Gerry Cooney Quotes
My father would never have lost to Holmes.
The King was correct in what had happened but had poor intelligence as to the strategic significance of the two Forts in the Lake George, New York area. The forts controlled the northern end of Lake George and the southern end of Lake Champlain---the major waterway from Canada into the Hudson Valley. The British victory had no effect on the Americans because the British already controlled Canada and the Americans were no longer trading with Canada before Ticonderoga and Defiance were taken back by the British.
Gerald Arthur Cooney is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1990, and challenged twice for world heavyweight titles in 1982 and 1987 (for the WBC and linear version in 1982 and 1987, and for the lineal version only in 1987).
