I read in Ingo's autobiography that Henry Cooper had a twin brother named Jim. Both enjoyed strolling through Stockholm before Henry's fight against Ingo. Ingo couldn't distinguish between the two. The Cooper brothers were very friendly and cordially. According to Ingo, it was almost hard to believe that they were boxers. I checked out that Jim was a pro boxer as well. Obviously, he wasn't as successful as his brother. Well, in his debut match he beat Dick Richardson who also had his debut. Maybe someone knows more about it. Why wasn't he as good as Henry? Wasn't he as determined as Henry or just not that talented? Do you know more examples of identical twin brothers in boxing (or maybe even identical twin sisters)? Are they usually more or less equally gifted or are there often big differences?
The Charlos. Travis and Tarvis Simms. The Simms brothers actually got in a pretty violent altercation with each other that resulted in the police being called. They pulled a knife and a gun on each other. https://www.espn.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5058305 Tarvis seemed to be the troublemaker of the two. He was arrested other times as well.
I’ll see your twins and raise you the Weaver triplets. Three brothers from Diamond Bar, Calif. — Floyd, Lloyd and Troy. They fought at junior middle, middle and light heavyweight, respectively. Somewhere in the journeyman range, basically. But all had careers that were fairly lengthy.
Lavell and terrell Finger who both went by the nickname “ Double Trouble. “ They fought from like 1989 through the 90s. Believe they both started at Jr. welter. They were identical but one was a southpaw and the other orthodox. One of them ended up at middle later in his career. Neither man ever broke world class but retired with half way decent records. One of them died a few years ago. I posted the link to both of their profiles below if they can be opened here https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/7978 https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/16716
Herman and Harry Perlick of Kalamazoo, MI were twins who fought in the late 1920s and early '30s. They were look-alikes, but I'm not sure if they were identical. They seem to have been equally ungifted. Shorty and Big Boy Hogue fought out of San Diego in the late 30's and early '40s. I'm not sure if they were twins though. Shorty seemed to have been the better of the two. He defeated Archie Moore two out of three times. Big boy was kayoed in his fight with Archie.
Wonder why ‘Enry’s twin George fought under the name Jim - perhaps another George Cooper of some status around at the same time? Don’t know if they were identical (never read them described as such) but there was also Mike “Twin” Sullivan and twin brother Jack who also had a notable career.
