Leon Spinks vs Jimmy Young

Young at his Peak was vastly superior to Neon Leon, & would make him miss all night.

 

In all seriousness..this isn't the Young who took a slide downhill and lost to ossie Ocasio..it should be prime, screwed over Young. He makes Spinks look like a fool. Nice try guys, but prime, '76-'78 Young dosen't lose to the likes of Leon Spinks.

 

Leon was not very very fast, Mike Dokes was though, and Young beat him, didn't get the dec. but beat him non theless. Also, Young was not featherfisted, He busted ali up, and wasn't even going for the kill. He had pop in his punches, nice right hand, and good bodywork, he was just a safety first fighter.

 

Young lost to Ossie in 78 ...

 

Jimmy Young died and was reincarnated as Chris Byrd. Could you imagine Chris Byrd losing to Leon? No ****ing way!@Jimmy Chris Byrd Young win by easy 15rd sparring session.

 

Jimmy Young was 'horrible' with a capital 'H' in his fight with the
'slightly pudgy' and 15 lb. over-weight Jody Ballard.

Remember the fight in September 1977, Jimmy Young -Jody Ballard
was on the undercard of Ken Norton vs. Lorenzo Zanon.

Jimmy was riding 'high' on his recent upset victory over George Foreman.

Jody was riding a 'spotty record' with 6 losses in his last 9-bouts.

Jody hung with him the whole fight. Despite the judges decision,
I thought Jody won. Jimmy did nothing in that fight, least impressing
anyone.

I had it 3-2 Ballard, with 5 rounds even. That's how bad it was.

 

Young handles him easily...I saw Jimmy in the Garden as a prelim fighter and later when he graduated from the school of hard knocks (tough fights and GYM survival) and he handles any version of Leon Spinks easily...The worst version of Jimmy I ever saw was the one who showed up with man-breasts vs Ossie Ocasio, now that version of Jimmy could lose to anyone even Leon Spinks or Ossie Ocasio or Marvis Frazier because that version of Jimmy did not train at all

 

Made my day, this. Cheers to this whole thread. Building up this kind of rapport on another site-I wouldn't have the energy. Long-live ESB.

 

Man I swear we are talking about a different fight. young dominated him in the fight im talkign about.

Is this the same fight we are talking about? because Young dominated him here. Cmon.

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:deal plus leon, you know, TRIED to win

 

Oh, I say, that's a fine point. Part of Leon's game was to go ahead and punch. Young can't say the same...

 

young did often try to...not lose. that's gotta count for something

 

Number One , the claim he did not train at all is not only false but if it had any degree of truth would simply expose another weakness of Young's and that was he was never the best conditioned guy ... in addition, in a make or break career fight he immediately got a rematch w Ossie and lost that one too ... this was right after his "title" bout with Norton .. the reality was that Young was simply not that great .. he was a cutie , very effective against big, slower sluggers like Lyle or nervous wrecks like Foreman but more of an annoyance than a risk for faster guys that had stamina and could out work him ...

 

Sometimes he hit ya sometimes he didn't....10 losses in a row.....

Pretty much. Good fighter but never higher than contender status and lacked the dedication in his fights to yunno, fight.

Back to my point about his lack of dedication in his fights. Spoiled and was hard to hit clean but his low,very low workrate would make fights much harder than they had to be. Fights such as against Occasio and even Ali for instance.

 

Tommy G,

It was kind of a semi-rugged bout, Jimmy Young vs. Jody Ballard.

I expected more from Jimmy, and he was 'not impressive', maybe that's
why I thought Jody Ballard won.

On Jimmy vs. Leon,,,,,,,,,,,,,,depends on Jimmy's motivation level.