Henry Cooper dies

[astroron (Ron)]

Former British boxing champion Henry Cooper has died at the age of 76.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/13256045.stm
I have a personaly addressed Autograph to me from Henry Cooper,signed for me when I was about 15 years old
In 1963 I was in the British Army in Germany and listened to the World Title fight against Casius Clay (Muhammad Ali)
when Cooper knocked him down,Britain thought it had a world champion that night for a few minutes, but Ali came back and won the fight.
Rip Henry
Cheers

[Suzy]

I haven't heard of him unfortunately, but he sounds like a great boxer to be up against the likes of Ali. I just remember the Joe Fraser days on. A great historical memento you have there Ron. Getting that at 15 years, I'd imagine you would have been doing cartwheels all the way home!

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Suzy

I haven't heard of him unfortunately, but he sounds like a great boxer to be up against the likes of Ali. I just remember the Joe Fraser days on. A great historical memento you have there Ron. Getting that at 15 years, I'd imagine you would have been doing cartwheels all the way home!

Suzy,I will tell you the story of how I got the Autograph one day
He and his brother where both good guys

[Waxing_Gibbous (Peter)]

He was kind of a mainstay on British panel shows. Very funny was "our 'enry".
RIP.

[Sausageman (Mike Boggan)]

as I remember it Henry knocked him out and the bell went, then by some wierd happenstance Ali's glove was found to be split so they had to wait for about 4 minutes until it could be changed, you all know the result after that though.
Mike.