Let me tell all of you jokers on this forum that think Gerry Cooney was just some over-hyped white hope with no real skills, during his prime from 79-82, Cooney was a bona-fided killer with maybe the hardest left hook ever. He kinda telegraffed it, but would murder opponents when he caught them. Look what Cooney did to just past his prime Jimmy Young, cut him to ribbons in 4 rds, Young was covered in blood, and Young would fight on and lose close decisions to rising Heavyweights like Page, Tucker, and a few other big names,...but noboby destroyed him like Cooney. I met this guy in a gym back in Philly, he was a heavyweight boxer named Oliver, I can't recall his last name...well any way he was a black guy about 6'1 240 IBS with his nose all broken and crooked and he even had one calliflower ear, a good guy and we talked and he showed me pictures of himself in different training camps like Holmes before the Witherspoon fight, Carl THE TRUTH Williams, he said that Williams trainer the late Carmine Graziano would set you up by saying that "WHERE GONNA GO EASY TODAY AND WORK ON SOME THINGS"... and Williams would try to take your head off. And of course Mike Tyson in the Catskills, he told me Tyson would just kill his sparring partners, but on his rare bad day sparring, he said the sparring partners would try to get some pay-back. He told me that he would stay out late and that Cus D Amato would lock the doors at 10:00 every nite and would not open the doors for anyone, so Oliver would stand on the porch till 4:00am when Tyson rose to do his roadwork, and Mike would let him in. He told me he would ask Tyson to borrow money and that Mike would reach in his pockets and give him usually what ever he had on him, and that Tyson never would ask for it back.He also was in Mike Weaver traing camps, and he was in Cooneys training camp and he told me by far,...Cooney was the hardest puncher of them all, he told me his left hook was devastating, he saw Cooney sparring with 20oz gloves, he would be getting out boxed and then BOOOM!!! Cooney would land a left-hook and the guy would be out cold,.... 2o.oz gloves and all. The way he talked this happened alot. So Cooney was no joke, when he fought Spinks in 87 Cooney really had not fought in 5 yrs, and then he fought Foreman who had been fighting ever month for about 3 yrs straight. Cooney had not fought since Spinks in 87, not to mention Cooney looked like an old man, probably from abusing his body from drugs and alcohol for the past several years. But in his prime he had a left hook like a hand grenade. And I could see Wlad maybe stopping Cooney in the 8th or 9th rd...but I could see Cooney catching Wlad early and stopping him in the 1st or 2nd rd also. And as Forrest Gump would say "THATS ALL I'M GONNA SAY ABOUT THAT"