I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.
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If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.Gerry Cooney
I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
Gerry Cooney
All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
Gerry Cooney
We are in the learning stages of my organization, so we are taking it slow, to be able to help the fighters with the best options we have out there.
Gerry Cooney
The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.
Gerry Cooney
I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
Gerry Cooney
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