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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boksburg boxing great Gerrie Coetzee(67) died on January 12 after he had succumbed to illness. Ekurhuleni boxing great and former World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion Gerrie Coetzee ...

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