Gerry Cooney, right, begins to fall to the canvas ... The conventional wisdom was that if there was an early knockout it would likely be Holmes going down but a strong right sent Cooney to the ...

Taking place on March 11, 1981 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Gerry Cooney delivered a fast and disturbing knockout of Ken Norton, knocking him out in Round 1. Cooney's destructive ...

In this corner, heavyweight contender Gerry Cooney and his entourage ... it would be a Harrisburg cop who scored the knockout, with Cooney’s bodyguard hitting not the canvas, but a barroom ...

A spokesman for Cooney, Rich Rose, said: ”Gerry is very disgusted ... He moved his record to 31-0 with his 21st knockout and second in a row over a heavyweight. And he did it with impressive ...

While Gerry Cooney has been saving his left shoulder ... who is 30-0 with 20 knockouts. But Cooney’s record is not so impressive upon close inspection. The highest-rated opponent he faced ...

Larry Holmes’ arms were raised in victory. His reign as heavyweight champion would continue after a 13th-round technical knockout of Gerry Cooney, the man many thought of as “the great white ...

Gerry Cooney, right, begins to fall to the canvas ... and he doesn’t want to see either fighter looking to score a knockout blow. He imagines this good-natured exhibition as part of an undercard ...

Gerry Cooney was once a great white hope — a tall, powerful and handsome professional boxer — winning his first 22 heavyweight boxing matches by knockout. The boxing stage was his to dance on.