"This is your Life" - Henry Cooper (Documentary) 

Yeah, look at us now a fucking disgrace I agree ☝️

As a Brit I say thank you for the compliment. As you suggest though, it's a quality we are beginning to lose.

@@martm216 What a lovely family.

Why? What qualities do Brits lack nowadays that they used to have back then? Just asking out of interest.

@Andrew Whyte Haha, the days where people left their doors open, ain't that something? And about the backbone thing, there may be some truth to that... but there just might be a few counterexamples to that. Still, it's the exception, not the rule I guess.

Henry was a gentle man outside of the ring, I doubt anybody disliked him.

Sir 'Enry is a class act, he is one of only two people to have ever knocked the GOAT(Ali) on his butt.

thats nice ☺

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Correct! Now they throw knighthoods etc at them before they're hardly grown or finished their own sport! Henry's charity work went on longer than his boxing career!

I was thinking pretty much the same thing, what a contrast with today's Britain eh?

He said that about Earnie ShaversI believe, not Cooper

@@JamieTransNyc actually it was to and about Cooper, watch Ali's "this is your life" - near the end. They had a lot of love for each other

@@HenryMcGuinnessGuitar He actually used that line multiple times about various fighters. He liked to butter people up, he just wasnt as good at it as Foreman. Wikipedia: Ali later said Shavers was the hardest puncher he ever faced, stating "Earnie hit me so hard, it shook my kinfolk back in Africa" although Ali had previously used this amusing line in reference to various other hard hitting opponents.[7]

@@JamieTransNyc I watched the Shavers fight on YT recently - he certainly did hit pretty hard!

@@JamieTransNyc Certainly he said that about Henry Cooper. Probably said the same about Ernie Shavers. Both enormous punchers !

He hits hard too

Every friends of ali said "ali is a very gentleman"

I could not have said that better myself. Henry Cooper, the gentleman of boxing with that magic left. God bless

Very well said.

You could say, Cooper was to boxing as Charlton was to football

I think you're in love with him. So he hit hard and he was polite? That's all it takes to get your gushing praise? I praise the people that sacrifice and volunteer to help the homeless and environment and things like that to make the world a better place Nothing against Henry Cooper, just come on stop worshiping him like he's Jesus or something.

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Henry had a good punch but was vulnerable to cuts and chinny. The idea that he could have beaten Liston is risible, and Cooper’s manager said he wouldn’t let him in the same room as Liston, let alone the same ring.

@@DHTCF Hi, My assumption about Cooper being able to beat Liston is based upon my belief that Cooper was getting better and better. His last fight with Joe Burger was a close fight and Burger had a hard and close fight with Ali. Liston, after his two fights with Ali had lost a lot of confidence as well. So Cooper versus Liston after Liston's two defeats against Ali would've been interesting.

@@bjornsundberg1947 but you wrote that "he could have beaten Liston had he got the chance to challenge him before Ali did", so any loss of confidence after fighting Ali came after you said Cooper might have beaten him. It's true that Cooper was on a good run up to the Bugner fight, but it's also true that - save for his points win over Zora Folley - whenever Cooper went up against real world-class opponents, he came up short. Cooper seems by all accounts to have been a genuinely nice man, and to floor Ali (who had a tremendous chin) is quite something. But he cut easily and was very vulnerable to anyone who could hit.

@@DHTCF Yes, I really thought that he might have had a chance, though not so big, but most boxers, including our own Ingemar Johansson, thought that Liston was invincible after his two first round KO:s against Patterson. Anyway, as you also believe, Cooper was getting better and better and should have fought Liston at some point of time before Liston quitted boxing, as we would then have got a better understanding of how good or bad Cooper was. One thing we can agree on is that Cooper was a really nice and humble man, and Liston was not such a bad guy that media made us believe. He was often provoked by the authorities and bullied by many.

You've destroyed your own culture. Take responsibility for your failures.

Hey, the British had influences that were seemingly detrimental to cultures and societies at the time. Beetles, Animals, Twiggy, punk rock, etc,.... So let's don't be picky.

Uhh... no he didn't Ali got right back up

​@@class1sportzers337Angelo Dundee admitted using salts during the break and ripping Ali's glove . It only took him 25 years to own up to it ! The smelling salts can clearly be seen on the video of the fight . So the Yanks cheated in order to win .

R.I.P Ali

A lot of it was politeness as Ali contradicts things he has said elsewhere, for example that Karl Mildenberger was his toughest opponent and that Floyd Patterson was the fastest. Ali suggests that it was Cooper's cut eyes that prevented him from having more success when this is really a myth. It just happens that Cooper's two most high profile fights ended this way and only two other bouts in his career were stopped due to cuts. Ali chooses not to mention that Cooper was knocked out by Ingemar Johansson, Zora Folley and Floyd Patterson and cuts had nothing to do with any of those losses.

@@deanthonyjones790 The fact he was a one arm fighter supports my argument that he was not as effective as Ali claims. His early fights aren't really relevant because this was when he was still developing and improving which is why I made no mention of them. I don't see the relevance of him fighting at Light Heavyweight in the Olympics - so did Ali. And, in any case, the Middleweight gold medal at the Olympic games where Cooper competed was won by Floyd Patterson who would knock Cooper out as a professional. If you want to talk to me about facts then you really should get yours straight first. Cooper's first defeat as a professional was not against an undefeated opponent but instead was against a guy with 14-7-6 record.

@@deanthonyjones790 You need to read my messages properly and everything I said was factually correct. So let me correct you on each of the points you made. 1) I never said Cooper fought at Middleweight in the Olympics. I said Patterson fought at Middleweight in 1952 at the Olympics where Cooper competed at Light Heavyweight. 2) You said, and I quote, 'Henry Cooper lost his first two bouts to fighters who were UNDEFEATED and naturally "BIGGER" men' This is wrong because, as I said before, Cooper's first defeat was against a guy with a 14-7-6 record. 3) The fact that you have boxed does not somehow magically improve your knowledge of other fighters' careers although the punches you took could affect your ability to read properly and think rationally. This would explain a lot, including your apparent belief that when putting four points in order you use the words 'First, second, third and third...' 4) There's so many things wrong with what you wrote: - 'Muhammad Ali "LOST" every round until the round in which he cut Henry's eye' That's your (probably biased) opinion. Check out eyeonthering.com and you'll see that the majority of people disagree with you. - 'He got KNOCKED OUT'... No, he didn't. He got 'up at about 3' as mentioned in the commentary of the bout which you yourself said is on RU-vid. You claim to have been a boxer yet you don't know that a floored fighter has 10 seconds to get up to avoid being knocked out. - 'Angelo Dubdee cut his glove to buy time' The guy's name is Angelo Dundee, try to get it right. He was only one of the most famous trainers and cornermen in the history of the sport. There's no evidence he cut the glove, it might have split and, in any case, it extended the break before the 5th round by only 6 seconds.

@@deanthonyjones790 No, sorry, mate but the referee didn't count to 10, the fight wasn't stopped. Ali was not knocked out. Did you really need to have that explained to you?? Are you actually this stupid?

His mom served meals for the school cafeteria and she'd give them an extra portion. Very humbling.