Cooper refused to speak to Gibbs for several years, but eventually agreed to shake his hand for charity six months before Gibbs died. In Cooper's later years, he retired from commentary on the sport as he became "disillusioned with boxing", wanting "straight, hard and fast boxing that he was used to from his times. After his retirement from boxing, Henry Cooper maintained a public profile with appearances in the BBC quiz show A Question of Sport and various advertisements, most famously in those for Brut aftershave.
Cooper had become a "Name" at Lloyd's of London , and in the s he was reportedly one of those who suffered enormous personal losses because of the unlimited liability which a "Name" was then responsible for, and he was forced to sell his Lonsdale belts.
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Considering his long career, Cooper had suffered relatively little boxing-related damage to his health apart from "a bit of arthritis ", remaining, in the words of one journalist, "the living manifestation of an age of tuxedos in ringside seats, Harry Carpenter commentaries, sponge buckets and 'seconds out'". Cooper was married to Albina Genepri, [26] an Italian Catholic, [26] from until her death from a heart attack aged 71 [25] in Cooper was the first to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award twice in and and one of only four two-time winners in the award's history the others being Nigel Mansell in and , Damon Hill in and , and Andy Murray in , , and Cooper was given the award in for going unbeaten throughout the year.
His second award came in , when Cooper had become the British, Commonwealth, and European heavyweight champion.
He is the only British boxer to win three Lonsdale Belts outright. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other people named Henry Cooper, see Henry Cooper disambiguation. Retrieved 2 May Retrieved 3 May Archived from the original on 25 July The Palm Beach Times. Remembering Cassius Clay- Henry Cooper".
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