Henry Cooper -vs- Tommy Farr

Mismatch.

Cooper was not even in Farrs class.

 

Cooper was more or less in Farr's class. But I think Farr would win this one.

 

certainly not a mismatch.however i think a teak tough farr would simply be too persitent for cooper,not even henry's famous hammer would dent farr,who took louis' best shots.farr by ud or late stoppage on cuts.

 

But it is.

Compare their resumes. It honestly isnt close.

Cooper was a commonwealth grade fighter who had a couple of solid wins but generaly lost at world level.

Farr was a world class fighter who beat other world class fighters and former world champions. He was the fourth best heavyweight walking around when he fought Louis for the title and he might just have been champion if Louis had fallen under a bus.

Farr is the best British heavyweight of the period between Bob Fitzsimmons and Lennox Lewis and not by a particularly fine margin.

 

it isn't close? well i wouldn't know about that.many judge farr mainly from his magnificent effort against the brown bomber,but his record against other world ranked heavies isn't much better than coopers.his only real win of note was against the inconsitent max baer who'd already been demolished by louis.in fact coopers best win against a prime zora folley i would rank higher.true cooper was ko'd in a return by folley and also patterson, and johansson.however farr lost a return with baer and was beaten by braddock,nova and burman.

 

Does anyone think Farr is far far far better?

 

Only me it seems.

 

Coopers best win is Folley, is this controversal? Folley won in 2rounds in the rematch. Coopers fights at world level saw him stopped in the early-mid-rounds against Ali, Folley, Johannson and Patterson, plus he openly avoided Liston, Williams and Chuvalo