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By 1980, Cooney was being featured on national television. Stepping up, he beat one-time title challengers Jimmy Young and Ron Lyle, both by 'knockouts.' The Young fight was stopped because of cuts sustained by Young. [7] By then Cooney was ranked number 1 by the WBC and eager for a match with champion Larry Holmes. [citation needed]
Larry Holmes had been the WBC heavyweight champion since 1978, when he beat Ken Norton by a fifteen-round split decision at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.Over the course of his illustrious career, on the way to almost tying the great Rocky Marciano's record of 49-0, losing in the 49th fight, a decision to Michael Spinks, fought such fighters as Tim Witherspoon, Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver ...
Retained WBC and The Ring heavyweight titles: 40 Win 40–0 Gerry Cooney: TKO 13 (15), 2:52: Jun 11, 1982: Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. Retained WBC and The Ring heavyweight titles: 39 Win 39–0 Renaldo Snipes: TKO 11 (15), 1:05: Nov 6, 1981 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Retained WBC and The Ring heavyweight titles: 38 ...
Gerry Cooney, right, begins to fall to the canvas during the 13th round of the World Heavyweight Championship bout against Larry Holmes, June 12, 1982, in Las Vegas. Holmes is held back by referee ...
A Michael Spinks–Gerry Cooney fight had long been in the works dating back to January 1986. Spinks' promoter Butch Lewis had been talks with Cooney and his team about Spinks possibly making his first defense against Cooney after his heavyweight title win against Larry Holmes the previous September.
With Cooney, however, Foreman was taking on a former heavyweight title contender who held victories over former contenders and Foreman adversaries Ken Norton, Ron Lyle and Jimmy Young, whose victory over Foreman in 1977 sent him into a 10-year retirement. Cooney's most notable bout had been his 1982 WBC title fight against Larry Holmes. After ...
def. Gerry Cooney on June 11, 1982 def. Randall "Tex" Cobb on November 26, ... Norton was ordered to face the WBC's new mandatory challenger, Larry Holmes within 120 ...
Holmes won a 12-round decision over Shavers in that match and, in his next fight, beat Ken Norton to win the vacant WBC title. Shavers and Holmes fought for the WBC belt at Caesars on Sept. 28, 1979.