MosleyBoxing's video: Bert COOPER vs Ray MERCER BRUTAL Full Fight HIGHLIGHTS

Ray Mercer vs Bert Cooper full fight boxing highlights, (Round by Round highlights)! Date: Aug. 5, 1990, Ray Mercer had it out with Bert Cooper in the first big test of his professional career. From Jacksonville, Fla., Mercer was born into a military family, as his father was a sergeant in the U.S. Army for 20 years. Mercer attended high school in Augusta, Ga., before playing football at a high school in Hanover, Germany. Upon entering the Army himself, Mercer joined the infantry and became a TOW gunner, stationed in Germany. Mercer won his first 13 bouts fighting for the Army, then fought mostly in European tournaments under the Army’s banner. In 1985, Mercer notched one of two wins for his team on a U.S. vs. U.S.S.R, boxing show in Troy, N.Y., and he then tried out for the Olympic boxing team. The team’s assistant coach at the time, Hank Johnson, said of that venture, “There were more important things [to Mercer]… A boxer has to be true to his sport. You can’t be missing bed checks. You can’t be going to clubs.” Cooper, born in the borough of Sharon Hill, Penn., caught on to the fight game much earlier than Mercer. He hung out with “Smokin'” Joe Frazier’s son Marvin, and nephew Rodney, who were both accomplished amateurs, having both won the state Golden Gloves in Penn. Marvis was also the national Golden Gloves champion at heavyweight in 1979, and both trained out of Frazier’s North Philly gym. It was the same gym Cooper would travel to every day since the age of 12, to learn how to fight. Whatever it was that rubbed off was enough for Joe Frazier to hail Cooper as his “adopted son,” and Cooper began emulating Frazier’s style. A short amateur career led Cooper to a 9-1 record, but he had already become known as “the next ‘Smokin’ Joe'” around Philadelphia. Like Frazier, he was small for a heavyweight, both in height and frame, and relied on aggression, amplified by a sweeping hook, to do much of his damage. Source: http://thecomeback.com/queensberryrules/2014-articles/throwback-thursday-ray-mercer-wins-decision-despite-stern-bert-cooper-test.html Ray Mercer 220 lbs beat Bert Cooper 217 lbs NABF Heavyweight Title (1st defense of Cooper) Location: Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA Intro - Original Video: The Mayweather Channel Ray Mercer recalls his toughest opponent - Bert Cooper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTSUKrYHFFc FOLLOW ME ON BITCHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/mosleyboxing/ FOLLOW ME ON MINDS: https://www.minds.com/MosleyBoxing MINDS AFILLIANT https://www.minds.com/register;referrer=MosleyBoxing FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/MosleyBoxing FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mosleyboxing FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/mosleyboxingmix SUBSCRIBE & SHARE! https://goo.gl/B96GPp Most Recent Upload https://goo.gl/zKqgHy Most Popular Upload https://goo.gl/pyyWGz Channel Page Link https://goo.gl/uMHgqF RSS FEEd https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.... https://www.YouTube.com/MosleyBoxing