Gerry Cooney On the Legendary Fight Against Larry Holmes

[@badgerbhoy9534]

What an utter class act, he looks great!!! 👍

[@richardwood1575]

Being told that you’re no good , particularly as a youngster, is a poison and to overcome that negativity deserves the utmost respect.

[@valentinomarini4048]

Gerry Cooney was a bum in the ring he should of never been a boxer!!!! Cooney is a Looney!!!! Holmes destroyed him back in 1981

[@antonboludo8886]

Bingo!

[@Dennis-kn2cf]

He put up a fight through the 13th round. I'd like to see you last 30 seconds with an amateur boxer.

[@patrickmcgee6917]

Love Gerry The Man!!!! Genuinely nice! Happy, and very at peace with himself. He carries himself so well these days. Class act!!!!😎☘️☘️👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@davidabney7700]

Superb gentleman, Gentleman Gerry Cooney, a former devastating boxer, and a straight good guy that I was privileged to watch. His former nemesis, Larry Holmes, speaks well of Gerry and to this day call each other up, like good friends do.

[@csnide6702]

"gentleman" Gerry.... that hits below the belt........

[@johnhaggerty1907]

Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney we're two class guys.I wish everybody got along like them .

[@charliec5653]

It sure wasn't like that leading up to their fight back in 1982.

[@michaelgarza8271]

When George Foreman names you as one of the hardest punchers he's ever faced... That's something.

[@robrepublic1]

God bless Gerry Cooney!

[@paultennis9569]

Happy your doing well Gerry best wishes to you and family

[@guygranger7894]

Great to see Gerry still with his senses. So many others have taken such beatings and now are in nursing homes etc,

[@markleamer1775]

Larry Holmes also a class act for sure. Like Magic & Larry, two former adversaries friends and show mutual respect .

[@warrioroflight3489]

If foreman say that this guy hit hard then this guy was not a joke but powerful puncher as hell

[@warrioroflight3489]

@Marcy Macy yes true

[@shigsho]

Cooney has always been classy.

[@janski1982]

It’s definetely rare that an old professional boxer can speak so good and shows no signs of brain damage like Gerry in his age.

[@matthewnikitas2904]

Well after he lost to Larry he fought very sparingly so he definitely doesn’t have the wear and tear a lot of guys do

[@david-pb4bi]

Being so tall probably didn’t get hit in the head very often when sparring.

[@hawkrider88]

Great interview! Informative, entertaining and nice rapport with everyone. What a genuinely nice guy Gerry is. And Bill, don't quit your day job!! ;) Thanks guys!!

[@jonathandewberry289]

Sometimes I think Cooney was big yes but you saw him in the ring against other giant-sized men. You see this and its a reminder that WOW he is a big big dude. You also realize that while he's an old man he would STILL utterly wreck almost all of us if he really felt peppy and wanted to start really punching again lol. Anyway, great to see this. Cooney one of the great challengers of all time against the greatest HW champion of all-time, Larry Holmes. both living legends.

[@daveherbst5080]

Great man, great boxer!!!! Thank you so much for sharing!! I'm ordering your book right now!! As a Coach, I can't wait to learn and then share with my athletes.

[@danatompkins4385]

Love Gerry!!!! All the best brother!

[@mariastenljung9159]

Such a nice man, he had the best lefthook to the liver area, if it connected right the fight was over

[@JAMESGANG-f5u]

Nasty left hook. It sometimes had that same sound as a strong, gas powered weed eater blasting through some bigger weeds. Prior to the Holmes fight Gerry had a huge % of KO’s to the body. Breaking guys ribs.

[@stevecochran2677]

Gerry is a good man

[@timothyproksch2915]

I love this guy

[@rfjohns4452]

Gerry's mannerisms seem odd to me until I looked up his background and sure enough his family originated from Canada's Newfoundland a people that are so different than others from Canada. They talk different,they drink, smoke,dance like wild people...

[@hardfought1842]

The report is too funny 😂 really tryna sneak that right hand in 😂

[@jpmerrick8886]

Happy he is well

[@jimcagney6696]

Back when Gerry was in high school he stole two packs of fire crackers from me in front of Joey Depinto's house on Luther Place in Huntington Station.

[@britishamerican4321]

"I just finished my first book; now I'm gonna read another one." LOL I'm going to use that.

[@christopherbellore3511]

Fighting the good fight of faith. ✝🛐🕊⚓🔨📖🗡✝🥊🙏

[@shadicalplayz8932]

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[@jhavajoe3792]

Whew! I'm so happy he has no signs of brain damage.

[@jackpeters9048]

Jerry fought some of the best to ever enter the ring.....Bravo Jerry....

[@shadicalplayz8932]

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[@thejrodshow7679]

Gerry would make a perfect monster in an upcoming movie lol

[@JAMESGANG-f5u]

Oh yea Jason or Mike Myers swinging blades with the LEFT hook. Terrifying 😇

[@davebayliss3142]

NOBODY EVER SAID “ you can’t make it your no good you won’t be anything “ ,,,,, everyone who’ve done good things tells the same narrative

[@csnide6702]

Holmes would have finished him sooner but Cooney landed VERY HARD low blows on 3 separate occasions to keep him off and slow him down.

[@JAMESGANG-f5u]

Great stuff except at the end when Gerry couldn’t figure out that the guys left was on HIS (Gerrys) right. So the guy had to ad lib and go with it on the fly .... probably thinking to himself “OK I guess Gerry is going to teach me a RIGHT hook” 😒🤨 But seriously I appreciate and can definitely relate to what Gerry had to say about substance abuse.

[@coreywilkins7899]

I remember the Holmes vs. Cooney fight as a kid. I didn't realize Cooney was a great fighter. I thought he was a bum. That's what I was told as a kid. I remember the figh was a black vs. White thing. As a kid I didn't think that was right but Holmes was my favorite fighter because the first ever boxing match that I ever watched (prize fight) was Holmes vs. Ali. The first Ali fight I seen. Ali was a legend and Holmes beat him.

[@valentinomarini4048]

He was a bum compared to all the other fighters he was a BUM!!!!!! Holmes destroyed him he was great at being a bum who managed to get a title shot and make some big money and yes it was a white vs black thing and he lets us all down but I knew he would get beat!!!!! The only really white hope champion died in 1969 in a plane Rocky Marciano was the only undefeated heavyweight in boxing history 49-0 and he represented the white champion the rest all got beat and never even made it to be a champ

[@biueshound]

There was alot of Gerry was just a tomato can opponent, he proved he was not. Very well spoken and grateful for his life in boxing. I enjoyed Holmes he ruled the division for a long time. When Larry fought Ali, Sli was well past his prime, and it was sad to witness that fight for me. It would have been great to see Ali v Holmes at both of their primes.

[@frederickjefferson2289]

All 3 of Gerry' s losses were to Hall of Famers. No shame in that. You couldn't be just anybody and beat Gerry Cooney.

[@FRMMAUnit]

Just decided to comment because the other comment I see says it was posted 1 hour ago lol, so I thought I'd let any future viewers know, me and the other commenter (his name is Sofa King right now but he could change it in the future lol) posted in less than 2 hours between our comments. Because his comment comment says 1 hour ago.

[@rickrick5041]

Gerry was right.Step to the left meaning Gerry’s left

[@davebayliss3142]

Just incase you have been on another planet and haven’t heard i5 before

[@DomRivers67]

Great fighter, nice guy and a good friend of Holmes. Funny really how that fight got racially charged, the two fighters themselves never gave a damn about that. Got cheeks on seats I suppose

[@citygreek1553]

Dennis and Mike weren't exactly supportive managers as you were they're money tree...... you should have fought Mike Weaver for the title [which you would have won] but they were greedy.................

[@dhart8451]

Average boxer who was able to fight Holmes because he was white.

[@shadicalplayz8932]

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