"Holmes vs. Cooney" 1982...

It's very easy to download and combine the fights off of youtube.. on a dvd

 

Inimitable style makes up for any deficiencies you might have in that area. (I'm probably less technologically proficient than you are.) Nobody here composes and presents opinions quite like you do. You sir, are a genuine original!:good

 

Without our demons / issues, would this world still be interesting enough to live in? Should we all crave sameness and dullness instead?:-(zzz

 

Rappoport and Jones did a good job of getting their guy a title shot. Not a good job of getting their guyto be a long term champ, I think they said lets take the shurer thing and all get rich. He did a good job with Holmes, but Holmes is probably the greatest heavy of all time, or at least right up there with the best. And at his best. Figure Gerrys best scenario was to go in there and blow him out in a few rounds. But, in not doing that, he actually fought fairly evenly with Holmes for hat, 13 rds? He did great. What he didn't do is go out and fight some contenders right away after that loss. What a shame, what could have been?

 

I remember reading how Jones didn't want the Young fight. Thats confidence, huh?

 

Hagler v Leonard was pathetic whys that I enjoyed it at the time and have since and think the right man won too.

 

Cooney failed himself. He had the classic bully mentality and was a ring coward who looked everytime for the easy path and opponant. The only reason he fought Spinks when retired was because he was bigger and thought he would have an weasy win for the title. He wanted no part of real contenders in a climb to the title. He was the biggest bum and coward I've seen in 47 years in the sport. and he still blames others to this day for his lack of intestinal fortitude and tenacity. Cooney fans are the most brainwashed idiots I've ever dealt with.:hi:

 

How many contenders YOU fight in your time? :roll:

 

Ironically, MB, it wasn't a left hook at all, but a vastly improved right hand that was responsible for the decisive cut. At 1:24 of the Google Video Part 2 of their bout, you will see it. A long right splits Jimmy's guard, immediately followed by a hook to the body, just as a long right from Frazier tore open Jerry Quarry's face in their rematch five years earlier. (Immediately after that head cross-body hook combination, you can see Young dabbing at the freshly opened cut with his right glove.)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5133066924024761275#

Valle and Gerry worked hard on developing Cooney's right hand, and it paid off against Young. Later, he initially stunned Norton with a right, and flattened undefeated Philipp Brown with yet another right in 1984. Strangely, Gerry got away from using that right against Holmes, and it cost him. Ultimately though, his right hand did become arguably better than Ingo's hook.