What is Earnie Shavers's record?

76–14–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 89 bouts individually.

Does a no contest change a record here?

No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.

What happens when sources disagree about a fight?

This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Earnie Shavers — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

76–14–1

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.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1969–1995

SOURCE·Earnie Shavers — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

How this record is compiled

Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-07. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
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 60 of 89 recorded bouts, most recent first.

14 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Earnie Shavers — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

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
Most active decade	1970s — 59 of 89 dated bouts
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

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Earnie Shavers's record?: 76–14–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 89 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?: No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?: This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Cross-references

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Shavers sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing

59 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

115 FIGHTERS Earnie Shavers vs Larry Holmes

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1978 Longest unbeaten runs

Earnie Shavers went 30 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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