Pierre Coetzer

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Pierre Coetzer born June 12, 1961 is a former Heavyweight (Over 200 lbs/90,71 kg) boxer from Pretoria, South Africa. Coetzer’s most notable fights were probably those against Johnny DuPlooy, Riddick Bowe, Frank Bruno and George Foreman.

Professional career

Coetzer began his professional boxing career in 1983. After winning his first 9 fights he was matched up against the American Bernard Benton who was rated at cruiserweight. Although Benton out-pointed Coetzer over 10 rounds in their July 1984 bout in Durban, revenge would come for Coetzer when he knocked Benton out in the first round at Ellis Park Indoor Arena, Johannesburg on 28 September 1987, 3 years later.

His next fight was for the vacant South African Heavyweight Title against Benny Knoetze in September 1984. Pierre KO’d Benny in round 3 to take the vacant title.

Over the next 3 years Pierre notched up 12 victories; including wins against Larry Frazier, ‘’Young’’ Joe Louis, Alfredo Evangelista and Bernard Benton. It was at this point where he came up against the Puerto Rican Ossie Ocasio. Ocasio was a fighter of great potential and during his career had already won the WBA Cruiserweight Championship of the World, and defeated such men as Jimmy Young (boxer), Dwight Muhammad Qawi, Robbie Williams (boxer) and "Young" Joe Louis. In their first fight on 6 March 1988, Good Hope Centre, Cape Town, Ocasio out-pointed Coetzer over 10 rounds. This was Pierre’s first loss since winning the vacant South African Heavyweight Title. But after defeating Tim Anderson (USA) and Manoel De Almeida (Brazil) in his next two fights, he set up a re-match with Ocasio (26 November 1988, Standard Bank Indoor Arena, Johannesburg). This time Coetzer won on points over 10 rounds.

He went on to win 6 more fights before facing up against local heavyweight Johnny Du Plooy. Du Plooy had won 196 of 200 amateur fights and scored 17 knockouts in his first 20 fights. Both men had defeated a host of former world champions and name fighters en route to the top but everybody wanted to see them in action against each other.

They met on August 4, 1990 at Superbowl, Sun City in a bout billed “Once and For All.” Du Plooy started off well and cut Coetzer with the very first right he threw and had his man down towards the end of the first round, but the extremely strong Coetzer dropped Du Plooy twice in the second round and won the fight by TKO.

Coetzer went on to earn a #1 contender spot for Evander Holyfield's IBF world title, but was made to fight a WBA Heavyweight Title Eliminator (scheduled for 12-rounds) against the #2 contender Riddick Bowe. The bout took place on 18 July 1992 (Las Vegas, Nevada), and although at the end of the fight Bowe was ahead on the scorecards of all three judges, Coetzer disagreed. Bowe had hit him below the belt in the 6th for which the referee Mills Lane had deducted a point, and again in the7th with what appeared to be a right-handed low blow. On this occasion Coetzer turned away, anticipating that Lane would deliver a warning to Bowe and left his hands down and absorbed a jolting right uppercut. Bowe then followed with a left and right that drove Coetzer into the ropes and Mills Lane stepped in and waved an end to the match. "It definitely shouldn't have been stopped," said Coetzer. "It was a low blow." Bowe had claimed a controversial 7th round TKO.

Coetzer then fought Frank Bruno (from London, England). The referee stopped the fight in the eighth round and Bruno was awarded an 8th round TKO. The last bout of his career was against George Foreman. Coetzer was knocked down in the 4th and 8th rounds and Foreman was awarded a TKO in round 8 of 10.

Professional boxing record

39 Wins (27 knockouts, 12 decisions), 5 Losses (3 knockouts, 2 decisions) [1]
Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round	Date	Location	Notes
Loss	71-3	"Big" George Foreman	TKO	8	16/01/1993	Reno, Nevada, United States	Referee stopped the bout at 1:48 of the eighth round.
Loss	34-3	Frank Bruno	TKO	8	17/10/1992	Wembley, London, United Kingdom
Loss	30-0	Riddick "Big Daddy" Bowe	TKO	7	18/07/1992	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	WBA World Heavyweight Title Eliminator. Referee stopped the bout at 2:59 of the seventh round.
Win	7-12	Carlton West	TKO	1	16/05/1992	Bealeton, Virginia, United States
Win	30-6-2	Dan "The Businessman" Murphy	TKO	3	19/10/1991	Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Win	76-7-1	Jerry "Wimpy" Halstead	PTS	10	27/07/1991	Sun City, North West, South Africa
Win	31-6-1	Jose "El Nino" Ribalta	PTS	10	11/05/1991	Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
Win	20-17	Ken Lakusta	TKO	2	16/02/1991	Thornaby, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Win	12-4	Kimmuel Odum	TKO	10	15/12/1990	Marino, Lazio, Italy
Win	26-6	J.B. Williamson	PTS	10	08/11/1990	Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
Win	23-3-1	Johnny du Plooy	TKO	2	04/08/1990	Sun City, North West, South Africa
Win	30-5-2	Philipp Brown	TKO	9	09/06/1990	Sun City, North West, South Africa
Win	17-9-1	Everett "Bigfoot" Martin	UD	10	05/05/1990	Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States	98-94, 99-94, 99-95.
Win	15-4	Bobby Hitz	KO	1	09/09/1989	San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States	Hitz knocked out at 2:59 of the first round.
Win	38-7-3	Michael Greer	KO	6	29/05/1989	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	18-3-2	James Pritchard	TKO	8	18/03/1989	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	22-9-1	Mike "The Giant" White	TKO	8	11/02/1989	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	22-5-1	Ossie "Jaws" Ocasio	PTS	10	26/11/1988	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	4-8-1	Manoel "Clay" De Almeida	TKO	4	28/09/1988	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	22-9	Tim "Doc" Anderson	KO	2	15/08/1988	Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Loss	21-5-1	Ossie "Jaws" Ocasio	PTS	10	06/03/1988	Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Win	18-4-1	Bernard "The Bull" Benton	KO	1	28/09/1987	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	60-11-4	Alfredo Evangelista	PTS	10	30/08/1987	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	4-2-1	Chris Jacobs	KO	2	08/03/1987	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	9-4	Luis "Negritillo" Lozano	KO	1	27/09/1986	Sun City, North West, South Africa
Win	13-0-1	Kevin P Porter	TKO	6	14/05/1986	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	34-7	Tommy Franco Thomas	TKO	2	02/04/1986	Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Win	28-5-1	Eddie "Young Joe Louis" Taylor	TKO	9	19/02/1986	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	19-5	"Laughing" Larry Frazier	PTS	10	30/09/1985	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	19-1	Dion Simpson	TKO	8	07/09/1985	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	19-3	David Jaco	KO	6	08/07/1985	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	16-1	Rocky Sekorski	PTS	10	13/05/1985	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	23-10	Mark "White Lightning" Lee	PTS	10	25/03/1985	Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Win	20-1	Bennie Knoetze	KO	3	22/09/1984	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa	South African Heavyweight Title.
Loss	14-1-1	Bernard "The Bull" Benton	PTS	10	16/07/1984	Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Win	28-29-5	Leroy Caldwell	PTS	8	21/05/1984	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	24-6-5	Felipe "Pantera de Arosa III" Rodriguez	TKO	2	31/03/1984	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	3-12	Billy Joe Thomas	TKO	5	28/01/1984	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	16-10-2	Steve Gee	PTS	8	03/09/1983	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	8-1	Ron Ellis	KO	4	04/07/1983	Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Win	12-2-1	Louis Hendricks	TKO	5	11/06/1983	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	5-3	Jerry Shezi	PTS	6	23/04/1983	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Win	5-9-1	Caiphus "King Kong" Masondo	KO	2	14/03/1983	Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Win	--	Isaac Ndlamlenze	TKO	1	05/02/1983	Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

External links

• Professional boxing record for Pierre Coetzer from BoxRec
• sportspotter.com

References

• thesweetscience.com
• allboxingstats.com
• cyberboxingzone.com