Corrie sanders vs gerry cooney...

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

Sanders was actually good enough to win The Big Fight at least once, and beat a live quality opponent. Plus, his southpaw stance and quick straight left could be murderous against Cooney's lack of real defense. Im going with Sanders. He was more skilled, faster, and better on defense. Cooney might have hit a bit harder (doubt it though!) but neither is likely to survive the others bombs, In such a case I'll go with the guy who likely to land his best first. That is Sanders.

Sanders won a big fight against Wlad (Cooney never beat a fighter of that caliber who was in their prime or close to it!) a more meaningful win than Cooney's best wins. On the other hand, Cooney never lost to any mediocre fighters, whereas Sanders did but by that logic i.e wlad (who has lost to a lesser fighter) would lose also! So that is not a good argument...

However, nobody really walks through a motivated/in shape Sanders (yes he had an upset loss to tubbs but u have to look at a fighters career as a whole!) Vitali never walked through Sanders, and Sanders hurt Vitali who has a WAY better chin than Cooney. Sanders, vitali, rahman etc had some of the hardest nights of there lives vs sanders....

Vitali who is better than Cooney hit Sanders with everything in round 5 and 8 and never floored him.

It was stamina for Sanders. I mean come on, look at the Rahman fight, would you really say it was to do with his chin?

Plus he stood up to Vitali for 8 rounds before he was stopped on his feet and never went down once, he was 38!

Would Sanders get dropped and stopped by Spinks? Would Sanders get dropped in the 2nd round by Holmes?

Sanders showed a solid chin v Vitali, he showed more durability in that fight than Cooney showed in his entire career!

Cooney was probably rushed into a fight to soon with holmes, both he & sanders have question marks concerning 'what if's' around them! Had cooney not spiralled into drink and drugs!! Had sanders dedicated himself to the sport more! etc....