RIP Gerrie Coetzee

[Jake from State Farm]

Hard-punching former heavyweight champ Gerrie Coetzee dies at 67

 

[Smallpotatoes]

When he fought John Tate for the vacant WBA title in Pretoria. the event was desegregated.

Just holding the fight there was very controversial.

I remember the next-day headline in my local paper “There was no violence outside the ring or inside it.”

 

[Webster]

Wasn’t there some controversy that he had a steel plate in his surgically repaired hand which made his punches harder?

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

He never fought Larry Holmes, so he was never the real champion.