{"id":10004,"date":"2011-05-01T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2011-05-01T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T00:18:00","slug":"former-british-heavyweight-contender-henry-cooper-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10004","title":{"rendered":"Former British Heavyweight Contender Henry Cooper Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10004\" href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10005\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Henry Cooper (Copy)\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Henry-Cooper-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Former British heavyweight contender Sir Henry Cooper has passed away at the age of 76. He is best known for knocking down a young Muhammad Ali in a 1963 bout. <\/p>\n<p>Ali was in serious trouble and his trainer Angelo Dundee created a delay giving Ali extra time to recover and Ali eventually won on cuts. Overall Cooper had a record of 40-14-1, 27 KO&#8217;s, and held British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight titles.<\/p>\n<p>RSR tolls the honorary ten count for this fallen boxer. RIP Henry Cooper.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Order The Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British heavyweight contender Sir Henry Cooper has passed away at the age of 76. He is best known for knocking down a young Muhammad Ali in a 1963 bout. Ali was in serious trouble and his trainer Angelo Dundee created a delay giving Ali extra time to recover and Ali eventually won on cuts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3285,519],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-henry-cooper","tag-muhammad-ali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}