Had these two met at light heavyweight, I would have readily picked Spinks, as I believe he triumphs heavily there. But at heavyweight, Spinks was simply too unproven and in many ways, vulnerable. Moorer's southpaw stance and further experience after being matched with a string of natural heavys would have been more pronounced at this level, and I don't know if Spinks had enough tricks up his sleeve to out fox Moorer for a long duration of time. Moorer by TKO, and probably late.
Tough one to pick. Moorer isn't Tyson and going to simply run over Spinks, it'll be a chessmatch. Moorer is more proven at the weight but Spinks only lost at this weigh in his last fight against a prime Mike Tyson, and beating a 48-0 Holmes is a nice scalp. Better than anything that Moorer did at HW (Evander was sick) I'll lean towards Spinks. He was only ever dropped by Tyson, other than that he never showed a questionable chin. I don't see Moorer stopping The Jinx. He'll have to outpoint Spinks but I can't see him doing that against the one that outboxed and outmaneuvered the unbeaten Larry Holmes.
Based off of the few fights Spinks had the Holmes fights and Cooney I think Spinks would edge the UD but it could be closer
tough question. but spinks stopping moorer ? WTF ? it is the least reasonable possibility. just not that. spinks is neither holyfiled , tua nor foreman. moorer however , can repeat the jirov fight. spinks was afraid of qawi at 175. no disrespect for qawi. but if moorer stopped jirov then he can stop spinks for sure. a focused , sharp toney didn't stop jirov and didn't deserve the big gap in scorecards that he got.