Eddie Machen versus Gerry Cooney
Posted: 23 Sep 2021, 19:15
12 rounds.
The dreaded "size differential". Always a factor.Joe.Kelly wrote: ↑23 Sep 2021, 23:54 I would pick Machen hands down except for the fact that he was so much smaller than Cooney. So I don't know what to say.
Machen was easily the better fighter on an inch-for-inch, pound-for-pound basis. As for Cooney, in retrospect, I just don't have much faith in him. Gerry was very easy to hit, he didn't take a punch well, and he was clumsy. But to repeat myself: the size differential between this pair, coupled with the fact that Machen wasn't a big puncher, make this one too hard for me to call.