I occasionally watch the odd Henry Cooper fight and I have a sneaking suspicion that he could have made 175lbs on a regular basis. In a documentary I saw the other day it said that Cooper was actually 2 stone lighter than Ali - which to me puts him easily in realm of LHW.

The question in my mind is could the likes of Bob Foster take Coopers left hook? To me Henry Cooper would have been an incredibly dangerous and feared LHW fighter - whose left hand would splatter a lot of the guys fighting at the time and if time machines existed - even today.

I am the first to admit that my boxing knowledge is nothing compared to many here, but could Henry Cooper have turned an average heavyweight career into an excellent LHW career if he had dropped down in his prime?