Henry Cooper

**Master** · 03-09-2013 05:37 AM

Cooper was left handed so that hook was his power hand.

Today with plastic surgery Cooper would have been a top cruiserweight beating up Enzo and Huck.

**Dia bando** · 03-09-2013 09:24 AM

Do no something Henry Cooper, was a Gentleman not many in this sport but he showed how,
a professional fighter should conduct themselves in and out of the ring.
Great pity there are not more like Henry Cooper, all them loud mouth shit bags take note.!

**Master** · 03-09-2013 11:02 AM

It is slowly coming back to me, he was a great advocate about using the jab and varying the speed and strength of it so that you do not become predictable.

**Dave1066** · 03-09-2013 03:18 PM

Indeed Cooper was left handed, and even wrote in Tackle Boxing, that had he started boxing 20 years later he probably would have been a southpaw.

Yeah agreed he would be a top fighter today. Yes Cooper lost some fights. But then if you look at the opponents he went up against. Some of them with an massive weight advantage, which didn't put him off and he won..Rarely nowadays do you see fighters with such a massive difference in weight fight.

Cooper is all for being unpredictable. Not only does he mention about varying the power of the punches, but making sure your combinations arn't predictable. Be creative is what he advises aswell. Enry advises not to go all out in the first round of a contest, and save your best punch for later. Especially in the later rounds, if its coming down to points. To surprise your opponent and the referee and judges. He's also a fan of doubling up, not just jabs, but hooks aswell. And punching say a straigh right to the body and follow by a straight right to the head. Tackle Boxing is without a dout, the best all rounded how to box manual I have ever read. Even most of the how to box sites online nowadays, who republish "old school" methods, or think they are inventing new training techniques are only really reinventing the wheel.

Yeah agreed Bando. Enry was what I call quiet confident. He was so sure of his abilities, qualities, and weaknesses. He didn't need to mouth off. Which is what a gentleman is. At the end of the day, someone who has to mouth off all the time. Is insecure and trying to cover up a weakness, whether thats an physical weakness or mental weakness..