Spinks vs Cooney. Spinks outweighed by 30Lbs. And he destroys Cooney in 5 rounds.

Couldn't stop thinking about this so I added a few fights to the earlier list and made it chronological. Does anyone know of some other good ones?

David vs Goliath Match Ups

1891-04-27 Bob Fitzsimmons vs Abe Coughle 160 lbs vs 230 lbs KO2
1892-04-26 Bob Fitzsimmons vs Charles Puff 155 lbs vs 230 lbs KO2
1892-09-07 James J. Corbett vs John L. Sullivan 178 lbs vs 212 lbs KO21
1900-04-30 Bob Fitzsimmons vs Ed Dunkhorst 170lbs vs 260 lbs KO2
1916-12-12 Sam Langford vs Battling Jim Johnson 191 lbs vs 224 lbs KO12
1919-04-02 Jack Dempsey vs Tony Drake 197 lbs vs 257 lbs KO1
1919-07-04 Jack Dempsey vs Jess Willard 187 lbs vs 245 KO3
1925-01-30 Tommy Gibbons vs Tiny Jim Herman 179 lbs vs 225 lbs KO3
1932-12-6 Mickey Walker vs Arthur De Kuh 175 lbs vs 223 lbs KO1
1934-06-14 Max Baer vs Primo Carnera 209 lbs vs 263 lbs KO11
1935-06-25 Joe Louis vs Primo Carnera 196 lbs vs 260 lbs KO6
1941-03-21 Joe Louis vs Abe Simon 202 lbs vs 254 lbs KO13
1942-01-09 Joe Louis vs Buddy Baer 206 lbs vs 250 lbs KO1
1942-03-27 Joe Louis vs Abe Simon 207 lbs vs 255 TKO6
1987-06-15 Michael Spinks vs Gerry Cooney 208 lbs vs 238 lbs KO5
2003-03-01 Roy Jones Jr vs John Ruiz 193 lbs vs 226 lbs UD12
2007-04-14 Ruslan Chagaev vs Nikolay Valuev 228 lbs vs 319 lbs MD12
2009-11-07 David Haye vs Nikolay Valuev 217 lbs vs 316 lbs MD12

 

Normally I would say this is going just a little bit to far.....Yet, in this case it seems mild and well within the boundries of a fair criticism.

 

I was really thinking more about the David and Goliath match ups where the smaller fighter wins. And while twenty pounds is rare, it's far more common than forty or fifty, especially now that we don't do day of the fight weigh ins.

 

I would usually too, but it didn't take a moment of contemplation for this joker

 

Try Michael Moorer vs Mike White

 

I lost $25 bucks on Cooney against Spinks back in '87...... I thought Cooney would KO Spinks inside 4 rds..... Cooney was in decent shape physically at 238 pounds, but mentally he was not into the fight game at all... Cooney got a nice check of $2.5 million smackers for this KO loss in Jersey, but I can't shed tears for Cooney at all..... Spinks was a well-tuned and focused 208 pound boxer / puncher... He broke Cooney down inside 5 rds.....
:bbb

MR.BILL:hat

 

Conney should have knocked out Spinks easily and would have but he (Cooney) was high and drunk the night before the fight. Cooney
was drinking heavily and on drugs and it shows in this pathetic fight.
Cooney knew after the fact that he should have never lost to Spinks and
knew deep down that he messed his career up by his problems outside the ring.

 

This fight said more that was negative about Cooney than what was positive about Spinks....although I give Spinks props for this ko, a guy as big and strong as Cooney had no business having the **** beat out of him like that. it should be positively embarrassing for Cooney to live this one down.