolved later into the London Prize Ring rules which are widely regarded as the foundation stone of the sport that would become boxing, prior to the development of the Marquess of Queensberry rules in the 1860s.

01/03/2022

'The ring must be the loneliest place in the world sometimes, a frightening place because your opponent is trained to beat you up physically, and if he can knock you out, he will.'

- Joe Calzaghe

01/03/2022

'One of the things that bothers me most, is that very few people understand what it means to be a fighter. I hate it when I hear someone say, 'That fighter doesn't have any guts.' I hate that, it really ticks me off. I don't care if you're a World Champion six times over or a four round fighter who just got knocked out in thirty seconds of your first professional fight. To step inside that ring, you have to have guts.'

- Oscar De La Hoya

12/01/2022

'I learned from all my opponents. When I was in the ring, my opponent was a teacher.'

- Jack Johnson

New year, new canvas ✅
07/01/2022

New year, new canvas ✅

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