Gerrie Coetzee Archives

Gerrie Coetzee To Get The Movie Treatment In Forthcoming Film

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 by James Slater

Gerrie Coetzee - This July, a film will begin shooting, the story to tell the tale of former WBA heavyweight champ Gerrie Coetzee's life in and out of the ring. The 65 years old South African, who had a brief reign in 1983/84 – beating Michael Dokes to take the WBA belt, losing it to Greg Page in hugely controversial fashion – is the first African fighter to box for, and win, a world heavyweight title.

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This July, a film will begin shooting, the story to tell the tale of former WBA heavyweight champ Gerrie Coetzee’s life in and out of the ring. The 65 years … Read more

Remembering The Bizarre Iran Barkley vs. Gerrie Coetzee Fight

April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 by James Slater

Gerrie Coetzee - There was, however, a real oddity of a former middleweight champ Vs. former heavyweight champ match-up that took place, somewhat unnoticed, in the 1990s. It was the June, 1997 battle of veterans, when former WBC middleweight champ Iran Barkley met former WBA heavyweight champ Gerrie Coetzee in Hollywood, California. What followed was, as one fan rudely but at the same time accurately put it – a washed up middleweight going up against a washed up heavyweight.

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Throughout boxing history we have seen a great middleweight go up in weight and, in a dare to be even greater, challenge a heavyweight champion. Look at Stanley Ketchel going … Read more