Gerry Cooney V Jess Willard ?

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  1. DavidC77

    DavidC77 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    If it was the 1990 version of Willard then my money's on Cooney.
     
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  2. ray fritz

    ray fritz Active Member Full Member

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    I GOTTA GO WITH COONEY 15, IF 20 OR SO ROUNDS WILLARD HE BEAT JOHNSON IN 26
     
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  3. JackSilver

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    Don’t matter how many rounds it’s scheduled, 15, 25 or 45, I can see Cooney busting up Willard face and body within 5 rounds or so to force a stoppage.
     
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  4. FrankinDallas

    FrankinDallas FRANKINAUSTIN

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    STOP SHOUTING.
     
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  5. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Based on?
     
    BitPlayerVesti, Dec 12, 2018
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  6. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    1915 Willard v 1980 Cooney
     
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  7. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    1980 Cooney within 4 rounds.

    A massacre.
     
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  8. JohnThomas1

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    Cooney by stoppage.
     
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  9. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    Willard easy favorite.
     
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  10. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    Willard should be the favorite here.

    Rate him or not, he did enough to be favored over any fighter, who didn't beat a top ten Ring Magazine ranked contender.
     
    janitor, Dec 13, 2018
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  11. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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  12. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Ken Norton was in the Top Ten in March 81. His next fight was against Cooney in May.

    Jus' sayin'.
     
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  13. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    my eyeballs and my gray matter.
     
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  14. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    He was ranked #10 in the end of year rankings for 1981.

    I think that I am right in saying that he was outside the top ten when Cooney beat him, but I am open to being corrected on that.

    It would only have taken one person above him winning a key fight, to bump him out.

    Now if I am wrong, and he had still hung on to the #10 ranking, then it would be roughly equivalent to a win over Kubrat Pulev now.
     
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  15. Pat M

    Pat M Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I don't like to comment on these hypothetical fights since they are just opinion, but the "eye test" tells all I need to know about Willard. Willard is as unimpressive on video as any fighter I've seen. I wouldn't bet on Willard against Terry Lee Kidd (Cooney's 8th opponent).
     
    Pat M, Dec 13, 2018
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