The Sharks' chief executive officer Eduard Coetzee led the tributes as the South African sporting fraternity mourned the passing of former heavyweight champion Gerrie Coetzee. | Sport24news
Tributes have flowed in for the late South African heavyweight boxer Gerrie Coetzee.Coetzee won the WBA title by beating Michael Dokes in 1983.
The Sharks' chief executive officer Eduard Coetzee led the tributes as the South African sporting fraternity mournedThe"Boksburg Bomber", who won the World Boxing Association heavyweight title when he beat Michael Dokes in 1983, succumbed to lung cancer on Thursday. Eduard Coetzee, who played rugby for the Sharks, Bayonne and Biarritz, said boxing legend, who was 67 at the time of his passing, was more than a sporting personality to him.Coetzee tweeted.
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