1. vs MICHAEL DOKES
The bookmakers, who installed the then-unbeaten Dokes as a 5/1 favourite, clearly did not know about the WBA belt-holder’s burgeoning cocaine habit. Regardless, when Coetzee knocked Dokes out in the 10th round, in September 1983, it was regarded as a sizeable upset at the time. Coetzee, fighting 10 miles away from Dokes’ hometown of Akron, was in pristine shape and very much in the mood. Even a focused and clean Dokes would have struggled with Coetzee on this form.