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.

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 ...

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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 ...