Good fight gerrie u will always be remembered

RIP

the way Spinks got knocked here must have prompted him to leave the heavy weight category

Yup agreed

Sure he was having fun a the fair with his family lol.

no they weren't of bone crushing strength they were aimed at leon's temple and no doubt jarred his brain loose.

He was a showboating clown.

Leon as hurt as he was was willing to fight till he couldn't all heart and guts

It was the pinpoint right hand early to Spinks’ left ear that shutdown his equilibrium.

It had nothing to do with accommodating American television. The fight was not live, it was shown one minute after midnight Monday morning to accommodate South Africa's draconian Christian religion laws of the day that decreed no sport on television on Sundays.

Yes - it was like 1am at night, I remember hearing a neighbour screaming in delight. Non boxing fans must have thought- what the hell !

I saw the GC/Dokes fight live via satellite when it happened. I was like, who is this Coetzee? What a class act he was.

@Zebra Zport Marijan Benes?

@Zebra Zport Bushy Bester

@zebrazport3120 Bushy Bester.

He said that 5 seconds into the fight. Coetzee just started teeing off on Leon from the beginning.

Shakes up the inner ear where balance control is located. Hard to regain the balance in time to prevent a stoppage of the bout.

@ Gatti did it to Ward in the 2nd fight. His eardrum was actually broken.

He got bit!!!

Ali let Spinks win tho so he could win a title a 3rd time.

@@JohnLincolnHawk possibly but Ali did come out in the 15th round of their first fight like a madman. He stood and traded and showed a warrior's heart. If he wanted to lose idk why he would fight a 15th like that.

@@JohnLincolnHawk You must be smoking crack. Only for Ali would people literally try to excuse his losses by saying he threw the fight. He let Shavers measure him for those brain-damage giving shots he took against him, too, right, just to make the fight more competitive? Give it a rest.

Ali didn't train for the first Spinks fight. Didn't take him seriously. When it became clear that Spinks did have stamina (at least on that night), and wasn't going away, Ali was too far behind. When he tried to hit the accelerator and knock out Leon, there was nothing there.

@@JohnLincolnHawk did Ali also "know" that Spinks would give up a belt in order to give him a rematch, or did he just figure he would face Norton after Norton beat Spinks and beat Norton, a guy who gave him hell every time they fought? Sense this no makes.

I think it started a lot earlier than that, as a teen in the streets.....

@@milojanis4901 Actually, sparing sessions can be very brutal during training and probably account for much of the damage compared to the fight.

Did Coetzee bite Spinks on the clinch?

@@johndeagle4389 no. How do you even see that?

@@oldschoolboxing6048 Look at 1:12. It's hard to tell.

Yes. He was 'performing' for the crowd by baring his mouth guard like 'fangs'. Stupid thing to do. That means you're not concentrating on your opponent but on the cameras instead. A sign of inexperience and not a little arrogance which cost him dearly.

owadave if ali was in his prime he would have ko spinks in 1-2 rounds

@@jaydengray4015 Ali in his prime truly was "The Greatest".

owadave yes he was indeed

@Kar Che That's because "the greatest of all time" was just a marketing gimmick. Ali might very well be the most overrated boxer ever.

@@williamsmith1803 5 losses is overrated? Ali fought top competition too. He is the Greatest

@@latestgreatest526 Larry Holmes whipped Ali's azz

@@r0ckstar666 And then cried because he knew Ali was old with developing Parkinson's.

@@latestgreatest526 Ali was 38 then right? George Foreman won the title at 45 or some ridiculous age. Larry Holmes whipped butter beans azz at 53.

Or at the very least drunk Diet Coke. Cokes not good for anyone.

Add pot to the list

@James Hampton, yes, Leon was fed to the wolves in and out of the ring.

Pierre? Gerry Coetzee.

@@johndeagle4389 Wow, just WOW!! It's GERRIE COETZEE, ferchrissakes

@@milojanis4901 funny fact hes the first african to be heavyweight champion.

@@johndeagle4389 I think he's talking about Pierre Coetzer.

Can't wait for the movie about Gerrie later this year.

@George Gerber. There is a movie scheduled on the life of Gerrie starring Liam Hemsworth. Don't know when it will be released. www.gerriecoetzeemovie.com/

Leon was not very good at all

Leon was a bum.

The cruiserweight division should be eliminated. The best heavyweight of all time fought at 187...

Well, Leon Spinks won that gold medal as a light heavyweight, and was too small for the heavyweight division. Among other things, he just couldn't take a heavyweight's punch (as proved in this fight). Also, Spinks was a party animal, and rarely trained properly.

Frank Kelch All those are valid reasons but the reason that popped into my head was, "he must have fought less-than-mediocre opponents in the Olympics'.

There's no shame in losing to a fighter of Coetzee's ability. Coetzee was a really good heavyweight who'd put a whooping on plenty of today's and yesterdays heavyweights......lastly check out Olympic boxing from 76....pretty damn good crop....

This bout only confirmed to me that when Spinks beat Ali, he beat a shot fighter.

No. How did he manage to beat Ali? Ali was shot obviously!!

gbrown4x4 Self hating POS.

Good one!

2 RAW 4 TV Do not understand people that think the way you do. Every person has to support or never say anything wrong about anyone who shares the same race, it's a ridiculous way if thinking

I think you mean when he got robbed of the decision vs Renaldo Snipes. Coetzee vs Snipes was in Tarrytown, NY, 10 rounder. Coetzee dominated, floored Snipes twice, yet somehow managed to lose a decision. Maybe the worst decision in heavyweight history.

Even his brother, sometimes it works though...

Spinks got his AAAASSSSSS kicked.

Y’all just wanna say anything huh

@@jaydengray30 You are a quick one aren't you

wow, good eye!

I wondered what that yell was. I wondered was it a laugh. Then he got decked with a hard right

Bullshit

Tate, Weaver, and Page all took care of Gerrie.

According to Coetzee, that was when he told Spinks he was going to knock him out, with Spinks laughing, not howling in pain. Coetzee proceeded to make good on his promise.

None of them were televised

@@godfather71190 One of his last fights against John Carlo was on here years ago. It made me want to vomit, some pug making his debut knocked out an old, brain-damaged Leon violently and visciously in a fight that should NEVER have been sanctioned. And the bum Carlo was running around celebrating like he did something special. That was in 1994. In 2003 I hung out at a bar called Manhattan's in Carol Stream, IL, and Leon was there seemingly every time I went, and he'd get so loaded and he'd let people buy him drinks as they acted like he was some sideshow act, taking pictures with their fists, etc. He always played along, was never bitter or anything, just a very likeable dude. His wife would come get him and carry him out to their home across the street. RIP Leon.

“Not that one, the one I mixed.”

@@jogman262 You’re mixing him up with Aaron Pryor versus Arguello

@ Mpice We True. I thought Leon’s trainer was caught on tape saying something similar. But you’re right Aaron Pryor’s corner.

Yep I remember my boss telling me about it at work I was just out of High School.

No... Holmes beats Ali, Tyson beats Holmes, James Douglas beats Tyson... So James Douglas is the GOAT

@@sujitsharma4346 Now you're just being silly.

Tyson destroyed Bruno and he looked scared shitless walking into the ring.

@@joshperu2473 Bruno was never a world class fighter.

You're fulla so much shit, a septic tank would be jealous.....

@Thinker Adam

He bit Leon in the neck. Are y’all blind! Look the footage and listen. A Lady in the crowd even hollers out, “Stop biting Leon.” After the bite he threw the hook.

@@boothdos If he bit Leon why didn't Leon do something ab out it instead of greeting his teeth and continuing to fight like nothing was wrong.

Ceotzee was done when Bruno beat him ! Bruno was a big lummox.