M. Spinks or McCallum

Spinks was miles better in both categories.

 

Holmes beat stinks twice.

 

Spinks for me. McCallum seemed more "natural" and more smooth but Spinks was more multi-faceted, had greater power and ultimately accomplished more.

 

Did he accomplish more? Perhaps lineal titles in two weight classes trumps belts in three divisions, yes. But Mike hanging in there in perhaps the best MW division ever in his 30's might be more impressive that what Spinks did at HW, not to mention being competitive at the world stage at LHW when almost 40.

Bad ass of Spinks to skip the CW division all together, though.

 

Vow. How you figure "miles better" in both?

 

Love them both but I believe Spinks was better pound for pound. For one, he ruled an extremely stacked lightheavyweight division before moving up and beating one of the greatest heavyweights that ever lived. I scored the 2nd fight for Homes but over 30 rounds of fighting he more than proved himself.

McCallum is my personal favorite fighter of all time. With that said, he lost some fights that he probably shouldn't have and I just don't think anything he did was more impressive than Spinks Lightheavyweight run that followed Olympic gold and preceded heavyweight glory.

 

I'd say he did more, yeah. Disregarded HW, his LHW accomplishments Trump McCallum's at 154, his best weight.

 

I agree with that. But the question is if Mikes accomplishments at MW at LHW makes up for it. Maybe not, though.

 

Spinks by a mile

 

Make that 3. McCallum so overrated. A myth.

 

Spinks by a mile.

 

Spinks significantly..

 

I have to rate spinks higher. But McCallum is a damn good and underrated fighter

 

Wasn’t asked of me but I’ll share some thoughts anyways...

Spinks is the only man in history to do what he did at LHW.

Spinks is the only undefeated light heavyweight champion in boxing history. Something that can't be said about Tommy Loughran, John Henry Lewis, Billy Conn, Archie Moore, Bob Foster, or Roy Jones. In 101 years of crowning light heavyweight champion's, only one of them never tasted defeat while weighing 175 pounds, Michael Spinks.

Spinks was also the first reigning light heavyweight champion to challenge and defeat the reigning heavyweight champion. Something past greats Billy Conn, Archie Moore, and Bob Foster all failed to do.

Spinks the fighter was complete and could do it all. At 6' 2" Spinks was one of the biggest light heavyweight Champions in history. His fighting style is best described as being a boxer-puncher. He was a tremendous two handed puncher who could box and dictate with his jab and knew how to utilize his height and reach versus taller and shorter opponents. As he was forced to do in his Light Heavyweight unification bout with 5' 7" WBC Champ Dwight Muhammad Qawi, and against the 6' 6" hard hitting Gerry Cooney.

His legacy was heavily tarnished by the one loss on his record: Mike Tyson. History should show that he was never off his feet prior and it took one of boxing’s hardest, fastest hitters ever to accomplish that knockdown and stoppage.

In the last 16 fights of his career were all title fights in which he went 15-1, 11-0 at light heavyweight and 4-1 at heavyweight.