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Shavers has said in the past that Frazier and Foreman both refused to fight him, was there ever talk about Shavers fighting either of these?

foreman didnt duck shavers??? shavers got knocked out by quarry..didnt deserve a shot at george.........then shavers got knocked ot by lyle and lyle gota title shot...........GEORGE FOREMAN DIDNT DUCK SHAVERS..........GET REAL

Sometimes two guys just miss each other; just because two guys who were around at the same time didn't fight doesn't mean that one of them "ducked" the other.
I think what people often is overlook is that for a fight to be made both fighters have to be available at the same time. That happens less often than one might think, especially with good fighters in a time where there is great depth in the division the fighters are in.
Each fighter has his own plans and isn't thinking of the plans of others. For example, Fighter A may want to take on Fighter B, but Fighter B has just agreed to take on Fighter C in his next fight.
Then after Fighter B beats Fighter C, he can't take on Fighter A because Fighter A has agreed to take on some one else.

It is sort of like movies. People watch a movie and say "they should have had Robert DeNiro in the lead role". Well, no kidding. You have to take someone who is available.

In the case of Shavers, Frazier/Foreman, there was so many other good fighters around at the time that it's not surprising that they never met.
If there was no other really good/great fighters around at the time, Shavers-Frazier or Shavers-Foreman would have happened.