BOXING - Where are they now? - Boxers in Retirement.

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1/ Michael Spinks #1
2/ Leon Spinks #7
3/ Michael Spinks (different article) #18
4/ Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini #20
5/ Nedal 'Skinny' Hussien #25
6/ James 'Quick' Tillis #26
7/ Oscar Bonavena #30
8/ George Foreman #31
9/ Kronk Gym Fighters #36
10/ Dave 'Boy' Green #39
11/ Jeff 'Flash' Malcolm #40
12/ Frank Bruno #47
13/ Band on the Run album cover #48
14/ Teofilo Stevenson #72
15/ Marvelous Marvin Hagler #79
16/ Earnie Shavers #81
17/ Tony Tucker #85
18/ Denis Reardon #86
19/ Ron Lyle #87
20/ Mickey Walker #94
21/ Lazlo Papp #96

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Michael Spinks represented the United States as a middleweight boxer in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and won the Gold medal. He and Leon Spinks became the first brothers to win Gold medals in the same sport at the same Olympics.

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As a professional, Michael became the first light heavyweight champion to capture the heavyweight title when he outpointed Larry Holmes - who was trying to tie Rock Marciano's 49-0 record - in 1985. Spinks' final bout was in 1988 when he was knocked out in 91 seconds by Mike Tyson. After his first and only loss, Spinks retired with a record of 31-1 with 21 KOs.

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Spinks is the rare world class fighter who left the sport with money and his health and was never lured back into the ring. Spinks was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 1994 but remains nearly invisible on the boxing scene these days.

The intensely private Spinks lives in a seven-bedroom house - not including the guest house - on a secluded five-acre spread outside Wilmington, Delaware. He remains close with his former promoter, Butch Lewis. On the rare occasions that Spinks is seen in public, it's typically at an event that Lewis is promoting.

written by: Andrew Eisele

 

Feel free to add your own 'Where are they nows?' to this thread.

 

It'll be what people make of it like all the other threads Maco.

Unfortunately most 'Where are they now' boxer stories don't have as happy an ending as Michael Spinks. Chose him to start on a positive note, but unfortunately brother Leon's story isn't such a happy a tale.

 

Very cool!

More on Leon tomorrow mate - sadly includes working at Macca's - not quite the happy ending enjoyed by Michael unfortunately.

 

Leon Spinks

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Leon Spinks represented the United States as a light heavyweight boxer in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and won the Gold medal. He and Michael Spinks became the first brothers to win Gold medals in the same sport at the same Olympics.

On February 15, 1978, in only his eighth professional fight, Spinks outpointed Muhammad Ali over 15 rounds to capture the world heavyweight title. Spinks lost the title back to Ali just seven months later and his career went into an irreversible tailspin. He last fought in 1995, ending with a pro record of 26-17-3.

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Spinks was reportedly homeless just over a decade after winning the heavyweight title. Later, after getting divorced, he briefly lived in a shelter in his native St. Louis. He's been a greeter at Mike Ditka's restaurant in Chicago. He also helped start a gym in Detroit and did assorted odd jobs in California.

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....Leon Spinks at the 2006 ESPY Awards in Hollywood.


More recently, he was living in Columbus, Nebraska and working at a local YMCA and McDonalds. He was also volunteering at an after-school program for youth.

Spinks' son, Cory Spinks, is a former welterweight and junior middleweight world champion. (Cory lost his IBF junior middleweight title only a matter of days ago to Cornelius Bundrage).

Leon can usually be spotted in or around the corner at each of his son's fights.

written by: Andrew Eisele

 

[quote="DJ";7501079]anyone got info on some guys that used to fight on fox years ago like Fred Kinuthia
, Tony Weebhee (sp?), Julian Holland and the like?[/quote]


Fred represented Kenya at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, but lost in the 1st round of bouts. He turned pro at 31.

Don't know what he's doing now. But here's his BoxRec listing:

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=125389&cat=boxer

...Fred sure fought some big name opponents!


Here's a pic of Fred with Jeff Fenech:

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Good question that one??

He obviously worked with Kostya, and when his name came up about a week or two ago I wondered the same thing. I know he was a car salesman prior to Kostya - perhaps that's what he went back to???

Hopefully someone else knows the answer Dynamite.