Earnie Shavers vs Frank Bruno

[gilgamesh]

This would be an absolute banger. 2 dynamite punchers. Both have relatively poor stamina, but both will go for the KO early. Both can be KO'd.

Who do you got?

[witherspoon]

I'll take Shavers to come from behind and stop Bruno in 6 to 8.

If he doesn't get the stoppage by midway, he might not have the gas reserves necessary to do a Bonecrusher on Frank later on.

I'm tempted to say that Bruno might take him out early one time out of four or something like that but it's dangerous to go looking for the k.o against a man who punches harder than Jumbo Cummings.

[goose 5]

Good bout. Shavers gets to him, eventually.

[gilgamesh]

I'd go for Shavers as well. I think he has the slight edge in punching power. Bruno has the faster hands I think, and maybe the slightest advantage in Stamina, but I also feel like Bruno with his lack of head movement, and lack of lateral movement is going to be more defensively vulnerable to Shavers' Sunday punch than Shavers would be to his.

I'd favor Shavers by KO in the 6th in a wild shootout of a bout.

Both men hitting the canvas is very possible. Either man winning by KO is also very possible.

[elmersalsa]

Earnie Shavers by knockout.