Comments Thread For: Heavyweight Bert Cooper Dead At 53 From Pancreatic Cancer

[chirorickyp]

Biggest win. Former Amateur Champ and Olympic Silver Medalist Willie DeWitt was being pushed by CBS as a great white hope to eventually fight Tyson. On his network debut they put him against Cooper. Cooper destroyed him and bashed his nose and the blood was gushing as he laid on his stomach. Worst annaialation since Ken Norton KO'd Duane Bobick on national TV

[GreenNinja111]

RIP champ!!!

[Longhaul]

RIP never was a champ but sure scared the **** out of a lot of guys who were or would become champs.

[PowerFlow]

Damn... this man provided a lot of great fights and memories for me back in the 90s. His fight with Mercer was legendary. And who can forget his bouts with Evander and Moorer. If you haven't watched them before. Jump on Youtube and thank me later.

Rip Champ.

[hitking]

Damn this sux. Wasn’t an ATG. But, he left his mark the night he scared the hell outta Evander Holyfield.

[champion4ever]

Oh my Lord! This is tragic news. My heartfelt sympathies and condolences go out to his family. May you rest in eternal paradise champ. You will be missed!

[NachoMan]

The Smoke was no joke.

[Mooshashi]

RIP Champ.

[Bill Hodge]

RIP BERT COOPER it is a sad loss. : (

[deanrw]

He always came to fight. My fondest memory of him is when he came to Canada to fight Olympic Silver Medalist Willie Dewitt(who is now a federal Judge I believe). He changed DeWitt's career choices very quickly.