An elegy for the great heavyweight contender of the 1970s, whose transcendent power and strong character outlasted his bad boxing luck — Earnie Shavers: 1944–2022 Boxers, for the most part, are some of the most decent human beings I have ever seen. Boxing, for the most part, is horrible. Rarely is it more horrible than in how rural talent is handled by their “management”? The sport has been haunted by unprincipled hustlers…