Gerry Cooney was managed by the wacko twins Dennis Rappaport and Mike Jones who previous to Cooney were involved with Ronnie Harris, Billy Costello and Howard Davis. For those of you that remember the career of Cooney I want to ask was Cooney the greatest or worst managed fighter ever? If Cooney was nothing but ordinary was it a miracle that he was able to fight a dominant champion like Larry Holmes for a ten million dollar each purse parity or was this a fighter that just needed to come up a bit more slowly and who he himself could have become a dominant champion?
When I look back at how well Cooney did against Holmes with limited big fight experience I see a fighter that completly fell apart after his first loss due to an extremely fragile ego. The punch and heart were there but mentally he just fell apart and was never the same after Holmes.
I remember another fighter named Alex Garcia who was offered over a million dollars to fight both George Foreman and Riddick Bowe and both times his management turned it down saying he was not ready. Garcia lost a keep busy fight and continued to lose. Ended up not fightring for much more than a few thousand dollars a fight. Bottom line you may have but one shot for a payday be ready and don't let it pass you up.
When I look back at how well Cooney did against Holmes with limited big fight experience I see a fighter that completly fell apart after his first loss due to an extremely fragile ego. The punch and heart were there but mentally he just fell apart and was never the same after Holmes.
I remember another fighter named Alex Garcia who was offered over a million dollars to fight both George Foreman and Riddick Bowe and both times his management turned it down saying he was not ready. Garcia lost a keep busy fight and continued to lose. Ended up not fightring for much more than a few thousand dollars a fight. Bottom line you may have but one shot for a payday be ready and don't let it pass you up.
