RIP Bert Cooper

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  1. Birmingham

    Birmingham Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Disagree. Alternative medicines/practices are coming to the forefront of battling it now more so than ever(with pathetically small funding compared), them big Pharma companies aren't there to cure you and they never will, people are seeing it for what it is, a business, population controller etc
     
  2. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    Same here ,loved those fights in the 90s with Bert .Tough guy RIP.
     
  3. Rainer

    Rainer Active Member Full Member

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    Pure puncher.RIP
     
  4. HerolGee

    HerolGee Loyal Member banned Full Member

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    Birmingham, cancers not really a conventional disease though, you cant cure it. You and I probably have cancer cells now but you just wont know it for decades to come.
     
  5. JacK Rauber

    JacK Rauber Unbourboned by what has been Full Member

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    Cancer is and always will be present. It is a naturally occurring pathogen/anomaly. Cells erratically and spastically reproduce when they are stressed. That is what cancer is. And, just like people, it comes in all shapes and sizes. Funny how people talk about alternative medicine UNTIL they have cancer and then they are all in, whatever it takes to kill the killer. My dad died of prostate cancer. My father-in-law, who was a doctor, died of prostate cancer. People dropping dead every day from various types of cancer. It is not a grand conspiracy, it is nature at work. You can't kill something that is amorphous. It is a moving target.
     
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  6. GoldenHulk

    GoldenHulk Boxing Addict Full Member

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    RIP Smokin' Bert. One tough SOB
     
  7. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    RIP. Very sad.

    A very likable guy and a fun, exciting warrior when he was walking the straight line.
     
  8. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    I'll always remember his fight against the highly touted Willie DeWit from Canada. I think ABC had plans for DeWitt. That was Bert's coming out party.
    Cooper destroyed Dewitt in devasting fashion. Some people started talkin about Cooper being a threat to Tyson for a minute anyway.
     
  9. Smokin Bert

    Smokin Bert Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Truly sad news. Bert gave me some of my favorite boxing moments. (Mercer, Holyfield, Moorer). And, he was a genuinely nice guy when I met him.... A nice guy, with a murderous, sneaky right hand. Rest in Peace, Brother!
     
  10. Braindamage

    Braindamage Baby Face Beast Full Member

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    Hard is the best way to describe him. No is task fighting Cooper.
     
  11. lepinthehood

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    Shame. RIP
     
  12. LeeD1982

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    Yeah a forum I used to post on had an ex-sparring partner to the pros and confirmed that Smoking Joe was in his corner
     
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    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    RIP. One of the more exciting fighters of his era. His back-and-forth battle with Moorer and the KD of Holyfield will assure him a notable place in boxing history.