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 Sun 1 May 11 21:41 
 RIP 'enry - Robin O'Reliant
Passed away today aged 76.

A sporting gentleman.
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 Sun 1 May 11 21:44 
 RIP 'enry - Iffy
Robin,

We are not psychic.

Who is dead?

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 Sun 1 May 11 21:47 
 RIP 'enry - Zero
i assume Henry Cooper!

Thats terrible, a really really nice fabulous fella, met him a couple of times at fundraising do's for disabled kids. ,

The punch that put "clay" down - what a peach.,

Ali later said on British television that Cooper "had hit him so hard that his ancestors in Africa felt it".
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 Sun 1 May 11 22:49 
 RIP 'enry - Manatee
I also met and chatted with Henry in about 1982/3 I think, when he did a celebrity appearance for a business partner. Modest, intelligent and kind man was my opinion of him at the time.
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 Sun 1 May 11 21:48 
 RIP 'enry - sherlock47
There is only one 'enry!

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/13256045.stm
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 Sun 1 May 11 21:58 
 RIP 'enry - Stuartli
Whispering Ted Lowe has also sadly passed away at the age of 90.
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 Sun 1 May 11 23:14 
 RIP 'enry - CGNorwich
Ted Lowe was the voice of snooker from "Pot Black" onwards. A quote from the early days.

"And for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green,"
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 Mon 2 May 11 08:13 
 RIP 'enry - Iffy
...And for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green,"...

That's one of those stories which ought to be true, even if it isn't.

The one I've heard with my own ears is John Motson commentating on a Sunderland AFC v Tottenham game at the old Roker Park.

He said: "For those watching in black and white, Tottenham are in all yellow."

The comment wasn't quite as daft as it sounded, because Sunderland were in black shorts and their trademark red and white striped shirts.

What Motty meant was black and white viewers would recognise the Spurs players because their strip was plain, and all the same light colour.

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 Sun 1 May 11 22:47 
 RIP 'enry - Robin O'Reliant
>> There is only one 'enry!
>>

Don't tell me, tell Iffy ;-)
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 Sun 1 May 11 22:59 
 RIP 'enry - CGNorwich
Remember listening on the radio to the fight with the then Cassius Clay. Cooper's big weakness was he cut easily. A good man who will be missed.

Every time one of the names you grew up with dies it seems a little bit of yourself goes with them.
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 Sun 1 May 11 23:07 
 RIP 'enry - Zero
i only ever saw my father really angry once, and that was when Joe Bugnor "beat" Cooper. He reckoned the "fix" was in
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 Mon 2 May 11 08:11 
 RIP 'enry - BiggerBadderDave
"Passed away"

Do you mean he died?
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 Mon 2 May 11 08:24 
 RIP 'enry - corax
No more Brut 33 then.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAVffcLkIKw&NR=1
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 Mon 2 May 11 12:01 
 RIP 'enry - Chris S
I remember Henry Cooper's Brut ads as well - until then aftershave was known as 'poof juice' and most men wouldn't wear it.
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 Mon 2 May 11 19:54 
 RIP 'enry - Robin O'Reliant
Brut was the most effective paint stripper you could buy, shame it didn't smell as nice.
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 Sat 21 May 11 22:37 
 Sir Henry Cooper. - Dutchie
Program about Henry Cooper on the television great British fighter and person.

They don't have fighters like him anymore a gentleman and a scholar as they say.

Never met him he had a hell of a punch.
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