Renaldo Snipes vs Gerrie Coetzee

I missed that fight also...... I wish somebody would send me a "Clean" copy of that fight on video or something.... Yeah, Snipes was clocked by Coetzee at least 2 X in the bout.... How Snipes got the decision I'll never know..... When the hell was that fight? It had to be around 1982 or '83....

MR.BILL

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I also missed "Coetzee vs. Pinklon Thomas"....

 

The fight was scored on a rounds basis. Under that scenario, knockdowns do no more than win a round. Coerzee won some rounds big but it didn't show on the cards. And he let Snipes off the hook & that Snipes was a competitor if nothing else & came on the second half of the bout. It was one of those bouts that show both the best and worst of both guys.

 

That's about it because Snipes did very well the 2nd half of the bout. If it was a points bout, he loses by 2 or 3 points. Coetzee always looked real good early and he was a dangerous guy early. Snipes hardly had an eye appealing style and was pretty much a junk fighter stylistically. He took a good punch tho and absorbed well and always landed those telegraphed shots of his. You could say he was the type that gets the most out of the least.

There was some talk of a Cooney--Snipes bout back then but it died.

 

Co-Managers---Jones & Rappaport ruined Gerry Cooney by feeding him a diet of too many bums and stiffs....... After the loss to Larry Holmes in 1982, poor Ol' Cooney went into hibernation until the fall of '84 when he fought Phil Brown in Alaska, and George Chaplin in Arizona.... Jesus, that was a weak comeback effort....

Gerrie Coetzee would clobber and KO Michael Dokes in Ohio in 1983, but then got himself KO'd in his first defense against Greg Page in South Africa in late 1984.... In 1986, Coetzee got iced by Franky Bruno in ONE round on national TV.... That was it for a decade for Coetzee..... Coetzee would end up a TKO victim of Iran Barkley on ESPN 2 in the late 1990's.....:yikes

MR.BILL:bbb

 

It was almost universally among the magazines voted robbery of the year.

 

To be entirely truthful i haven't seen the full fight. I've read plenty on it, and all pointed the same way. Huge rip off.

 

Good band.

I think it was a pretty sloppy fight from description memory.

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Take your time, but i want you to watch it mate and give your opinion after finally having seen it

 

To the contrary he got about 3 title shots so he didn't do too bad.

 

I always enjoyed both fighters. Gerrie had what was referred to as a bionic right hand. Seems like the hand had been broken several times early in his career and he had some operations on it where the doctor fused some bones together or something. He fought a lot of top fighters, Dokes, Thomas, Snipes, Page, etc.

Snipes had that odd style and also fought lots top fighters. My favorite moment with Snipes is when he finally threw a "straight" right hand against Larry Holmes and dropped him like a sack of potatoes.

 

BIG DEE HERE= First time I`ve seen it in a long time but I haven`t changed my mind
as I agree with the late Carol Castellano who was a very,very good judge and was for my money was one of the best judges in the last 50 yrs in boxing history. This woman
deserves to be elected to the Hall of Fame as a judge as she wasn`t only a great judge
of boxing for a woman but for anybody. MAN OR WOMAN, she was damn good and knew
what she was looking at. Coetzee won the damn thing HANDS DOWN WITHOUT QUESTION. OH ONE MORE THING THAT BIG RIGHT HAND PUT HOLMES ON HIS ASS
BUT COETZEE JUST LOOKED AT HIM LIKE IS THAT ALL YOU GOT. HOLMES DUCKED COETZEE FOR YRS AND HE DID IT BECAUSE COETZEE WAS A STYLISTIC NIGHTMARE FOR HOLMES AND HE KNEW IT. SO DID EVERY GOOD TRAINER IN BOXING.