Given Cobb's granite chin. could he absorb Cooney's vaunted left hook. and drag Cooney into the trenches for a close decision win. or is "Gentlemen"Gerry's power just too much for Cobb?
I already did a thread of this dream fight...... I like Cobb late or Cooney within 4 rds..... If Cobb can survive Cooney's early assault, I think Cobb wears down Cooney late in the fight.... Cooney always fell apart after the 6th round..... MR.BILL
Cooney by TKO, Cobb Can take Gerry punches but his eyes swell up and he gets dropped by a body shot, Cobb was not a puncher so no threat to Gerry but 10 rds would be the most Gerry ever went
There's no way Gerry is going to drop Randall, so I say he wins a UD after 10 in a hard-fought fight.
Anyone got the blow-out KO loss Cobb suffered in around 1985 against Dee Collier? I believe it was aired by ESPN at the time... I was working that eve and missed recording it on my VCR because I spaced off.... I've never seen what happened to Cobb in that bout... MR.BILL
Cobb took some hellacious body shots from Shavers without flinching, and he did have a heavy jab, his best punch. Physically, he was much stronger and more durable than Gerry. Beyond that, he wasn't really a bleeder, or prone to facial swelling. Punching technique is all Cooney's, but he'd have to execute off the back foot. Tex would be taking all the forward steps in this one. What might save Gerry is that Cobb wasn't the sort of puncher to put him down. Cooney had better steel his frail psyche, because Tex would never stop coming at him, and walk through everything Gerry threw.
True... But from what I heard, Dee Collier put all kinds of dings and dents into Cobb's mug in 1985 on Cable TV..... Time chips away at the stone.... MR.BILL:bbb
I have "Cobb-Spinks" from 1988... CHRIST! They fought like drunken sailors in a bar in some tank town... An epic slugfest for such sloppiness throughout... It was beautiful.... I have a rough copy.... MR.BILL
I didn't see it, but I did watch Cobb go down at the hands of Eddie Gregg, and was not convinced Tex was in any great distress. (Of course Tex was pretty stoic during competition, so my impression could be deceiving.) Given the questionable nature of some of Cobb's latter career dealings, I wouldn't be shocked if he laid down for a payoff.