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Henry Cooper

1934 - 2011

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Sir Henry Cooper (3 May 1934 – 1 May 2011) was a British heavyweight boxer. He was undefeated in British and Commonwealth heavyweight championship contests for twelve years and held the European heavyweight title for three years. In a 1963 fight against a young Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali), he knocked Clay down in Round 4, before the fight was stopped by the referee, Tommy Little, in Round 5 because of a cut to Cooper's left eye caused by Clay. Cassius Clay had correctly predicted he would defeat Henry Cooper in Round 5 by knockout. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Cooper is the 136th most popular boxer (down from 91st in 2019), the 4,333rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,562nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Boxer.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Henry Cooper ranks 136 out of 496. Before him are Zhang Zhilei, Spartaco Bandinelli, Samuel Berger, Boris Lagutin, Alfredo Porzio, and George Hunter. After him are Antonio Roldán, Antal Kocsis, Wolfgang Behrendt, Anthony Joshua, Gerald Dreyer, and Josef Němec.

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Among people born in 1934, Henry Cooper ranks 419. Before him are Tullio Baraglia, Jacques Chessex, Pino Caruso, Buta Singh, Phil Ramone, and James Franciscus. After him are Mark Strand, Joseph Bologna, Luis Maidana, Anne Osborn Krueger, Ramón Marsal, and Engelbert Kraus. Among people deceased in 2011, Henry Cooper ranks 352. Before him are Ragnar Lundberg, Kiyonori Kikutake, Yrjö Hietanen, Per Berlin, Aloysius Ambrozic, and Krishna Prasad Bhattarai. After him are Jan van Beveren, Ingrid Sandahl, Hubert Sumlin, Sergo Kotrikadze, Ken Olsen, and Joe Arroyo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Cooper ranks 4,334 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Palmer-James (1947), Stephen Mangan (1968), Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132), Piers Sellers (1955), Richard Knill Freeman (1840), and Eric Brook (1907). After him are Michael Heseltine (1933), Cecilia Colledge (1920), Stephen Barclay (1972), William Powell Frith (1819), Youth (1960), and Virginia McKenna (1931).

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Among BOXERS In United Kingdom

Among boxers born in United Kingdom, Henry Cooper ranks 7. Before him are Dick McTaggart (1935), Lennox Lewis (1965), Ronald Rawson (1892), Tyson Fury (1988), Bob Fitzsimmons (1863), and Harry Mallin (1892). After him are Anthony Joshua (1989), Frederick Grace (1884), Naseem Hamed (1974), Ted Morgan (1906), Amir Khan (1986), and Albert Ireton (1879).

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