Bert Cooper - The Hardest Hitting Cruiser...

I liked Bert alot in the mid to late 80's. The first time I saw him on tv was on espn when he iced Cedric Parsons in like a minute. The upset of Tillman was great: Tillman was being hyped because of of his olympic gold medal. Then, moved up to heavyweight and iced Willie DeWitt, another olympic medalist. If he had stayed clean, and remained at cruiser a Holyfield- Cooper cruiserweight title fight in 86 or 87 probably would have been even more competitve than their actual heavyweight title fight in 91.

 

cooper did hurt holyfield seriously, it is because i have no doubt in my mind, joe frazier would tko evander

 

^^:roll:

 

Cooper was a murderous puncher. He should make anyone's list of huge punching cruisers ..

 

I remember Oli McCall claiming that JC Gomez - of all people - did hurt him badly in both of their fights.
However, having seen these 2 fights, it never appeared to me that McCall was even slightly buzzed during all of the 22 rounds.

 

This thread is a damn disgrace!!!!!

Sir Bert Cooper is the hardest hitting fighter period. On modern supplements and training, George Foreman would be 7 feet tall and weigh 400 lbs and he still wouldn't be able to hit as hard as PRIME Cooper. Just read what Holyfield had to say about him in my sig, and he fought everyone.