Gerry Cooney vs Ingemar Johannson

Cooney. ko 3.

 

Lets start with a single contender curently ranked in the top ten, before we start to ask whether he could beat Patterson or Johansen.

 

50-50 fight.


Two huge punchers/big time finishers with weak chins and poor work ethics. Cooney has huge size advantage. Johansson slightly better fundamentals.

 

He did but with cooney we have a small window to go on. He proved he had a lot of qualitys in losing to Holmes -sadly his one real test in his prime. we cannot gauge cooney on the fighter he might have become had he been more active and had better competiton we can only go on what he was - a sensational prospect who bypassed a seasoning process then nosedived after his first loss to an albeit great fighter.

Clearly for punch alone cooney has a chance here, I just think that ingo's right hand could come over cooneys lead left hook, remember the swede was fast enough to time patterson so cooneys speed wont beat ingo.

 

Holmes did make Cooney hit the canvas early with a right hand:

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Probably the best answer posted, straight up although I will argue that Cooney had far more talent but then nothing is more common than wasted talent ..

 

compare that with cooney though. yes he was big but when gerry came on the scene the HW picture was dominated by Holmes. the next best were dokes, weaver and page. cooney did not beat any of them. later he bypassed witherspoon, Bruno, smith, berbick thomas and Tyson to meet micheal spinks but lost anyway. Later stil he bypassed another bunch during the holyfeild era to get beaten by foreman...its not that good.

when patterson came along archie moore and huricane jackson were seen as the next best after marcinao retired - he knocked both out. floyd could not have done better.

The best heavyweights during floyds time as champ were ingo, machen and Liston - floyd fought all three, beating two of them.

As an ex champ the best fighters around that he could of faced were Ali, ellis, quarry, bonavena, chuvalo and frazier. floyd missed out frazier but met the rest and only ali beat him him clearly.

Altogether as a HW Floyd waas only KOd by Liston, Ali and Ingo....and he beat one of them, and he fought all 3 twice, where is the disgrace in that?

Apart from joe frazier, Floyd met all the major players in the HW division from 1956 to 1972 and fared well against them.

 

good points, with more seasoning cooney might have been great.

No doubt if cooney lands first its over, but it is the same the other way around. ingo was the same size as joe louis - he was not a crusier and he won fights giving away 20 odd pounds against men with winning records.

I like cooney, it is a crime he never got to be a belt holder because he brought far more to the table than 90% of the lost generation. Cooney was a winner with a champions attitude but the fact is, for all his potential and atributes ingo surpasses him in the way of form -and big time performances. I have to go with the pedigree here. Ingo was effective at a better level - and Holmes beats him also.

 

Cooney ko 2

 

Because wide left bombing Cooney was always open for the right hand. Ingo would find this opening too.