The sparring partners of Henry Cooper

[Caractacus]

who were his sparring partners over the course of his career? (1954-1971)
Did he have regular sparring partners ?
Did he have difficuly finding any the same size as "The American Big Boys"
he would fight ?

[Caractacus]

well for starters,for his fight against Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title in 1966.
Cooper sparred with the California heavyweight Jim Fletcher
( and for the record Ali sparred with Jimmy Ellis)

[dalcumly]

Brother George. Roy Enifer, Des Cox, Alonzo Johnson, Terry Murphy, Rocky Campbell, Richard Dunn, Bob Paget plus others.

[Caractacus]

are any of them still alive to be interviewed ?

[Caractacus]

this dude (Michael Mather) had sparred with Henry Cooper back in the day.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ttack.html

[Caractacus]

British heavyweight Johnny Prescott also sparred with Henry Cooper.

[dalcumly]

Yes, Prescott did spar -once. See what happened in the book !!!

[Controversial]

Billy Daniels.

[Caractacus]

anyone know of anyone else ?

[evrenb]

anyone know of anyone else ?

Giorgio Masteghin
John Spensley

[bennie]

Eduardo Corleeti, Howard Rainey.

[Caractacus]

and the primary source for you guys information concerning this ?