CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Gerrie Coetzee, a former South African boxer and WBA heavyweight champion who defied some of his country's racist laws during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and ...

According to Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports, the South Africa native who was nicknamed "The Boksburg Bomber" and "The Bionic Hand" died of cancer. Coetzee went 33-6-1 during his professional career and is ...

Former South African and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, Gerrie Coetzee, known as the Boksburg Bomber, died at his home in Bloubergstrand in the Western Cape yesterday. He would have ...

South African boxer Gerrie Coetzee was the first boxer from his continent to become a world heavyweight champion, and famously fought Frank Bruno at Wembley Arena Want the day's sports headlines ...

Durban - FORMER Daily News journalist Farook Khan’s role in helping Africa’s first heavyweight boxing champion, Gerrie Coetzee, could be acknowledged in a movie. Coetzee is a South African former ...

Gerrie Coetzee, a former South African boxer and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion who defied some of his country’s racist laws during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s and ...

When I arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, in October, at the windy end of spring, setting foot on African soil for the first time in my life, it wasn’t to indulge in the animal voyeurism that wealthy ...

Former heavyweight boxing icon Gerrie Coetzee has died at the age of the 67. The South African giant famously won the world heavyweight title when he beat Michael Dokes in 1983, becoming the first man ...

South African boxer Gerrie Coetzee was the first boxer from his continent to become a world heavyweight champion, and famously fought Frank Bruno at Wembley Arena Former heavyweight boxing icon Gerrie ...