Earnie Shavers to attend Box Fan Expo

[philly]

Las Vegas (February 28, 2018) - Boxing Legend Earnie Shavers has confirmed that he will appear and hold a Meet & Greet with his fans at the Las Vegas Convention Center for the 5th Annual Box Fan Expo on Saturday May 4, 2019 from 10am to 5pm, during Cinco De Mayo weekend. The Boxing Expo will also coincide with the highly anticipated fight between Canelo Alvarez vs Danny Jacobs, that will take place later that evening at the T-Mobile Arena.

Shavers will make his 2nd appearance at this years' Expo, at the Legends Boxing Foundation "LBF" booth and will be signing gloves, photos and personal items.Fans will also have an opportunity to take pictures with this legend also known as "The Acorn", who is considered by many boxing experts, as the hardest heavyweight puncher in boxing history.

Shavers joins LBF, Al Bernstein, Michael Spinks, WBC, Erik Morales, James Toney and Jessie Vargas as an early commitment to this year's Box Fan Expo.

About Earnie Shavers
Shavers, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1969 to 1983, with two further comebacks in 1987 and 1995. A two-time world heavyweight championship challenger, Shavers is considered by many boxing experts to be the hardest heavyweight punching boxer of all time. He scored 68 overall knockout wins, and finished 23 opponents inside the first round. His knockout-to-win ratio stands at 91.8%. Shavers is best known for his world title fights with Larry Holmes and Muhammad Ali. He scored a heavy knockdown against Holmes, and hurt Ali badly in the second round and during the later rounds of their fight. Shavers' most significant wins were his first-round knockouts of former world heavyweight champions Jimmy Ellis and Ken Norton. He also defeated world heavyweight title challengers Jimmy Young and Joe Bugner. In 2001, he released an autobiography about his life and boxing career called Welcome to the Big Time. Today, he attends boxing events as a special guest, autograph signer, and as a motivational speaker.

About LBF
The Legends Boxing Foundation is a boxing sanctioning body and a contemporary association whose aim is to revolutionize boxing worldwide. LBF aims to offer a better perspective into the boxing world for smaller and bigger boxing promoters. The LBF was Founded in 2015 by former boxing-promoter Eva Rolle together with her son Robert Rolle. Eva Rolle has organized more than 100 professional boxing events all over the world and several title fights with many different associations. Her son Robert Rolle was a successful professional boxer (IBF European Champion / NBA World Champion) and experienced the scene from an active view.

For more info on the LBF go to: http://www.legendsbf.com

About Box Fan Expo
Box Fan Expo has been a huge success with fans and boxing industry people. Many boxing stars have attended the last four Expos such as Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns, Juan Manuel Marquez, Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, Roy Jones Jr., Marcos Maidana, Andre Ward, Errol Spence Jr., Sergio Martinez, Keith Thurman, Danny Garcia, Tim Bradley, Deontay Wilder, Amir Khan, Shawn Porter, Fernando Vargas, Zab Judah, James Toney, Vinny Pazienza, Mikey Garcia , Mia St.John, Leo Santa Cruz, Abner Mares Maricela Cornejo, Badou Jack, Terry Norris , Riddick Bowe , Earnie Shavers, Leon Spinks, Danny Jacobs, Jorge Linares, Brandon Rios and many more...

Exhibitors such as boxing gear, apparel, new equipment's, energy drinks, alcohol, supplement products, broadcasting media, sanctioning bodies and other companies who wish to participate will once again have a chance to showcase their brand to fans, media and the boxing industry.

Tickets to the Box Fan Expo are available online at:
https://boxfanexpo.eventbrite.com

Box Fan Expo is the ultimate boxing fan experience event, which allows fans to Meet and Greet Boxing Superstars of today, current and former world champions, Legends of the sport and other boxing Celebrities at their booth. On Site, fans will experience different activities from Autograph Sessions, Photo Sessions, FaceOff with your favorite boxers, as well as a chance to purchase merchandise and memorabilia from their booth, plus so much more... you won't want to miss this must-attend Expo!

Box Fan Expo will also feature top boxing organizations, promoters, ring card girls, famous trainers and commentators as well as boxing gear companies "ALL UNDER ONE ROOF".

Throughout the next several months leading up to the Event, there will be weekly updates on the many stars that will commit their appearance at the Boxing Expo. And for anyone in the Boxing industry or other Exhibitors (non-industry), who would like to be involved and reserve a Booth, contact Box Fan Expo:

Telephone number: (514) 572-7222 or Las Vegas Number (702) 997-1927

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[oogiebe]

Shavers is really one of the good guys of boxing. Hardest puncher ever.

[tiny_acres]

Shavers is really one of the good guys of boxing. Hardest puncher ever.

He's one of my all time favorite fighters.
You could pretty well bet on him knocking his opponent out or getting knocked out himself

[candyslim]

Yeah who would have thought after he got stopped in five IIRC by Ron Stander that he'd go on to have the career that he did and achieve legend status?

You'd have needed a crystal ball for that one.

[bennie]

Shavers was labelled with a stamina problem for much of his early career but after he went the full 15 rounds with Ali, the doubters disappeared and he earned himself a second shot with a stunning first-round dismissal of Ken Norton. Looking at his record, he fought just about all the heavyweight 'names' in the 1970s except Joe Frazier and George Foreman. Shavers-Foreman in particular is one that got away.

[candyslim]

This is true. I always think of Shavers/Foreman as Earnie's greatest 'fight that never happened' but Shavers/ Frazier could have been a real corker as well.

In the early seventies when Shavers had a rep for poor stamina as you say, both fights would have been regarded as a mismatch, and of no interest, but a few years on the prospect of either would have been extremely exciting.

[SenorPipino]

Shavers never accomplished anything close to what Foreman and Frazier did.

He was as powerful as anyone, but Shavers wasn't at the same all around level as those 2.

How many of you would wager on Shavers to defeat either? I'm guessing very very few.

[candyslim]

They would both have been favoured to beat Shavers but Earnie's power always gave him a chance. From memory both Lyle (who did) and Norton (who didn't) were favoured to beat him too. Most would say Norton was regarded as having the better career and by that token the superior fighter, but that's not really the point is it?

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I met him once in Liverpool a few years ago.

He said he was living in England and he was really nice.

I don't know if he's still here or living back in the U S A now.