can someone explain to me how Leon Spinks with a record of 6-0-1 (5 KO's) gets a shot at a world title, and against Muhammad Ali at that, and then supposedly actually wins?
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Leon Spinks
can someone explain to me how Leon Spinks with a record of 6-0-1 (5 KO's) gets a shot at a world title, and against Muhammad Ali at that, and then supposedly actually wins?
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Re: Leon Spinks
For being so damn ugly?? I think he was a gold medalist... Only reason I can think of.
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A great ameture career used to put you on a really fast track back in the old days. If you go back even further, it wasn't uncommon for a great ameture to fight for the world title on their very first fight. Floyd Patterson defended his title against Pete Rademacher(1956 gold medalist), in Rademacher very first fight.
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Ali had cleaned up the dicision afetr 20 years domination - he needed some pocket money and Leon was the latest Bum of the Month.
backfired a bit,....... but then Ali made history by coming back and winning the title for a third time.
Hmmn - if I wanted to make that sort of history, I would ensure I lost to someone I knew I could beat in the rematch.
Too cynical?
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ALI WAS THE GREATEST. a prime ali would have made leon look so so so ordinary. wouldnt he.
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The Spinks family has been the butt of everybody's jokes for decades.
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he would though. wouldnt he. leon spinks was just your average boxer who won a title. if he had fought a prime ali, he wouldnt have not touched him.
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