"This is your Life" - Henry Cooper (Documentary)

British Boxing Legend Henry Cooper: "This is your life" (NBC Documentary)______________________________________________________________________________________tags: this is your life henry cooper nbc ralph edwards joseph campanella boxer boxing muhammad ali joe louis frazier jack dempsey larry holmes johnson marvin hagler sugar ray leonard roy jones the greatest fighter in the world boxing documentary junior bernard hopkins wladimir vitali klitschko klitchko knockout highlight compilation best video mike tyson muhammad ali manny pacquiao floyd mayweather nonito donaire narvaez sugar ray robinson ray leonard marvin hagler roberto duran amir khan david haye joe calzaghe gene tunney

[@wthjrtx1]

I am a fan of Henry Cooper. He stood for what you Brits used be like. That is worthy of praise and I mind not at all giving it to him.

[@TheBossssssssssss]

Yeah, look at us now a fucking disgrace I agree ☝️

[@martm216]

As a Brit I say thank you for the compliment. As you suggest though, it's a quality we are beginning to lose.

[@helencampbell4900]

@@martm216 What a lovely family.

[@sanic3985]

Why? What qualities do Brits lack nowadays that they used to have back then? Just asking out of interest.

[@sanic3985]

@Andrew Whyte Haha, the days where people left their doors open, ain't that something? And about the backbone thing, there may be some truth to that... but there just might be a few counterexamples to that. Still, it's the exception, not the rule I guess.

[@green_building]

Muhammad Ali really loves Henry Cooper so deeply.. they are became closed friend outside the ring in their real life, RIP Sir Henry ✨🌈✨

[@Wally-H]

Henry was a gentle man outside of the ring, I doubt anybody disliked him.

[@ecavuto]

Some time back I met an English woman recently relocated to America who had been Henry's secretary at his charitable institution. She described him as a very nice fellow who gave no sign at all of being a boxer; no roughness, no swagger, no temper.

[@aarondigby9859]

Sir 'Enry is a class act, he is one of only two people to have ever knocked the GOAT(Ali) on his butt.

[@gtrman9706]

I met Henry and am so proud.He was a gentle man and a British icon.R.I.P. sir.

[@Deliquescentinsight]

Solid as stone these Cooper people, Brits as they once were! What a beautiful family Henry produced, quiet strength that has no need of bragging. I am always impressed by Henry Cooper.

[@wthjrtx1]

Yes sir. You are a fine Englishmen who I would not mind at all to call friend. God Bless from The Great State of TEXAS. I hope your days are full of joy and happiness!!

[@fodsaks]

He cut too easily, that was Henry's only weakness.

[@stevex8409]

Love watching these, a snapshot of a bygone era. Henry Cooper, what a man.

[@MrBigj1970]

i met him just the once shook his hand got an autograph and the whole time i was in awe of his presence

[@The01t]

Getting feedback like that from the greatest boxer of all time says a whole lot.

[@71poiuytrewq]

What a beautiful moment listening to his wife describing how they met. I'm sure they had a wonderful life together... Two very beautiful people.

[@mashtali1]

Henry Cooper, the Gentle Champion.

[@fformfiller]

Ali and Cooper were friends :)

[@boomboxbadboy1]

What a lovely gentleman

[@karlom1651]

henry was the man a true boxing icon

[@SimonRossPhotography]

I was lucky enough to meet Henry Cooper not long after he retired, a lovely man and a total gentleman in the truest sense. we had a really good chat together as we were actually born within 2 miles of each other and remembered very much the same things about the area we grow up in even though we were 20 years apart. Much missed :-(

[@SuperPali666]

thats nice ☺

[@leonardfleet50]

Our Henry, a real gentle giant!

[@BS15RED]

RIP Sir Henry, a truly great warrior.

[@depaola63]

Cooper was class!

[@sammiwagle9392]

Love u sir Henry and Muhammad Ali Rest in peace May Almighty Allah grant Jannah to u Both love u.

[@masudiabdul5442]

Allahumah Aameen yaarabb

[@Tee1312Jay]

🥊🥊

[@rockhardrockmetalpop]

God Bless Henry Cooper... when i was a kid, Henry as a person gave me a lot of inspiration, one of the most humble blokes on earth and he WAS one of the Greatest Heavyweights in boxing history.

[@leetaylor7179]

Hard man and a total gentleman , sadly missed RIP Henry.

[@maz7726]

Keep this total gem in the limelight. Total respect to Henry Cooper until the going down of the sun....

[@someoneelse.2252]

Cooper comes across as a gentleman.

[@Corinthian44]

A great boxer and sportsman , in the old tradition , a lovely man , and one of the few sporting recipients of a knighthood , that actually deserved it !

[@paulcolville5972]

Correct! Now they throw knighthoods etc at them before they're hardly grown or finished their own sport! Henry's charity work went on longer than his boxing career!

[@burkkuss7819]

Our 'Enery, a true champion and gentleman. Thank you for posting this video, ibhof2.

[@charleselkofairi6656]

What a lovely family Respect

[@joqu6971]

Henry Cooper, what a left hook

[@jimmyd10100]

henry cooper. two words. " class act".

[@aa6884888]

Such classy people back then. How times have changed... rip Champs.

[@Deliquescentinsight]

I was thinking pretty much the same thing, what a contrast with today's Britain eh?

[@roberthockett270]

Ali's tribute at the end - priceless. Rest in peace, Champs.

[@LARRAZ8U]

Allvsclilnnviliam

[@LARRAZ8U]

Al7ioscarbeva

[@Tee1312Jay]

🥊🥊

[@FromaTwistedMind]

Ffs. Take me back to the 70's. Real times. Real men. Honest men, working class values & no BS.

[@gerardgough9757]

A wonderful man to have in the heavyweights ! And what an era- the best!! Thank you Henry for all the memories!!

[@peterjansen3846]

One of the greats and a true gentleman. Nothing but respect for Sir 'Enery.

[@NadeemHayek]

If Ali is the greatest Henry is the most gentleman of all time

[@demetri.clark.7071]

He hits hard too

[@aprilaries1223]

Every friends of ali said "ali is a very gentleman"

[@gimorit]

henry Cooper GRANDE!! BIG.

[@diallomahdi8908]

" Henry Cooper hit me so hard, he jarred my kinfolks in Africa!" Muhammad Ali

[@JamieTransNyc]

He said that about Earnie ShaversI believe, not Cooper

[@HenryMcGuinnessGuitar]

@@JamieTransNyc actually it was to and about Cooper, watch Ali's "this is your life" - near the end. They had a lot of love for each other

[@JamieTransNyc]

@@HenryMcGuinnessGuitar He actually used that line multiple times about various fighters. He liked to butter people up, he just wasnt as good at it as Foreman. Wikipedia: Ali later said Shavers was the hardest puncher he ever faced, stating "Earnie hit me so hard, it shook my kinfolk back in Africa" although Ali had previously used this amusing line in reference to various other hard hitting opponents.[7]

[@HenryMcGuinnessGuitar]

@@JamieTransNyc I watched the Shavers fight on YT recently - he certainly did hit pretty hard!

[@DavidJsmith-dk5tf]

@@JamieTransNyc Certainly he said that about Henry Cooper. Probably said the same about Ernie Shavers. Both enormous punchers !

[@bikesowen]

our henry, rip,,,

[@tinapatton7346]

PROPER people and REAL men no one messed with in or out of the Ring.

[@user-jt3ym5cv3r]

He is Avery humble person. Just watching him the way he presents himself!!!! God bless y Henry.

[@harrihela6235]

Henry Cooper one of toughest.gentleman.

[@markbarker6739]

He was a true legend great man very humble met him when he opened a local fete had time for everyone was very friendly

[@martm216]

A genuinely nice guy if ever there was.

[@graceygrumble]

Q. What kind of person looks at a video about a man like Henry Cooper, purely to show disrespect? A. ... Fill in the blanks yourself... No-one who ever had the pleasure of meeting Henry Cooper, had anything but good to say about the man. The word that crops up over and over again is 'gentleman'. His name was synonymous with strength, loyalty, integrity, decency and honesty. My father believed that that was the highest thing a man could aspire to be. I agree.

[@dazpanzan]

I could not have said that better myself. Henry Cooper, the gentleman of boxing with that magic left. God bless

[@TB.....]

Very well said.

[@pigstrotters7010]

You could say, Cooper was to boxing as Charlton was to football

[@oakleysierney1918]

I think you're in love with him. So he hit hard and he was polite? That's all it takes to get your gushing praise? I praise the people that sacrifice and volunteer to help the homeless and environment and things like that to make the world a better place Nothing against Henry Cooper, just come on stop worshiping him like he's Jesus or something.

[@joeprice9044]

Our enry

[@Richieman11]

Great bloke Henry.. Proper Gent !

[@arunsoni857]

Our Henry.Always a gentleman.

[@johnniethepom2905]

This is the man , young men should aspire to emulate .

[@drwesam1999]

True champion all love and respect ✊ what a humble human

[@ianbentley7276]

can't believe it's nearly 50 years since i first saw this.

[@ReZnMusic]

That left hand though

[@iosifas2018]

I like this guy so much.....so gentleman.....and the left hook to Ali was also gentle....🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗love Ali too

[@kaneone91]

Such a gentleman, RIP Champ

[@allanhughes7859]

I met Mr sorry Sir Henry cooper when I was in charge of store opennings "supermarket" I was told to look after him during the opening I can honestly say he would have been the type of friend I would love to have so so humble just a pure gent would talk to anyone and was down to earth what a man and how underestimated as a boxer you just think when he met Ali !! Ali was in his prime at his best and Hennry put him down and if it were not for the bell and everything else that went on in those few minutes he probably would have won Sadly the cut was the end but ali always gace him much much respect from that day on did he not ???????????

[@frazer601]

This is tv gold!

[@amandaorourke3036]

Just lovely watching this... wonderful upload😀

[@kevingarry11]

i met henry when i was a kid 8-9 ,i had chickenpox and was off school ,henry was promoting the aftershave brut .the was nobody there except henry behind a desk on his own looking bored ,he was a nice man ,he told me stories ,his hands were big , then i asked for a autograph ,i said can i have 3 ,mr cooper said to me why 3?i said 1 for me 1for mum and 1 for my brother,i still have them now ,and thats how i met “our henry” ,a great boxer and a very nice man

[@arifirshad6700]

One of the finest boxer sir Henry Cooper 🥊🥊

[@thpxs0554]

Everyone was so respectful and mrs cooper was a dedicated wife who clearly loved Henry. We won’t see those type of people again because we have influences that have destroyed our culture over the years. Mostly the uncouth American social influences.

[@jimmyc1518]

You've destroyed your own culture. Take responsibility for your failures.

[@aarondigby9859]

Hey, the British had influences that were seemingly detrimental to cultures and societies at the time. Beetles, Animals, Twiggy, punk rock, etc,.... So let's don't be picky.

[@hakanmansur6669]

r.i.p henry cooper

[@TheHandsomeman]

Great guy!

[@Relay300]

Fantastic. Thanks for uploading

[@manuelk9068]

Typically! English people are always great sportsmen and real fighters! R. I. P Sir Henry

[@aarondigby9859]

His mom served meals for the school cafeteria and she'd give them an extra portion. Very humbling.

[@Wally-H]

It's funny listening to Ali saying he hoped if he ever featured on the programme, Henry would be there - Ali was indeed on the show a few years later, and Henry was there although surprisingly they never referenced this request from Ali. You can watch Ali's This Is Your Life on KZbin too.

[@COLEEN322]

one of the best and hardest left hooks in boxing

[@roberthodge4712]

Good Ole Enrys Hammer as we say in New Zealand

[@Eire_Go_Deo]

What a true boxing legend! His wife and family seem wonderful!

[@risingbull84]

Henry was great; a true gentleman outside the ring and a competitive force to be reckoned with inside of the ring. As Ali says at the end, it's just too bad that he cut so easily, otherwise he may have gone on to be one of the greatest sluggers in boxing history!

[@leeryan1969]

I was lucky to have met him once and to have shaken his hand. A proper gentleman. In truth, after flooring Ali he actually won that fight as Ali's corner was fucking around with Ali's bandages in order to give him some time to recover from that tremendous hook

[@tonygoodwin2834]

What a champion man and boxer. He knocked Ali out for longer than 10 secs and was robbed of the win, albeit he was no Ali of course. RIP to Henry, a wonderful man.

[@class1sportzers337]

Uhh... no he didn't Ali got right back up

[@johnniethepom7545]

​@@class1sportzers337Angelo Dundee admitted using salts during the break and ripping Ali's glove . It only took him 25 years to own up to it ! The smelling salts can clearly be seen on the video of the fight . So the Yanks cheated in order to win .

[@jaysilverheals4445]

he came close to totally changing boxing history--the fact is he was working ali over and he was saved by bell--next is he was working him over again but he gets cut easy.

[@johnrogers5658]

I was very lucky as a boy, Henry allowed my to wash his cars when his family lived at 32 Bramton grove, Hendon, NW4

[@bjornsundberg1947]

Henry Cooper seemed such a nice guy. Ingemar Johansson, who fought Cooper in 1956, said about him that he was too gentle and kind for being a boxer, but still a good fighter, he said. IMO, he could have beaten Liston had he got the chance to challenge him before Ali did, because at that point of time Cooper was at his prime. He could hit hard with his left and he wasn't afraid of nobody.

[@DHTCF]

Henry had a good punch but was vulnerable to cuts and chinny. The idea that he could have beaten Liston is risible, and Cooper’s manager said he wouldn’t let him in the same room as Liston, let alone the same ring.

[@bjornsundberg1947]

@@DHTCF Hi, My assumption about Cooper being able to beat Liston is based upon my belief that Cooper was getting better and better. His last fight with Joe Burger was a close fight and Burger had a hard and close fight with Ali. Liston, after his two fights with Ali had lost a lot of confidence as well. So Cooper versus Liston after Liston's two defeats against Ali would've been interesting.

[@DHTCF]

@@bjornsundberg1947 but you wrote that "he could have beaten Liston had he got the chance to challenge him before Ali did", so any loss of confidence after fighting Ali came after you said Cooper might have beaten him. It's true that Cooper was on a good run up to the Bugner fight, but it's also true that - save for his points win over Zora Folley - whenever Cooper went up against real world-class opponents, he came up short. Cooper seems by all accounts to have been a genuinely nice man, and to floor Ali (who had a tremendous chin) is quite something. But he cut easily and was very vulnerable to anyone who could hit.

[@bjornsundberg1947]

@@DHTCF Yes, I really thought that he might have had a chance, though not so big, but most boxers, including our own Ingemar Johansson, thought that Liston was invincible after his two first round KO:s against Patterson. Anyway, as you also believe, Cooper was getting better and better and should have fought Liston at some point of time before Liston quitted boxing, as we would then have got a better understanding of how good or bad Cooper was. One thing we can agree on is that Cooper was a really nice and humble man, and Liston was not such a bad guy that media made us believe. He was often provoked by the authorities and bullied by many.

[@silviobarbierifilho8019]

What a great fighter.

[@elnick1000]

It was so nice to hear from Ali on this at the time. It is a shame that more Americans who did not like Ali had never seen this.

[@N1ghtstar4]

R.I.P Sir Henry Cooper

[@freddiem8801]

Another great British boxer, and a gentleman. I use to see him regularly when he use to go for a haircut just off the Strand in the 1970s when i worked in a hotel. A true gentleman RIP my friend 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@malcolmchadwick4047]

Henry was a class act true gent and Ali was a lovely guy who was comical, always makes me laugh with his stories on chat shows RIP cass.

[@TheMrBennito]

I felt Ali meant those words on Cooper, that was not just politeness.

[@CoectSolutions]

R.I.P Ali

[@ppuh6tfrz646]

A lot of it was politeness as Ali contradicts things he has said elsewhere, for example that Karl Mildenberger was his toughest opponent and that Floyd Patterson was the fastest. Ali suggests that it was Cooper's cut eyes that prevented him from having more success when this is really a myth. It just happens that Cooper's two most high profile fights ended this way and only two other bouts in his career were stopped due to cuts. Ali chooses not to mention that Cooper was knocked out by Ingemar Johansson, Zora Folley and Floyd Patterson and cuts had nothing to do with any of those losses.

[@ppuh6tfrz646]

@@deanthonyjones790 The fact he was a one arm fighter supports my argument that he was not as effective as Ali claims. His early fights aren't really relevant because this was when he was still developing and improving which is why I made no mention of them. I don't see the relevance of him fighting at Light Heavyweight in the Olympics - so did Ali. And, in any case, the Middleweight gold medal at the Olympic games where Cooper competed was won by Floyd Patterson who would knock Cooper out as a professional. If you want to talk to me about facts then you really should get yours straight first. Cooper's first defeat as a professional was not against an undefeated opponent but instead was against a guy with 14-7-6 record.

[@ppuh6tfrz646]

@@deanthonyjones790 You need to read my messages properly and everything I said was factually correct. So let me correct you on each of the points you made. 1) I never said Cooper fought at Middleweight in the Olympics. I said Patterson fought at Middleweight in 1952 at the Olympics where Cooper competed at Light Heavyweight. 2) You said, and I quote, 'Henry Cooper lost his first two bouts to fighters who were UNDEFEATED and naturally "BIGGER" men' This is wrong because, as I said before, Cooper's first defeat was against a guy with a 14-7-6 record. 3) The fact that you have boxed does not somehow magically improve your knowledge of other fighters' careers although the punches you took could affect your ability to read properly and think rationally. This would explain a lot, including your apparent belief that when putting four points in order you use the words 'First, second, third and third...' 4) There's so many things wrong with what you wrote: - 'Muhammad Ali "LOST" every round until the round in which he cut Henry's eye' That's your (probably biased) opinion. Check out eyeonthering.com and you'll see that the majority of people disagree with you. - 'He got KNOCKED OUT'... No, he didn't. He got 'up at about 3' as mentioned in the commentary of the bout which you yourself said is on KZbin. You claim to have been a boxer yet you don't know that a floored fighter has 10 seconds to get up to avoid being knocked out. - 'Angelo Dubdee cut his glove to buy time' The guy's name is Angelo Dundee, try to get it right. He was only one of the most famous trainers and cornermen in the history of the sport. There's no evidence he cut the glove, it might have split and, in any case, it extended the break before the 5th round by only 6 seconds.

[@ppuh6tfrz646]

@@deanthonyjones790 No, sorry, mate but the referee didn't count to 10, the fight wasn't stopped. Ali was not knocked out. Did you really need to have that explained to you?? Are you actually this stupid?

[@markshere100]

Sir Henry Cooper OBE KSG (3 May 1934 - 1 May 2011)

[@mariogiresi6792]

Great man Mr. Cooper, with an even greater left hook.

[@victoryasher66]

Now THAT was cool.

[@Ricky2901]

God bless him loved his persona

[@jonesthestone]

we had a great culture in this country once, what went wrong?

[@theagbaman]

This is beautiful

[@CoectSolutions]

R.I.P Muhammad ali klay

[@Tungstencube66]

I got a signed autobiography by Henry from 1974.

[@MadMax-dr6mf]

Lovely. Some facts I didn't know about Cooper. Seemed to end very sudden, the show obviously wasn't very long in those days.

[@throwball2248]

He gave Ali one of his toughest fights how many people can say they dropped Ali. What a left hook he had if he didn’t get cut he would of beat Ali that night. Class act good family man

[@lewiewanie]

Henry had the biggest compliment in the history of boxing, from none other than Muhammad, fully deserved!

[@tallpaul1563]

Dude had a savage left hook. Dropped Cassius Clay like a sack of potatoes before losing on a cut.

[@thiest1205]

Very cold set for such a warm man

[@tommack352]

I would have loved to have seen Henry Cooper fight Jerry Quarry. I think Cooper would have won, but it would have been a good fight.

[@mcduffxyz]

Henry Cooper! Old Schooll! Proper!

[@stevenadams9291]

this is the real english lanquage

[@SuperGGLOL]

Henry coooer has not said a word and I’m 7 mins in

[@marcmartins2002]

I saw Henery in Cambridge in the 80's at a celebrity golfing match he was continuously laughing. He had one hell of a stature.

[@MrDannyDetail]

It's worth pointing out that the description needs correcting as it is not the US version of TIYL, so not NBC or Ralph Edwards.. This programme is from the British version of This Is Your Life, and was made by Thames Television for ITV, and presented by Eamonn Andrews. Incidentally it was broadcast on Wednesday 14th January 1970 at 7pm GMT on the ITV network, and appears from this video to have been live.

[@jedus007]

Ali and Cooper were great friends to the last, and Henry Copper was a great champion indeed , like Ali said he cut easy and that was his weakness. Those were the times of boxings Glory.

[@prinzdodo]

Sir Henry Cooper OBE KSG.... The man who fought Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali. :)

[@Makvilly7]

I didn’t know Muhammad Ali has that great regards for Henry Cooper