{"id":8265,"date":"2011-03-03T09:27:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2011-03-03T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:27:29","slug":"bert-cooper-returns-to-the-win-column-in-heavyweight-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8265","title":{"rendered":"Bert Cooper Returns to the Win Column in Heavyweight Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8265\"><\/a><a rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8265 \" href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8265 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-534\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"RSR Boxing Headlines header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/RSR-Boxing-Headlines-header11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>45-year-old former heavyweight title challenger Bert Cooper (38-22, 31 KOs) won a split decision over 362-pound Gabe Brown (18-14-1, 12 KOs) on Saturday at Club Europe in Atlanta, Georgia. Cooper, who lost a title shot against Evander Holyfield in 1991, won by scores of 57-56, 58-54 on two cards, while Brown prevailed 57-56 on the third card. Copper returned last year after an eight year retirement and is now 2-0 in his comeback.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the main event, heavyweight Travis Walker (35-6-1, 28 KOs) took an eight round unanimous decision over cruiserweight title challenger Darnell \u201cThe Ding-a-ling Man\u201d Wilson (23-11-3, 20 KOs) by scores of 79-72, 76-75, 78-75.<\/p>\n<p>Also, local jr middleweight favorite Xavier Tolliver (23-6, 16 KOs) topped Timothy Hall (5-10, 4 KOs) over six by scores of 60-54 (twice) and 59-55.<\/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\">Pre-Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45-year-old former heavyweight title challenger Bert Cooper (38-22, 31 KOs) won a split decision over 362-pound Gabe Brown (18-14-1, 12 KOs) on Saturday at Club Europe in Atlanta, Georgia. Cooper, who lost a title shot against Evander Holyfield in 1991, won by scores of 57-56, 58-54 on two cards, while Brown prevailed 57-56 on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2821,105,319],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-bert-cooper","tag-boxing","tag-heavyweight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265","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=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}