Mike Tyson vs. Gerry Cooney.

Iron Mike has the chin to eat Gerry's left hook. Gerry doesn't
Have the chin to survive an early Tyson onslaught. Tyson
was too tough, fast, powerful, and versatile with combos and
Bodywork. I assume prime for prime. TYSON ko or tko in 2
or three rounds. Cooney is a beast though.

 

Tyson knocks out Cooney early.

 

Tyson wins, but this is not nearly as easy of a fight as some are making it out to be..

 

Tyson KO5. Cooney wobbles him early and maybe wins 1 or 2 rounds.

 

A likely scenario.

Although I don't think its out of the question that Gerry could last a tad longer.

 

Tyson wins but eats a left hook or two in the process, brutal ko under 5 rounds

 

Tyson wins by early TKO but it has the potential to be a real slugfest while it lasts.

 

Tyson KO 1

 

Tyson should stop Gerry, who had the left side of his body a heavyweight and the right a much thinner man. Gerry was a converted southpaw and I remember him winning the middleweight Golden Gloves with a 1st rd KO but he was southpaw....Cooney hit hard enough to stun and KO anyone and had a chance to catch Tyson but Tyson also hit hard and Gerry was the less sturdy of the 2...so I would pick Mike by KO before the 5th

 

First off Cooney was a genuine tough guy and everyone by this point has come to grips with the fact that if one merely stood up to Tyson and was not willing to be bullied Tyson would fold like a house of cards on a windy day...Cooney aint backing down from no one any how, and after 4 rounds or so Tyson would be looking to fall down and get the heck out of dodge!

2nd this fight could have happened, but it came during Tyson's disgraceful years of...Ahem....Drawing the color line and avoiding the White Murderers row of the 80's. Don King was scared of the public backlash had there been another white HW champion recalling the rioting that occured in the US during the Marciano years. After Tyson fought Zouski, and was taken to hell and back he declared he would never fight another white contender. Tysons ribs had been worked over in that fight, and had his gloves not been illeagally loaded during that fight he would never have been champion anyway!!!! it was not untill 95 when tyson was no longer marketable, that the public outrage forcedhim to fight McNeely ending this horrific era in our sport.....Never again, will there be a color line in professional boxing!!!!

The point is moot anyway, as Tyson claimed to be the REAL champ yet dodged Michael Spinks and Gerry Cooney. Spinks was the only one who would dare to step into the ring with Cooney after his destruction of Eddie Gregg. Yes, Spinks managed to eke out a lucky punch type of victory, but the horrendous beating he took at the hand of Cooney stole the last of Spinks heart and prime. Still refusing to fight Cooney, Tyson tried to mask this by fighting the listless cooney leftover version of Spinks....Tyson never manned up and fought the white contender and I believe at this point in history that it should be documented enough that any serious boxing fan should remember it!

Cooney stops him in 5~

 

Cooney by KO

 

If it's the Cooney of the Norton fight, this is a slugfest. Tyson would have finally got
hit as he hadn't been until Buster D.

 

Tyson would have beaten Cooney early IMO...

 

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