# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerry-cooney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:33:27.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerry-cooney"
name: "Gerry Cooney"
slug: "gerry-cooney"
description: "Gerald Arthur Cooney is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1990. He challenged twice for world heavyweight titles in 1982 and 1987. He is widely regarded as one of the hardest punchers in heavyweight history. He beat Ken Norton, S. T. Gordon, Ron Lyle, and Jimmy Young late in their careers. He boasts an 85.7% knockout to win percentage."
tagline: "American boxer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerry_Cooney_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1956-08-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.63
  momentum:             1.261538461538461
  historical:           8.178246666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gerry Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "جيري كوني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيرى كونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Cooney"
    title: "Gerry Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Cooney"
    title: "Gerry Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Cooney"
    title: "Gerry Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "گری کونی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Cooney"
    title: "Gerry Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Cooney"
    title: "Gerry Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q734244"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump