Gerry Cooney Vs Leon Spinks?

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  1. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    The very best of both guys.
    Would Cooney s power prove too much for the other Spinks brother ?
    Or could Leon defy the odds?
     
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  2. mr. magoo

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    Yeah I think this may be a mismatch. Guessing Cooney wins early
     
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  3. he grant

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    Cooney blowout ..
     
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  4. Fergy

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    I always like to try and give the under dog a chance, look for a way he could possibly have won.
    But Leon, at his very short term best, isn't winning imo.
    In fact it could be over within minutes.
     
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  5. mr. magoo

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    Sometimes Leon could surprise people ( and he might ) but on the surface this looks like a repeat of the Coetzee fight.
     
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  6. Fireman Fred

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    Cooney early and brutally.

    Do be honest I think Qawi would do better against Cooney than Neon Leon!
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  7. Russell

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    Over 15 I might back a 200ish pound Qawi against Cooney to be honest, if the odds were decent.
     
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  8. Fergy

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    He certainly surprised the Greatest!
     
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    The Greatest wasn't even good by 1977. Leon Spinks beat a shell.
     
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  10. mr. magoo

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    I think his point was just that it wasn’t supposed to happen. And Leon was a seven fight novice and a small heavyweight
     
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  11. Flash24

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    He surprised WHAT WAS LEFT of the greatest.
    Prime Ali destroys Spinks, any version up until 1975 beats him .
     
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  12. janitor

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    It is certainly not a mismatch.

    Cooney lost every important fight of his career.

    I don't think that he ever beat a man with a top ten ranking.

    The same is more or less true of Spinks, outside of eh obvious exception.

    Cooney obviously has a stylistic advantage, but where did that ever get him?

    It is not so much a question of who wins, as a question of who loses.
     
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  13. JohnThomas1

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    Cooney is a terrible matchup for Spinks. Spinks only chance is to get into Cooney's suspect mandible before Cooney's knocks him out. The trouble there is that Spinks was a bit powder fisted.
     
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  14. SwarmingSlugger

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    Cooney brutally in 1 or 2.
     
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  15. Saintpat

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    My heart is with Leon but his ribs and jaw are with Cooney’s wrecking ball of a left hook.

    Good night Leon, you’re going to bed early this time.
     
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