Comments Thread For: Bert Cooper - Last Action Hero

[NachoMan]

Hey BS,

I'm a big Cooper fan. Knda had the Joe Frazier style. My dad thought I was gonna be like him. Although I was not like him at all

But Cooper could probably KO anyone today!!

Your dad thought you had Bert Cooper's fighting style and he still let you fight?!? Was he your step-dad or something??

[Plick647]

attention is just as bad as money or drugs. if a person wants lots of attention, and they get it, they just want more. "but enough about me, what do YOU think about me?"

[angkag]

If you want to see Bert doing what he did best, make it round 3 of the Holyfield fight (a good reminder of how good Holyfield was too, what a chin he had and how good his power of recovery was).

[Curtis Harper]

Never read Bert called an action hero before. I guess a person has to die to get recognition.

[The D3vil]

Jesus man, this one hurts.

What a great action fighter, man.

I hate when people die without getting their due. There's just something so unfair about it.

But I never will understand how people who spend their whole lives struggling to survive make it or almost make it and then just throw it away on drugs, alcohol, and sex. I just don't get it.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Touching article. Nice to see a forgotten man get a nod. Rest In Peace, Bert.

[The_ultimate]

By Tris Dixon - The Smoke was put out for good last week. Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania heavyweight thrillseeker in the 1990s Smokin' Bert Cooper succumbed to pancreatic cancer. He was a cult hero, known for his mesmerizingly violent battles with Evander Holyfield, Michael Moorer and Ray Mercer, among many others. He once boasted to me of the job he did on Mercer's broken ja...
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Cooper gave Holyfield all he could handle when he was a replacement when Tyson fight fell through. Also Cooper vs Moorer was a classic as long as it lasted. I was at that one with my dad.

[PunchyPotorff]

When Bert was on his game, he was tough as nails, tough to beat. His wins over Joe Hipp, Henry Tillman and Willie de Wit were epic. R.I.P. Champ.

[Detroit29]

Man, this death shocked me. Bert was a real likable guy. But it's sad to see boxers go through these ups and downs (whether by his own faults or someone else's) that in the end, they only have themselves to turn to. This is why I'm not upset at all when boxers say "they are looking out for themselves". They get in the ring, take punches, train, give out so much mentally, spiritually and physically, only to have the sport in those it turn it's back on you. In those moments, where are the fans that demand "this or that"? There nowhere to be found.