This fighter kept coming up in schedules of other fighters we've looked at. Career started out modestly successful but turned south. Came in front of me again as I was looking at Phil Muscato. So I side tracked and decided to take a look at the American Henry Cooper.
Much of the biography was written by Chris Mund.
Henry Cooper - HW - USA
Career Record: W31(KO 7) / L49(KO 13) / D2
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Original Rating by Christopher S. Mund who had his rating file as Hank Cooper, not Henry Cooper as BoxRec lists him i suppose to differentiate with Britains Henry Cooper file in the game. I changed it to Cooper_30s.
If its true that no one likes a poor loser, everyone must have loved Henry because he was quite good at it. The start of his career was not half bad. Cooper had himself a respectable 18-9-2 record at the close of 1937. He had a brief spurt of wins in 1939 that included a win over LHW Herbie Katz; but unfortunately, the balance of Cooper's career was a sling shot ride down hill. Were it not for a dislocated shoulder forcing Oscar Goode to stop beating on him, Henry would have lost his last 18 bouts. Instead, he was one and seventeen for that stretch. Cooper even found it tough going with smaller opponents, losing bouts to Light-heavies including Billy Conn, Gus Lesnevich, Herbie Katz, and Melio Bettina. He even dropped a bout to Middleweight Matt Raymond who tipped the scales 30 pounds lighter.
Found an account of Henry on the website
www.jewsinsports.org. It notes he was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. This article recounts his biggest fights with Conn, Lesnevich, Katz and Joey Maxim.