” Lennon wanted my bloody shorts from the Cooper Fight to raise money for peace
We kept up with each other after that and the last I heard from John Lennon was the day he wanted to auction off my bloody boxing shorts – the ones I had worn in the Henry Cooper fight.
I had given them as a souvenir to Michael Abdul Malik, a black militant from Trinidad, who had exchanged them for all the hair on Lennon’s and his wife Yoko’s heads.
The hair and the bloody trunks were auctioned off to raise money to fight for world peace.
I never knew how much my trunks were bought for but Lennon said he was glad to see Henry Cooper’s blood used for a good cause”.
