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 ...

Coetzee’s manager Thinus Strydom confirmed to News24 that he lost his battle with lung cancer on Thursday at his home in Cape Town. This video is no longer available. A giant has fallen. The Boksburg ...

Gerrie Coetzee, a former heavyweight champion who fought many contenders and champions during the late 1970s and 1980s, died Thursday in his home country of South Africa. Coetzee, 67, died after a ...

Gerrie Coetzee hit Michael Dokes with that devastating right hook that sent him to the canvas in their WBA title fight in 1983. Photo: YouTube screenshot One of South Africa’s greatest boxing heroes ...

One of South Africa’s greatest boxing heroes of all time – if not the greatest – died yesterday after a very short battle with cancer. According to Gerrie Coetzee’s family, he was recently diagnosed ...

BOXING champion Gerrie Coetzee has died aged 67. The former world heavyweight champion clashed with the likes of Frank Bruno. He also was the first boxer from Africa to fight for, and win, a world ...

When Gerrie Coetzee won the world heavyweight boxing championship in the late 1980s, not only did he etch his name into the history books, he also united the country during the dark days of apartheid.

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 ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- 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 1980s ...