AKRON, Ohio - Michael Dokes, a former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, has died. He was 54. The Rhoden Memorial Home in Akron said Dokes died Saturday. The Akron Beacon Journal reported ...

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 ...

Gerrie Coetzee, a hard-punching South African who won a share of the heavyweight championship in 1983 when he knocked out Michael "Dynamite" Dokes, died Thursday following a short battle with cancer.

(AP) AKRON, Ohio - Michael Dokes, a former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, has died. He was 54. The Rhoden Memorial Home in Akron said Dokes died Saturday. The Akron Beacon Journal ...

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 ...

AKRON, Ohio-- Michael Dokes, a former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, has died. He was 54. The Rhoden Memorial Home in Akron said Dokes died Saturday. The Akron Beacon Journal reported ...

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 ...