Incredible Tribute to the Great Leon Spinks

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  1. Jamal Perkins

    Jamal Perkins Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Spot on.......fantastic as always.....really hits the spot.R.I.P champ

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    joebeadg Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Very nice!
     
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  3. Ken Ashcroft

    Ken Ashcroft Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Leon Spinks, the only man to ever beat Muhammad Ali when he was Champion and take his heavyweight crown from him in the ring. RIP.
     
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    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    I appreciate Spinks for beating Ali...I liked the guy,...but it's a stretch calling him "great".
     
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    Leon Spinks was a class act, good fighter, Olympic champion, proud marine, and a caring individual whose dream came true one night in 1978.
     
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    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He's a "coulda been," though. He might conceivably have beaten Ali in the rematch had he trained, stayed off the booze and drugs, and had a consistent corner. Regardless, he could have won some of those big heavyweight fights, like Coetzee, and certainly had a good cruiser career.

    His demons just got the better of him.
     
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    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Agreed. He was definitely the more skilled out of the brothers. Michael just held it all together much better.
     
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    I have to disagree MIchael was almost unbeatable at light heavy.
     
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    Yeah, proper, very difficult to miss with boxing fans of a certain age with that choone.
     
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    Neon Leon R I P Champ
     
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    Jamal Perkins Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Its 1 of boxing greatest songs....and fitting that the maestro who runs that channel...makes these boxer videos...of all the boxers he chose to pair it with he chose the great Leon Spinks.Rip.
     
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    Jamal Perkins Well-Known Member Full Member

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    As you say both these great fighting brothers suffered terrible terrible events in life....Michael with his wife's death....Leon's teenage son.....both have tremendous class.....thats why I took distaste at the circus carnival depiction of early pro Leon in some newspaper tributes.....he lived a long very productive life.....was clean for decades after....raised a world champion son too.....v rare achievement
     
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    Good point. I followed boxing when Spinks was active, and no way was he great. He got lucky to beat an aging Ali, and otherwise, for the most part was a fringe contender/journeyman-type fighter.
     
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    richdanahuff Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He is really a sad cautionary tale...a small heavyweight in the era when 210 or bigger was becoming the norm the cruiserweight division was non existent....Spinks was a helluva fighter who got used to squeeze another few bucks out of Ali....he never developed into a real pro he was in the deepend early and barely tread water well enough to keep his nostrils in the air.....not the smarter fighter like Michael...he never really had a chance post boxing....I hated seeing Saad Muhamed beat him up Leon deserved better and when he was used up he was dropped like a rock by the boxing fraternity.....I did not know he was living in Nevada last I knew he was barely getting by somewhere in Nebraska
     
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    Really? Fringe contender/journeyman types win Olympic gold in the 70's against the Soviets and Cubans? He was a very talented fighter that had a short prime due to drug and alchohol abuse. He could absolutely fight.
     
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