Could Henry Cooper have fought at LHW?

[erics44]

How would Henry Cooper have done vs...

Rocky Marciano
Jack Dempsey
Bob Foster
Michael Spinks


I'm just wondering. He would no doubt be elated with British boxing today, lots of bright stars and young talent.

Cooper would have lost to all of them at their best weights. Cooper had a monster left hook but he was easily cut and knocked out by the best fighters.

Cooper would have smashed them all

Cooper was regularly knocked out by the top fighters and these guys were top fighters.

Cooper may have had a chance if he was heavyweight the Foster and Spinks were light heavyweight but even then I think he may lose.

yeah I know, its amazing cooper got a hw title fight


if a fighter who had previously lost 10 on the trot fought a hw champ nowadays the bottom would fall out of this boxing forum I know that for one thing

[nuggetdotcom]

Lets be fair Cooper was pretty average, never beat a decent Yank, a bit like our other favourite Billy Walker. Both lovely blokes who made a good living out of boxing, good luck to them.

Neither was in the same street as John Conteh or Joe Bugner ability wise. This may be a controversial statement to the rose tinted glasses merchants, but I think its fair.

The best recent heavyweights we have had are LEWIS, HAYE, PIKEY and maybe JOSHUA.

Ha ha.

[johnsebastianmiran]

I saw both fights he had with Ali and what I saw was Cooper was a good boxer but his disposition was too easy and to be a good boxer let alone an all time great you have to have a good portion of the beastly side of man's best friend. You can't be tardy with a Pit Bull's dinner.

[Master]

I saw both fights he had with Ali and what I saw was Cooper was a good boxer but his disposition was too easy and to be a good boxer let alone an all time great you have to have a good portion of the beastly side of man's best friend. You can't be tardy with a Pit Bull's dinner.

I was watching the documentary Ali v Cooper was one episode on ITV4 and Cooper was a good guy but small for the new wave 15 stone plus heavyweights that were coming through.

[Spicoli]

Cooper did well to come back bigger off losses but in hypothetical vs lt hvy the punches come quicker at fresher weight, you'll find no Ali event and Cooper had more slices than a Domino's . That said he flattens Stevenson.

[Freedom]

Yes. He would probably drain down to 175 nowadays.

[Mark TKO]

Let's be honest Our Enry was no world beater and struggled big time against the ranked guys.

Had he fought today he'd have disappeared into obscurity - I remember checking his record a couple of years back and he had lost something like 5 of his first 15 odd fights.

But he was the nation's darling and no one will ever forget the punch he landed on Ali. The only time for me Ali looked properly hurt in his career and had it been thirty seconds earlier I'm sure he would have beaten him.

Having never seen him fight though, for me his career peaked with the moment below