Convince me Michael Spinks won the rematch with Larry Holmes!

Maybe you can give your round by round so then we can discuss. Here's mine and if you give all the close rounds for Spinks then I can def see it for him might need to rewatch though.

Larry Holmes vs Michael Spinks II

Round 1 10-9 Holmes

Round 2 10-9 Holmes

Round 3 10-9 Holmes

Round 4 10-9 Holmes

Round 5 10-9 Holmes (close)

Round 6 10-9 Spinks (close)

Round 7 10-9 Holmes

Round 8 10-9 Spinks

Round 9 10-9 Spinks

Round 10 10-9 Spinks (close)

Round 11 10-9 Holmes

Round 12 10-9 Holmes

Round 13 10-9 Spinks

Round 14 10-9 Spinks

Round 15 10-9 Holmes (close)

144–141 for Holmes

 

I definitely felt Holmes won.

 

Holmes won

 

Holmes won. it was a robbery

 

Spinks won. The judges gave their judgment.

 

Watch the fight closely.
Holmes won.

 

I never comprised a scorecard. But Spinks was relatively idle for the first four or five rounds which put him way behind Larry. That and Holmes was landing the more effective shots throughout the fight that had Spinks noticeably hurt. It wasn’t a domination by any means but I can’t see much of a case for giving that win to Spinks. A draw might have been reasonable but even that’s stretching it

 

The 36 year old Holmes faded towards the end of the fight but,in my opinion,he'd banked enough of the earlier rounds to have got the decision - and his title back.