Earnie Shavers

Earnie Shavers has a reach of 79″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +9.73%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 94th percentile of the 317 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+9.73%

79″ reach on a 72″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	79″ (200.7 cm)	61st pct
Height	72″ (182.9 cm)	17th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Peak era	1970s
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

76–14

91 bouts on record

Finish rate

92%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 94th percentile

By knockout 92%
By decision 8%

The career, bout by bout

89 recorded bouts from 1969 to 1995. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1969–1995

Career span

27y

1969–1995

Longest unbeaten run

30

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1971

17 bouts

Recorded bouts

89

89 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1995	L	Brian Yates	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Brian Morgan	—	8
1987	W	Larry Sims	KO/TKO	2
1983	L	George Chaplin	—	9
1983	W	Phil Clinard	KO/TKO	5
1983	W	Rahim Muhammad	Decision	10
1982	W	Tony Perea	KO/TKO	6
1982	W	Al Jones	KO/TKO	3
1982	W	Phil Clinard	KO/TKO	2
1982	W	Chuck Gardner	KO/TKO	2
1982	L	Walter Santemore	Decision	10
1982	W	Billy Joe Thomas	KO/TKO	5
1982	L	James Tillis	Decision	10
1982	W	Danny Sutton	KO/TKO	7
1982	W	Joe Bugner	KO/TKO	2
1982	W	Ali Haakim	Decision	10
1981	W	Jeff Sims	KO/TKO	5
1981	W	Mike Rodgers	KO/TKO	2
1981	W	Terry Mims	KO/TKO	2
1980	W	Ted Wadkins	KO/TKO	2
1980	L	Randall Cobb	KO/TKO	8
1980	W	Leroy Boone	Decision	10
1980	L	Bernardo Mercado	KO/TKO	7
1979	L	Larry Holmes	KO/TKO	11
1979	W	Eddie Parotte	KO/TKO	3
1979	W	Ken Norton	KO/TKO	1
1978	W	Harold Carter	KO/TKO	3
1978	W	John Girowski	KO/TKO	4
1978	W	Harry Terrell	—	1
1978	L	Larry Holmes	Decision	12
1977	L	Muhammad Ali	Decision	15
1977	W	Howard Smith	KO/TKO	2
1976	W	Roy Williams	KO/TKO	10
1976	W	Henry Clark	KO/TKO	2
1975	W	Tommy Howard	KO/TKO	3
1975	L	Ron Lyle	KO/TKO	6
1975	W	Oliver Wright	KO/TKO	3
1975	W	Rochell Norris	KO/TKO	10
1975	W	Leon Shaw	KO/TKO	1
1974	D	Jimmy Young	Draw	10
1974	L	Bob Stallings	Decision	10
1974	W	Roy Wallace	KO/TKO	1
1973	L	Jerry Quarry	KO/TKO	1
1973	W	Jimmy Ellis	KO/TKO	1
1973	W	Harold Carter	KO/TKO	1
1973	W	Jimmy Young	KO/TKO	3
1972	W	Leroy Caldwell	KO/TKO	2
1972	W	A J Staples	KO/TKO	1
1972	W	Vicente Rondón	Decision	10
1972	W	Lou Bailey	KO/TKO	2
1972	W	Bob Felstein	KO/TKO	5
1972	W	Charley Polite	KO/TKO	3
1972	W	Elgie Walters	KO/TKO	2
1972	W	Ted Gullick	KO/TKO	6
1971	W	Del Morris	KO/TKO	3
1971	W	Cleo Daniels	KO/TKO	2
1971	W	Elmo Henderson	KO/TKO	4
1971	W	Charlie Boston	KO/TKO	2
1971	W	Pat Duncan	KO/TKO	5
1971	W	Richard Pittman	KO/TKO	1

Showing the 60 most recent of 89 recorded bouts.

14 of these opponents have their own page here.

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

How this is worked out

Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Full methodology →

Source: Earnie Shavers on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.