Sir Henry Cooper - Boxing's Greatest?

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Frank Thomas

Ай бұрын

The life and times of Sir Henry Cooper. British boxing legend and hero.
Born May 3rd 1934.

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@JH-ck1nr 27 күн бұрын

I met him once and he was a really genuine nice guy. A fantastic boxer and gentleman with it.

@rogermadeley7413 Ай бұрын

An absolute gent

@johnnycooper657 Ай бұрын

I must have derived a gene somewhere back in time. Being a Cooper, left handed, and clocking several " superior boxers " and enjoying the surprised looks on their mugs. God bless cousin Henry, hope to see you in Heaven.

@user-uj7mr2md4n Ай бұрын

Never world class,lost to to many average fighters,and not by cuts. Still a first class sportsman.

@Miguel...160 14 күн бұрын

Absolutely correct ...

@richardhughes2988 Ай бұрын

Very nice great man very tough kid great boxer rip champ

@suzukinez Ай бұрын

Great life story thanks for posting sadly Joe bugner is not in good health anymore suffering with alzimers

@karlschneider9479 Ай бұрын

Cooper started bleeding during the anthem.

@seancidy6008 Ай бұрын

His work on the break against Ali was very near the knuckle

@wlphantom Ай бұрын

Huge Henry Cooper fan here, loved his converted southpaw style, huge left hook and buckets of courage.

@hookywookywithmalarkyman704 Ай бұрын

R.I.P. our enery ey

@terencegamble4548 Ай бұрын

A great bit of boxing history beautifully explained. Sir Henry was a great boxer and a greater human. God rest his soul.

@paulweir5031 Ай бұрын

He wasn't a great boxer, and what made him a great human? What did he do for people? Was he renowned for his philanthropy? All I remember him for was his moaning and inflated ego.

@PuzSZN 17 күн бұрын

@@paulweir5031 was a great boxer, and I cant answer the second part as I do not know him

@lewistaylor1965 Ай бұрын

Proud to say I met Henry once and gave him a left handshake...Henry came to Heanor in the mid-70's...I met him there with the whole town...

@gazmad Ай бұрын

Absolutely brilliant! I can't wait for you to do some more stuff like this and very glad to have subscribed to this channel🎉

@brucemedley635 Ай бұрын

Avoided george chuvalo like the plague who wanted to fight for the commonwealth title

@allangreenley9901 Ай бұрын

One thing he didn't want to fight or even meet sonny Liston.

@david-pb4bi Ай бұрын

Henry wouldn’t have lasted one round against The Big Bear.

@antonyberry1632 Ай бұрын

Cobblers

@allangreenley9901 Ай бұрын

@@antonyberry1632 listen to a interviews with Henry on Liston he says he didn't want to meet him even walking down the street.. Get your facts in order before u say cobblers

@paulweir5031 Ай бұрын

Cooper's manager said that he wouldn't let Cooper and Liston walk on the same street: Cooper himself said " he would have made a mug of me "; something of an understatement.

@kevintrace5396 25 күн бұрын

Great example to mankind perfect man great boxer rip sir

@therespectedlex9794 Ай бұрын

Informative ty

@tonymcnamara9368 Ай бұрын

Brilliant! 👏👏

@stevebowness9435 Ай бұрын

How could Cooper have lost to Bugner on a split decision when there was only the referee ( Harry Gibbs) scoring the fight??? Clueless.

@dandemino2513 26 күн бұрын

That round delay I heard was that Dundee tore ali,s glove purposely ? to clear ali,s head, after Henry landed that hammer left hook.

@mtnstrand2819 Ай бұрын

No doubt that the bell saved Ali that night. Had that left hook landed 20 seconds earlier boxing history would have looked totally different today.

@philwilliams2505 Ай бұрын

Don't be daft

@paulweir5031 Ай бұрын

Another blinkered fan of the third rate Cooper.

@geraldfriend256 Ай бұрын

He got up quickly. Good shot acknowledged by Ali, but not changing destiny.

@ruffknight9549 Ай бұрын

Possibly as Ali got hit pretty good there. A big upset but Ali would have gotten revenge. I'd say that Holmes had a better chin than Ali.

@user-bq9ii9vz8e Ай бұрын

@@geraldfriend256 Are you serious? Ali was seeing stars and if not for the illegal help in his corner, he was completely out of it. I know you are in love with Ali, but it was what it was.

@elnick1000 Ай бұрын

From what I have heard, the rest between the rounds was not that much longer as reported. But, Angelo Dundee did admit that he did give illegal smelling salts to Ali. really Ali should have been dsqualified. I think of all the the boxers he gave praise for, Cooper was the one he gave the most. Even after his second victory over Cooper, he is interviewed and states that Cooper might have won the 3 rounds of the first 5. Also, against Bugner, it was not a split decison, but just a referees decision by Harry Gibbs I believe.When Cooper was on the British show, THIS IS YOUR LIFE, Ali spoke from the USA in honor of him. ough As an American, when I did see the match, I felt that Cooper won 8 of the 15 rounds, though Bugner did win that last round, and taht probably was what cost COoper the title. Too bad he did not have a rematch, but that Was Coopers's choice. The one boxer I wish he had fought was George Chuvalo. An interesting match that would have been.

@vercingetorixwulf9298 Ай бұрын

Five seconds I think. Henry made no complaints.

@gutz323 Ай бұрын

It was to do with a split in Ali's glove which Dundee admited (years later) to tearing bigger, to get the glove changed, to create more time.

@philwilliams2505 Ай бұрын

VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY

@anwaryussuf4449 Ай бұрын

Henry was kayod by Ingo and Floyd, he was OK but far from the best.

@user-lz9zk5ul9s Ай бұрын

Brilliant

@baraskparas9559 15 күн бұрын

The great Ali was prone to a good left hook due to lowering his hands. Sir Henry had the equal best left hook of anyone due to the whole body mode of his punch.

@CuttingEdgetools 23 күн бұрын

Cooper landed I guess a lucky Left against Clay if you wanna call it that. Clay destroyed him after that. The controversy with Dundee and such. That’s another matter- did it alter the outcome? Now Cooper VS Rocky Marciano? Well-- Rocky would have !!! Well ya all know where I’m going with this. Now the greatest Heavyweight of all time from the UK- The 6’5” fella with the incredible Reach. You know who that is!

@vercingetorixwulf9298 Ай бұрын

What are his grand sons up to?

@paulweir5031 Ай бұрын

Let's get a few things straight: Cooper only lost four times on cuts out of fourteen defeats; his win in the first go with Folley was questionable and Zora could be an in and out fighter who thought he'd take a points decision; totally different tale second time when Folley made very sure that he wasn't going to be jobbed by the ref. After the disgraceful stripping of Ali eight men were picked to contest the WBA elimination tournament while Frazier, who refused to enter the tourney, fought Buster the Blimp for what I regarded as a nonsense title. Of the ten men Cooper fought only two, Mildenberger and Patterson, victorious over the former, but only on disq. and outclassed and flattened by Floyd. Coddled by Wicks he avoided Quarry, Terrell, Spencer, Bonavena and Martin all of whom would have dispatched him; he did try to fight Ellis but was stopped from doing so by the BBB of C, Frazier would have been another disaster. Scared to put up his Commonwealth belt against Chuvalo. Knocked down a young and cocky Ali, but Sonny Banks had already done that, and then whinged for the rest of his days because Bugner beat him. The only thing I'd give him credit for is that he admitted Wicks was correct in not letting Sonny near him. A mediocre pugilist with an inflated sense of his importance.

@billt1954 Ай бұрын

As a boxing fan I can’t argue with any of the facts that you present. He may well have been “mediocre” on the world scene but he was a good domestic fighter who captured our attention and won the hearts of British fans. At the end of the day, there are ‘levels’ to boxing as there are with anything else. I must admit that far too much was made of the Ali knockdown though and he was lucky to receive such adoration from the public, especially when you consider how much stick they gave to Bugner who fought in much higher company.

@rickallen8158 Ай бұрын

After the "disgraceful stripping" of ali? At that point in time he was a "convicted felon", the boxing bodies were right to strip him, they didn't want a convicted felon as a "role model" for children to look up to, this is why there was so much distain for Sonny Liston and the boxing public wanted to see him defeated; there are laws in this country whether you agree with them or not, and if someone breaks them, there are consequences to be paid!,,,

@md4933 Ай бұрын

@@rickallen8158 yeah good call, ali should have enlisted, I'm pretty sure he was offered a noncombattle role.

@paulweir5031 Ай бұрын

@@md4933 Non-combatant is the word, and Ali wouldn't have donned a uniform to help the administration, unlike' Uncle Tom ' Louis.

@paulweir5031 Ай бұрын

@@rickallen8158 Why the quotation marks? Standing up for your principles shouldn't be illegal. I take it that you hail from the USA, a country where guns are freely available to massacre innocent people, and blacks are murdered by racist cops; laws my arse. By the way, Ali is spelt with the upper case A and distain isn't in my vocabulary.

@stevekenney2804 Ай бұрын

'enrys 'ammer!!

@chet3louisiana558 Ай бұрын

If Cooper didn't cut so easily he'd be the best ever.

@david-pb4bi Ай бұрын

He wouldn’t be the greatest ever, he got beaten by loads of mediocre boxers.

@chet3louisiana558 Ай бұрын

@@david-pb4bi wellll, so did Ali, but he is the greatest of all time. The be the greatest, you have to beat the greatest. Cooper was close.

@david-pb4bi Ай бұрын

@@chet3louisiana558 He only had a win record of about 3/4 how is that possibly the best ever?

@chet3louisiana558 Ай бұрын

@@david-pb4bi I gave a good reason. We'll have to agree to disagree.

@dretety1 Ай бұрын

Len Harvey was better.

@jamest681 Ай бұрын

Wow, Ali did that much damage in one round (5th round)?

@SqueezeLift 29 күн бұрын

Thought that was Randy couture

@user-bq9ii9vz8e Ай бұрын

Boxing's greatest? Put down the crackpipe, dude.

@jimnagel5611 Ай бұрын

THAT WAS A STRONG SOLID LEFT HOOK -- BLABBERMOUTH WAS SEEING FAIRIES FOR ABOUT THREE SECONDS

@user-bq9ii9vz8e Ай бұрын

No need for all the yelling. If the punch had landed earlier in the round, he would have probably won that fight.

@jimnagel5611 Ай бұрын

@@user-bq9ii9vz8e I LOVE TO YELL

@Miguel...160 14 күн бұрын

@@user-bq9ii9vz8e BS.. did you watch any of Ali's fights Frazer , Norton, Shavers etc... his recovery from solid shots to his jaw was second to none...he had a great chin .

@user-bq9ii9vz8e 14 күн бұрын

@@Miguel...160 Yes, he did. But, he was out of it after that punch and you'd probably admit that if you weren't a homer for Ali. I liked Ali as much as the next homer, but I'm also realistic. Ali was stung. It wasn't like when he fell against Wepner he was actually hurt you could see it in his eyes and face.

@user-bq9ii9vz8e 13 күн бұрын

@@Miguel...160 I watched every stinking one of Ali's fights going back to before he was not allowed to fight for not wanting to go to Nam for which I can hardly blame him. Ali was hurt, look at his face.

@user-st6en5ts1h 24 күн бұрын

Before he got punchy , I believe that Jerry Quarry was better than Henry Cooper was .

@md4933 Ай бұрын

There's a comment on here about henry getting knocked out by every american"black man" he fought.This is clearly not the case, please check you're facts..

@BruceJackson-lx2dw 27 күн бұрын

Very interesting: thank you, BUT he was NOT [to answer your question ] Boxing's Greatest. Putting aside any loss because of cuts, he was KOd by Joe Bygraves & Ingemar Johansson. My Reply does not detract from Henry as a thoroughly decent man.

@bradtaylor4765 16 күн бұрын

Come on, we all liked the guy. But greatest?

@Jack-bz7vq 14 күн бұрын

I think Cooper was today the same class as Ussyk. In the aera of Cooper the fighter are better. This is the reason why Cooper was not one of the best in his time. .

@philwilliams2505 Ай бұрын

He didn't knock him out the ring ...who is this bloke

@user-zz5wk8dr3w Ай бұрын

Yip,ali had to get his gloves cut to last that fight

@petecernan2568 Ай бұрын

Urban myth I’m afraid

@paulweir5031 Ай бұрын

Nonsense.

@petecernan2568 Ай бұрын

I think Ali gained an extra 6 seconds in total the smelling salts that Dundee used were illegal but overlooked cooper would have been demolished against Liston

@JH-ck1nr 27 күн бұрын

Splash it all over 😂

@ministryoftruth8523 Ай бұрын

Be serious! Just because he knocked Ali down? Ha ha ha... Ali destroyed him after the knock down.

@Miguel...160 14 күн бұрын

As much a Henry was a genuinely nice bloke...he really wasn't that good....

@richardbarton6146 Ай бұрын

best british boxer ever!

@martindunstan8043 Ай бұрын

Not even close.

@paulweir5031 Ай бұрын

Ken Buchanan, Howard Winstone, Alan Minter, Jim Watt, Benny Lynch, Jimmy Wilde, Peter Kane, Tony Sibson, Randolph Turpin; a few to be going on with.

@RobertTaylor-sw7wj Ай бұрын

Knocked spark out,every time he fought a black American!

@ravenaussie3760 Ай бұрын

He was stopped on cuts in most of his losses, including his two losses to Ali. Also, he beat Zora Folley. What have you got to say now, fool?

@allangreenley9901 Ай бұрын

Avoided sonny Liston .

@stevemoorman9481 Ай бұрын

And white Swedes

@clk76 Ай бұрын

A warrior and great personality but a fringe contender at best. He was somewhat protected (bit like Frank Bruno, since he was a good money earner) since the British wanted a Brit to be Commonwealth champion - he avoided George Chuvalo of Canada who was stronger and tougher than Cooper. If he was American or Canadian or Jamaican etc. he wouldn't really be remembered. Decent boxer but cut too easily

@allangreenley9901 Ай бұрын

@@stevemoorman9481 Frank Bruno would have demolished Henry. No problems. He only got best by world champions..

@kennethgiles-nu9dk 26 күн бұрын

sir henry said bonuger was a shit boxer with a yellow streak up his back

@deangoings Ай бұрын

Nowhere near being the greatest. Are you Freakin kidding?

@kennethgiles8375 23 күн бұрын

So Henry said bugner had a yellow streak up his back

@bradtaylor4765 16 күн бұрын

@@kennethgiles8375 if he did have a yellow streak, do you really think he’s a boxer? Cowards don’t box.

@billylo2010 25 күн бұрын

Bull 💩 on him being called the greatest!

@pz0j5y Ай бұрын

Sugar Ray Robinson..Greatest. Henry Cooper? Yawn.

@aaronhood131 28 күн бұрын

I know that's you country man..but cut the bullshit..America will lead the way in every category

@seancidy6008 Ай бұрын

His left hook was maybe the best of any heavyweight.

@paulweir5031 Ай бұрын

Patterson.

@seancidy6008 Ай бұрын

@@paulweir5031 Patterson's was definitely up there, though its most famous deployment was a leaping one (bit like Fraziers that knocked down Ali). Cooper's left, which had something of the uppercut about it, made a rather one dimensional boxer outweighed by 30lbs come closer than anyone to KOing Ali, whose chin was not the least of his attributes

@roadrunner381 Ай бұрын

Wow man, he might have beat ALI if they didn't give him a long break, he was out of it on his feet, when they hit you with that smelling sauce, you know he was dinged!🤔