Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney are in talks to relive the June 11, 1982, Caesars Palace brawl, the two pugilists told the Daily News. Famed boxing promoter Lou DiBella is helping put the exhibition ...
Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini hopes to call attention to not only the problems veterans face, but also to be a solution.
And there hasn't been a legitimate Great White Hope since 1982, when Gerry Cooney lost to Larry Holmes in one of the most highly publicized events in sports history. And because people want that ...
Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney was a heavyweight boxing match that took place on June 11, 1982, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It was one of the most highly anticipated fights of the early 1980s.
I remember the first boxing magazine I ever bought off a newsstand. It was World Boxing, with Gerry Cooney on the cover. I was 11 years old and I flipped out. In those years Sports Illustrated ...