Word: cooney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ladies and gentlemen," the ring announcer bellowed a few minutes after the usual postfight bedlam commenced, "a word from the challenger." Cooney came to the center of the ring to get the microphone, and with his soft voice cracking, he told the 32,000 people exiting the parking-lot stadium at Caesars Palace, "I tried with all my heart. I love you. I'm sorry." Later he pledged to "go back to the gym and try harder," saying, "I have no excuse to make. I want you to know, I didn't fight the fight for the money...
...Cooney threw a profusion of low blows. The most dizzying one, in the ninth round, made Holmes double over and take 21/2 of the five minutes offered him by the referee for recovering. But they seemed to reflect Cooney's amateurishness rather than viciousness, not to mention a frantic desire to connect with his left hook. "Cooney was tired," said Referee Lane. "He said 'I'm sorry' a couple of times." In the prefight noisiness and nastiness, Cooney Manager Dennis Rappaport, a newcomer to boxing who may be better suited to wrestling, predicted that Holmes would...
...didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish," Holmes said. "I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head...
...that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...
...green silk robe decorated with his customary Irish shamrock proclaiming GERRY, DAD AND MOM. Rappaport wiggled beside him, waving an oversize replica of Holmes' championship belt, except with a clockface drawn over the insignia and the words TICK, TICK written across it. Holmes happens to be 32, Cooney 25. As he had planned for weeks, Cooney bided the time during the referee's instructions by staring at the champion's belly, trying to chill him with the thought of body punches. And Holmes did show considerable respect throughout, jabbing away from a politic distance and flinching from...