THERE are some lovely myths and tales about the life and times of Sir Henry Cooper.
The split glove saving Muhammad Ali in their first fight, selling his three Lonsdale Belts for peanuts, swimming the British channel in a race with Joe Bugner, holding a life-long grudge against a referee, being an Olympian, getting knocked out cold too many times, weighing 13st with weights down his kecks. Some are true, some should be true, and some are pure fantasy.
Cooper now has his own statue in South London, close to where he lived. It stands 7ft 9ins and
