Henry Cooper (2012)
“The worst is yet to come!’ PHILANDER CHASE JOHNSON, (1920).
If Henry thought that his straightforward stopping of Giannino Luise was a portent for the future, he was to be sadly mistaken. Statistics are seldom the measure of a man but a glance at the record book suggests that there is an exception to every rule. In Henry’s case the signs of trouble ahead were certainly not clear at Belle Vue, Manchester on 7 September 1956 when he put Yorkshireman Peter Bates down with a massive left hook t...o the mouth for what might well have been added to his resume as a first-round knockout. Bates stayed down for a nine count (not tactically – he was severely dazed) but then, amazingly enough, got to his feet. The next four rounds were all Henry’s, despite a small smear of fresh blood on his left eyebrow.
In the fifth, though, a concerned Wicks saw from the corner that ‘coming out of a clinch’ (as one report had it) there was a very serious cut over Henry’s right eye as well, probably the worst cut that he had received so far.MoreLess
If Henry thought that his straightforward stopping of Giannino Luise was a portent for the future, he was to be sadly mistaken. Statistics are seldom the measure of a man but a glance at the record book suggests that there is an exception to every rule. In Henry’s case the signs of trouble ahead were certainly not clear at Belle Vue, Manchester on 7 September 1956 when he put Yorkshireman Peter Bates down with a massive left hook t...o the mouth for what might well have been added to his resume as a first-round knockout. Bates stayed down for a nine count (not tactically – he was severely dazed) but then, amazingly enough, got to his feet. The next four rounds were all Henry’s, despite a small smear of fresh blood on his left eyebrow.
In the fifth, though, a concerned Wicks saw from the corner that ‘coming out of a clinch’ (as one report had it) there was a very serious cut over Henry’s right eye as well, probably the worst cut that he had received so far.MoreLess
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