What if Gerry Cooney had been on the 1976 U.S Olympic Boxing team ?

[Caractacus]

How would he have done ?
Whom would he have had to fight to make the US Team in the first place ?
( he would have still been 19 yrs old)

[gilgamesh]

He would've been going up against Teofilio Stevenson in the Gold Medal match assuming he made it there right? That would've been interesting.

Who's the biggest name that Stevenson beat in his Olympic career?

[tiny_acres]

He would've been going up against Teofilio Stevenson in the Gold Medal match assuming he made it there right? That would've been interesting.

Who's the biggest name that Stevenson beat in his Olympic career?

No idea how he would would of done

[Caractacus]

Cooney would have fought John Tate at the Olympic Trials.
John Tate had fought Michael Dokes and Marvin Stinson
to go to the Olympics.

[Ambling Alp II]

Never saw Cooney as an amateur. Actually, don't think he would have been at the highest weight class at the time. He was only at 175 in 1975. However, he was over 200 when turned pro in early 1977.

[Caractacus]

[Caractacus]

-1980-

[Nile4000]

How would he have done ?
Whom would he have had to fight to make the US Team in the first place ?
( he would have still been 19 yrs old)

Can't see him beating Tate or Dokes to get there. Or Stinson and Clark for that matter.

[Ambling Alp II]

Just watching Cooney, from that fight, you could tell that he was a work in progress. Couldn't believe how skinny he looked. The left hok was already there. The other fight should have stopped after the second time that the other guy's mouthpiece fell out. He was obviously doing that to stall. Cooney did move pretty well early on. He looked exhausted by the end. You could tell that he some ability, and in time could be good. No ready for the Olympics.

[Caractacus]

How would he have done ?
Whom would he have had to fight to make the US Team in the first place ?
( he would have still been 19 yrs old)

Can't see him beating Tate or Dokes to get there. Or Stinson and Clark for that matter.

That's funny, I see him 'clobbering" all those guys getting the chance to face Teolfilio Stevenson
for the Gold.
(that would be a tough one to call)

[Caractacus]

[Nile4000]

How would he have done ?
Whom would he have had to fight to make the US Team in the first place ?
( he would have still been 19 yrs old)

Can't see him beating Tate or Dokes to get there. Or Stinson and Clark for that matter.

That's funny, I see him 'clobbering" all those guys getting the chance to face Teolfilio Stevenson
for the Gold.
(that would be a tough one to call)

You're a better man than me. Could see Stinson and Clark especially dragging Gerry into places he wouldn't want to go.

[Caractacus]

Well, I may have been exaggerrating some.
(The Bronze medal would have been more realistic)
as you may have had a point.
I remember reading a book chapter by Gil Clancey,
who said that when he was a match maker for Madison Square Garden,
he wanted to match Gerry Cooney and Marvin Stinson.
However Cooney's trainer and managers had nixed the idea.
(without telling Cooney)
The word got around to Cooney (via his sparring partners)
and it was said to have psychologicaly "destroyed" Cooney.
if his managers and trainers thought that Marvin Stinson was too good for him,
and that maybe he was a bum.

[Caractacus]

anyone know whom Gerry Cooney's coaches were and what gym he trained out of as an amateur ?

[pound per pound]

How would he have done ?
Whom would he have had to fight to make the US Team in the first place ?
( he would have still been 19 yrs old)

As a 19-year-old kid, Gerry Cooney was still very raw as an amateur all arms and legs. Long, powerful, and dangerous, but inexperienced and unpolished. I think he was likely to have medaled (probably bronze) at the 1976 Olympics, especially if he had landed on the opposite side of the bracket and avoided Teofilo Stevenson early.

[Caractacus]

a bronze in the Olympic Trials or the Olympics themselves ?
I think it would have had to have been a combination of "KO's" and Byes"
for him to get to the Olympics quite frankly.
(It could have happened)