Heavyweight division. Cooney's grandparents lived in Placentia, Newfoundland, in Canada. Fighting as an amateur, Gerry Cooney won international tournaments...
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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...
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Larry Holmes (section Defeating Cooney)
for the WBC championship), Muhammad Ali, Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver, Gerry Cooney, Tim Witherspoon, Carl Williams, and Marvis Frazier. Holmes fell one...
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Ken Norton (section Gerry Cooney)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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prominent figures as Oscar De La Hoya, Sonny Liston, Miguel Angel Cotto, Gerry Cooney, Mike Tyson, Sean Strickland, Michael Bisping, Renan Barao, and Marco...
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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...
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