Thread: Is it me, or did Mike Spinks WIMP TF OUT?

this guy was tearing up at 29 yrs old "beat" Holmes twice, KO'd Cooney, and then fights Mike Tyson in 1988, when he was still 31 yrs YOUNG...gets KO'ed OK fine, but he sure as shit didnt take too many punches there in 38 seconds!!!

and he hasn't fought since!!!!!!!!!!!! 31 yrs old. Previously undefeated.

Spinks admitted he was scared and didn't want to fight Mike at all.

Spinks always was an emotional fella; not without reason though:

His emotions worked well when he fought Qawi, just a couple of months after his wife died in a car accident; but a bum knee that hindered his training and an inability to control his fear, cost him against Tyson.

Originally Posted by Britkid

Spinks always was an emotional fella; not without reason though:

His emotions worked well when he fought Qawi, just a couple of months after his wife died in a car accident; but a bum knee that hindered his training and an inability to control his fear, cost him against Tyson.

I don't think the bum knee had much to do with it. More like a bum heart.

Everybody was scared of Mike Tyson in 1988, but even by saying that Spinks still wimped out. A coward dies a thousand deaths but Mike was a machine.

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Britkid

Spinks always was an emotional fella; not without reason though:

His emotions worked well when he fought Qawi, just a couple of months after his wife died in a car accident; but a bum knee that hindered his training and an inability to control his fear, cost him against Tyson.

I don't think the bum knee had much to do with it. More like a bum heart.

The bum knee had quite a bit to do it with it, Spinks was big time out of shape. Yes fear had an awful lot to do with it as well; but Spinks was a warrior, he most certainly did not have a bum heart. Anyone who followed Spinks career, can confirm that.

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Britkid

Spinks always was an emotional fella; not without reason though:

His emotions worked well when he fought Qawi, just a couple of months after his wife died in a car accident; but a bum knee that hindered his training and an inability to control his fear, cost him against Tyson.

I don't think the bum knee had much to do with it. More like a bum heart.

The bum knee had quite a bit to do it with it, Spinks was big time out of shape. Yes fear had an awful lot to do with it as well; but Spinks was a warrior, he most certainly did not have a bum heart. Anyone who followed Spinks career, can confirm that.

At LH I'm sure that is all true. But at HW, he was differnt. Winning two gift decisions against Holmes and then wussin out against Tyson was anything but Valiant. Holmes losing effort against Tyson showed who really won those fight, and who had the heart. Steve Zouski fought Tyson a lot more bravely than Spinks, and I don't think he ever even cracked the top 10. But Spinks's loss to Tyson was not the most pathetic. That honor would go to Bruce Seldon, or perhaps Clifford Etienne. It's a toss up.

I cant confirm that. I can however confirm that as soon as he got hit the BYATCH in him came out and all he could think about was "In ten seconds. . . .I'll be 20 million dollars richer". And so he was.

Originally Posted by Hulk

At LH I'm sure that is all true. But at HW, he was differnt. Winning two gift decisions against Holmes and then wussin out against Tyson was anything but Valiant. Holmes losing effort against Tyson showed who really won those fight, and who had the heart. Steve Zouski fought Tyson a lot more bravely than Spinks, and I don't think he ever even cracked the top 10. But Spinks's loss to Tyson was not the most pathetic. That honor would go to Bruce Seldon, or perhaps Clifford Etienne. It's a toss up.

He bettered Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney, better than anyone else had up to that point. He took a 12+ years unbeaten record off of Holmes, and he dominated Cooney much more than Holmes did, despite giving away 20lbs+ to both. He was a warrior at Heavyweight as well

You make it sound like beating Cooney really meant something. Cooney was HYPE. Thats all he ever was. The great white HYPE.

Originally Posted by Mr. Nightmare

I cant confirm that. I can however confirm that as soon as he got hit the BYATCH in him came out and all he could think about was "In ten seconds. . . .I'll be 20 million dollars richer". And so he was.

Then you did not follow Micheal Spinks' career, he was proud brave warrior

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by Hulk

At LH I'm sure that is all true. But at HW, he was differnt. Winning two gift decisions against Holmes and then wussin out against Tyson was anything but Valiant. Holmes losing effort against Tyson showed who really won those fight, and who had the heart. Steve Zouski fought Tyson a lot more bravely than Spinks, and I don't think he ever even cracked the top 10. But Spinks's loss to Tyson was not the most pathetic. That honor would go to Bruce Seldon, or perhaps Clifford Etienne. It's a toss up.

He bettered Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney, better than anyone else had up to that point. He took a 12+ years unbeaten record off of Holmes, and he dominated Cooney much more than Holmes did, despite giving away 20lbs+ to both. He was a warrior at Heavyweight as well

George Foreman KO'd Cooney in one round. So he's better than all of em!

Cooney was never great to begin with so the notion that this was some special win for Spinks is pointless.

Originally Posted by Mr. Nightmare

You make it sound like beating Cooney really meant something. Cooney was HYPE. Thats all he ever was. The great white HYPE.

Cooney was very much for real in the early 80s. It took a near prime Holmes to eventually overcome him, he was a lot more than hype.

Spinks didn't wimp the f@#k out, he got knocked the f@#k out.