He won the World Boxing Association title in 1983, became a symbol of racial comity and showed a surprising gentleness in public. By Alex Traub Gerrie Coetzee, a South African heavyweight boxing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Daily Mail, actor Liam Hemsworth is going to play Africa’s first world heavyweight champion Gerrie Coetzee in a motion picture called "Gerrie". During an interview on Jacaranda FM's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking through the annals of South African heavyweight boxing since James Robertson Couper was reported as the first claimant of the South African heavyweight title after beating Joe Coverwell in ...