Heavyweight division. Cooney's grandparents lived in Placentia, Newfoundland, in Canada. Fighting as an amateur, Gerry Cooney won international tournaments...

Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney was a heavyweight boxing match that took place on June 11, 1982, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It was one of the most...

for the WBC championship), Muhammad Ali, Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver, Gerry Cooney, Tim Witherspoon, Carl Williams, and Marvis Frazier. Holmes fell one...

top contender Gerry Cooney, who, like Cobb, was undefeated entering the fight. Very early in the fight Norton was buckled by Cooney's punches. Norton...

George Foreman vs. Gerry Cooney, billed as The Preacher and the Puncher, was a professional boxing match contested on January 15, 1990. Late in 1989, 40-year-old...

Michael Spinks vs. Gerry Cooney, billed as The War at the Shore was a professional boxing match contested on June 15, 1987, for the The Ring and lineal...

of the three hardest punchers he had faced in his career along with Gerry Cooney and Cleveland Williams. The year 1979 marked a decline in Lyle's abilities...

challenger Gerry Cooney, who was coming off a victory over contender Eddie Gregg that got him back him into contention, but Spinks bypassed Cooney in favor...

prominent figures as Oscar De La Hoya, Sonny Liston, Miguel Angel Cotto, Gerry Cooney, Mike Tyson, Sean Strickland, Michael Bisping, Renan Barao, and Marco...

preferences in boxing, and was inspired by Larry Holmes's 1982 fight with Gerry Cooney (who was known as "The Great White Hope") and Mike Tyson's 1995 return...