Three decades ago, U.S fight fans (and fans located elsewhere around the planet), while not exactly at a fever pitch of excitement and anticipation, were intrigued by the upcoming heavyweight collision between “Geezers at Caesars,” George Foreman and Gerry Cooney.
Deontay Wilder is celebrated today as the biggest puncher in the heavyweight division. Despite his flaws, Wilder is a star, he has an amazing highlight reel and he is unbeaten.
What a shame these two giants of the division, lethal punchers both, never collided. What would have happened if Joe Frazier and Gerry Cooney met in ring centre and traded bombs?
A big fight that attracted millions almost began before the first bell. Rewind to the early 1980s if you will:
There was a time when Howard Cosell was very much the voice of boxing; the man on the microphone whenever the big, big fights took place.
Heavyweight puncher Gerry Cooney was in Ireland over the weekend, doing a meet and greet with the fans and promoting his new autobiography ‘Gentleman Gerry: A Contender in the Ring, a Champion in Recovery.’
Heavyweight power-puncher Gerry Cooney will release his autobiography this summer, so reports RingTV.com, and it promises to be a good, interesting read.
Is it really 29 years since ageing heavyweights George Foreman and Gerry Cooney collided in their much ridiculed fight? It was indeed this day back in January of 1990 when Foreman, age 41, met Cooney, age 33, in a battle that was officially called “The Preacher And The Puncher,” but was unofficially and sarcastically dubbed “Two Geezers At Caesars.”
Gerry Cooney once stood where Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury stand, to a degree, anyway. Though both Wilder and Fury have achieved their lifelong goal of becoming world heavyweight champion – despite whatever happens in L.A
Exactly 24-years ago today, an unlikely heavyweight comeback was well underway. In fact, on this day, one year shy of a quarter of a century ago, there were two unlikely heavyweight comebacks being observed – and what’s more the two come-backing heavies were about to run right into each other.