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 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 ...

According to the Daily Mail, actor Liam Hemsworth is going to play Africa’s first world heavyweight champion Gerrie Coetzee in a motion picture called "Gerrie". During an interview on Jacaranda FM's ...

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 ...

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 ...