Two aging bulls are set to mix it up again — but this time they’ll be trading verbal jabs instead of the real thing. The 40th anniversary of heavyweight champion Larry Holmes’ epic defeat of slugger ...

Lehigh Valley Flashback June 11: In 1982, Larry Holmes KO’s Gerry Cooney AP File Photo World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Larry Holmes of Easton delivers a blow to contender Gerry Cooney during ...

Boxer Gerry Cooney was on the losing end of another meetup with Larry Holmes. The former prizefighters reunited Sunday to celebrate the upcoming 40th anniversary of their classic Las Vegas slugfest.

26-years have passed, yet it really seems like yesterday. The Larry Holmes-Gerry Cooney WBC Heavyweight Championship Bout in June, 1982, was a collision between the dominant Holmes at the peak of his ...

A rematch of one of heavyweight boxing’s most hyped championship fights is in the works — nearly 38 years later. Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney are in talks to relive the June 11, 1982, Caesars Palace ...

Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney may re-live one of heavyweight boxing's most hyped-up fights EASTON, Pa. - It looks like "The Easton Assassin" might be ready to go a couple of rounds with an old foe.

Three decades after stepping into the ring for one of boxing’s most famous fights, Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney were back together again Tuesday. But it was a different fight as the two heavyweights ...

A long-awaited rematch between Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney is the latest sporting event to be canceled in the coronavirus era, but when social distancing ends, the 70-year-old former champs wants a ...

Gerry Cooney, whose 1982 fight with Larry Holmes is the subject of HBO’s series of famous fights of the past on Wednesday, on his motivation: “I grew up in a house where I learned five things from my ...

It’s been more than 30 years since the much-hyped battle of undefeateds ended with Gerry Cooney’s team throwing in the towel and Larry Holmes retaining his heavyweight boxing crown. Now Cooney will ...

LAS VEGAS — Gerry Cooney is glad to hear Tyson Fury wants no part of any racial talk about his heavyweight championship fight with Deontay Wilder on Saturday night after having gone through what he ...