Word: cooney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...champ's class shows in a punishing win over Gerry Cooney...
...once, the hackneyed billing of a fight-"The Pride and the Glory"-fit like 8-oz. gloves. Gerry Cooney turned out to be the pride, Larry Holmes the glory. In fact, Holmes was both; he was everything. Elegant when the fight was not, eloquent when nothing needed to be said, except maybe one thing. "I'm very sorry that I'm not what you expect," said Holmes after it was over. "I'm sorry that I'm not Muhammad Ali... that I'm not Joe Louis." He even apologized for not being Leon Spinks...
Rushed into the top challenger's position after 25 short victories, and rusty from 13 months of inactivity, Cooney fought Holmes more than twelve brave rounds, until he could barely stand up and his trainer, Victor Valle, could stand no more. With fewer than ten seconds remaining in the 13th round, Valle scrambled under the ropes and ran across the ring, folded his arms about his fighter and propped his head on Cooney's chest. He held on dearly. The fighter's left eyelid was sliced, and the bridge of his two-tiered nose was split...
...Cooney possesses thunder in his left hand, but he has goose down in his right, and, most unhappily of all, he does not know how to defend himself. He was knocked sprawling in the second round and sent reeling in the sixth. With fairly good body punches, though not his absolute best, Cooney surely won the fourth round and maybe he took two or three others. But that was all. Scandalously, two Nevada state athletic commission judges had him leading at the end by rounds, six to five with one even, and behind on points only because Referee Mills Lane...
Rocky is a meat-and-potatoes exemplar of the American dream, a working stiffs contender who battles for his dignity against odds that seem overwhelming. Rocky III, premiering just two weeks ahead of the Cooney-Holmes championship match, extends a fresh set of sweat-stained victories to Rocky's loyal fans...