BOXER

Earnie Shavers

1944 - 2022

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Earnie Dee Shaver (August 31, 1944 – September 1, 2022), best known as Earnie Shavers, was an American professional boxer who competed between 1969 and 1995. A two-time world heavyweight championship challenger, he is known as one of the hardest punchers in heavyweight boxing history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Earnie Shavers has received more than 2,396,808 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Earnie Shavers is the 39th most popular boxer, the 3,407th most popular biography from United States and the 25th most popular American Boxer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Earnie Shavers ranks 39 out of 496. Before him are Trevor Berbick, Manny Pacquiao, Ezzard Charles, Oscar Bonavena, Max Baer, and Henry Armstrong. After him are Leon Spinks, Jersey Joe Walcott, Wladimir Klitschko, Tommy Morrison, Éder Jofre, and Ernesto Hoost.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Earnie Shavers ranks 265. Before him are Susana Giménez, John Atta Mills, Michael Buffer, Wolfgang Weber, Lena Nyman, and Vernor Vinge. After him are Alexander Vencel, Tsuyoshi Kunieda, Teri Garr, Jill Clayburgh, Lucía Topolansky, and Richard Belzer. Among people deceased in 2022, Earnie Shavers ranks 173. Before him are Mulayam Singh Yadav, Fidel Ramos, Ciriaco De Mita, Alec John Such, Vadim Bakatin, and Yi-Fu Tuan. After him are James McDivitt, Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, Anatoly Filipchenko, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, Kitten Natividad, and Herman Van Springel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Earnie Shavers ranks 3,407 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert D. Putnam (1941), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Horace McCoy (1897), Robert M. Pirsig (1928), Melissa Sue Anderson (1962), and Vernor Vinge (1944). After him are Machine Gun Kelly (1990), Fred Quimby (1886), Hyman Minsky (1919), Bobby Brown (1969), Frederic Forrest (1936), and James McDivitt (1929).

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Among BOXERS In United States

Among boxers born in United States, Earnie Shavers ranks 25. Before him are Sugar Ray Leonard (1956), John L. Sullivan (1858), Archie Moore (1916), Ezzard Charles (1921), Max Baer (1909), and Henry Armstrong (1912). After him are Leon Spinks (1953), Jersey Joe Walcott (1914), Tommy Morrison (1969), Roy Jones Jr. (1969), James J. Corbett (1866), and Rocky Graziano (1919).

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