Quote Originally Posted by amat
That was a great fight, one of my favorite ever in fact and while Cooney hit hard as hell, I'd stray very far from calling him a great fighter.
At that point though Cooney was 25-0,and had just scored succesive knockouts on Ken Norton,Ron Lyle,and Jimmy Young,matter of fact he won his next 3 fights by KO,until finally sucumbing to age and Michael Spinks in 87