Larry Holmes vs Gerry Cooney

Larry Holmes battles Gerry Cooney

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[pokeyinla]

This announcer, not Ray, wasn't watching the same fight as I with his Cooney bias. Anyway, in order to clarify any doubt on Larry Holmes' greatness, I submit the following:

Larry Holmes' left jab, who is said to be considered one of the greatest weapons in the history of sports, was the WBC Heavyweight Champion from 1978 to 1983, The Ring Heavyweight Champion from 1980 to 1985, and the IBF Heavyweight Champion from 1983 to 1985. His twenty successful title defenses are second to only to Joe Lo

[76WestSports]

@aitraining Exactly. It's not what Holmes did in the ring, but his corny and dull personality. His bad grammar.  If Holmes was that bad then why didn't he failo a drug test? The media really ruined his image especially after the Cooney and Ali fights. Then Larry let the media get to him with the MArciano thing.

[justentime77]

Larry Holmes is THE most underrated fighter in history! He fought at a time when their weren't a lot of exciting prospects and the spotlight was on the Welter and Middleweight divisions. Holmes would have schooled most of the so called "Greats".

[tmanx1]

@pokeyinla That may be a fair comment, but in defense of Cooney he was used. The racial angle was orchestrated by Don King as much as anybody, and Cooney was no fan of it. And let's not forget- Cooney had only fought a total of 6 rounds in nearly 3 years previous.He had less than 12 rounds of experience against name fighters. He says himself he wanted more quality fights. His management was too concerned with a Great White Hope payday.

[ExpressivePugilist]

Does anyone have the full fight?

[suriamarsuli]

@aitraining

No close fight?

Do you even watch his fight with Witherspoon and Williams?

[Da2faan]

i dont why some fools keep bigging up modern heavywieghts hieghts, like the klicthko sisters r giants or something, gerry cooney is 6 ft 6 the same as vladmir klicthko,yet within the ring against a 6ft 4 holmes theres barely a diffrence, with all the wieght and age factor both george foreman and larry holmes have shrunk n inch or two and ali probally 3 inches becuase of parkisnsons, even outta there primes the 70s boxers would piss all over the big bags of shit we have these days

[B04Jordan]

2nd best heavyweight ever!!!

[19Lewandowski90]

@MrPsychopath83 That's nice, That's racism, man! I love to racism bro!

[waiting4smtin]

@pokeyinla Ya racist times, all odds were against Holmes then because of racial reasons, even the president, Regan put a phone in Cooney's room so he can give him a class if he wins. But Holmes won deservedly.

[goldenbrick2]

Cooney had the greatest left hand in boxing history... he fought too conservatively, he should have gone after Holmes

[goldenbrick2]

Cooney had the greatest left hand in boxing history... I fought too conservatively, he should have gone after Holmes