Alex Cooper is passionate about training boxers.
While other children were playing tag, Alex Cooper was watching every Mike Tyson fight as a young kid as he grew up to be a big boxing fan. Cooper was born on June 1, 1983, and he graduated from Mentor High School in 2001.
He later graduated from Miami University of Ohio with a degree in finance in 2005, and he earned his M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University. Cooper and his wife, Renee, have one daughter, Nora, who is 21 months old. While in college, Cooper played lacrosse, and following graduation he wanted to continue to pursue athletics as he joined King’s Gym in 2007 when he started training boxers under the tutelage of Robert Francis. By 2009, Cooper, alongside Francis, was training several fighters. During the past five years, Cooper trained Golden Gloves and Junior Olympic champions including Jeremy Abram and Aurel Love (Open Division boxers). Cooper traveled to Las Vegas in 2014 to coach Love in the Golden Gloves National Tournament where Love advanced to the quarter finals.
Currently, Cooper is the head amateur and assistant professional boxing coach at the Old School Boxing Club/ Strongstyle Fight Team in Independence under head coach Joe Delguyd. Copper’s duties include assisting Delguyd with his professional fighters as well as being the boxing coach for UFC fighters Jessica Eye and Stipe Miocic. Cooper is president of the Lake Erie Association, and he was secretary for the organization from 2013-2014.
According to Cooper, his favorite fighters are: Arturo Gatti, Keith Thurman, Mike Tyson and Marvin Hagler, and the greatest and his favorite fight of all time was Gatti vs. Ward 1. Cooper is vice president and relationship manager in the Middle Market Commercial Banking Group at Fifth Third Bank.
Cooper is a licensed USA Boxing judge, licensed professional cutman, trainer and manager. During the past four years, Cooper has acted as a matchmaker for about five amateur boxing shows a year. According to Cooper, “My goals are to bring more notoriety to the sport of boxing in the Cleveland areas and to make Cleveland area boxers more prevalent on the national scene.” Cooper is being inducted into the Ohio State Former Boxers And Associates, Inc., Hall of Fame along with Michael Melbar and Terry Strowder.