Season 4: #31 Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1982, Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney shared a historic night and wonderful 13 rounds in Las Vegas. Holmes was the experienced champion, Cooney the untested but heavy-hitting contender yet the backdrop of the fight was about race, which made it the biggest money fight in boxing history at the time. After the hostilities, however, Holmes and Cooney formed a friendship that endures to this day and they are something of a double act. The bad blood and the animosity has subsided but here they look back on the night they fought, their careers before and afterwards, and their relationship today, while answering some of the myths and stories that surrounded their battle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I guess that they thought that would be a great thing.
0:02.0	Reagan was probably a coony fan, whatever it was.
0:04.7	I don't know.
0:05.8	But I was in the fight for my life.
0:08.2	I wasn't thinking about any of that stuff
0:10.7	who got introduced first, who got all I cared about
0:14.0	when I came around the corner and came out before the stadium
0:17.2	was for the belt to ring.
0:18.8	And now the jab, the jab, the hammer, the homes hammer,
0:22.0	man, that's what's got it.
0:23.7	The homes hammer.
0:24.9	You can, wow, you can't teach that, surely.
0:27.4	You can't teach that.
0:28.2	You can.
0:30.4	And Harold Cosell was friends of mine.
0:32.8	And he said, call Larry over.
0:34.5	He just came over and he's knocking out Leon's binks.
0:36.8	And he started to talk to Larry about Jerry Cooney.
0:40.1	And he got jealous.
0:41.8	And he got mad.
0:42.9	He got so mad.
0:44.3	And I thought, wow, he came over.
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