To drive my point that Spinks won that fight, allow me to quote dyed in the wool boxing experts' opinion:
This what Gabriel Montoya of DogHouse.com:
"Don’t get me wrong. Spinks boxed very well. In my opinion, he thoroughly outboxed Taylor who looked amateurish at times. But the fight was more frustrating than anything as Spinks provided the type of performance (sticking, moving, evading prolonged exchanges) that we all expected and Taylor seemed to barely show up. Standing flat-footed from start to finish and staring at a darting Spinks for prolonged periods of time through out the rounds, Taylor would barely assert himself enough to throw one or two punches at a time. He seemed frustrated, landing after the bell. In the corner, trainer Manny Steward kept urging Taylor on but to no avail. Taylor would always agree he had to let his hands go and then go straight back out and do the same thing he did in the previous round; stare at Spinks and try and hit him occasionally.

By the middle rounds, Taylor’s jab and right hand had made few appearances. When he did land on Spinks, it seemed to move Spinks and put him more on the defensive but it certainly wasn’t doing enough to set up a knock out or even solidify a decisive win.

The fight itself looked like a points sparring session with neither man really landing anything that mattered. It was perhaps the universes way of balancing out the carnage that was Pavlik/Miranda. It was so boring that I can’t even find enough violence in it to do a blow-by-blow report. Spinks boxed circles around Taylor to a point where Taylor seemed to stop fighting at times.

Now to be fair, when Taylor landed the shots were heavy. He did land some good right hands. And he moved forward all night while Spinks moved side-to-side, shoe shined with flurries, and fought Taylor off with combinations whenever Taylor got aggressive thus taming him a bit. In my opinion, Spinks was a puzzle unsolved by Taylor."

This what Steve Kim of Maxboxing.com had obeserved:
"Once again that seemed to be the case at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, TN, as many observers believed that Cory Spinks outboxed him over 12 rather dull and boring rounds that had the boo-birds flying around early.

Some of you can still call him 'Bad Intentions'. In my book - and many others’ - he's 1-4 in his last 5 outings. So I'll stick with 'Bad Decisions' for now. And no matter how badly his cheerleaders on HBO try and tell us how good he is or how it's never his fault his fights are unentertaining, the reality is that 'Bad Decisions' has stagnated, if not gone backwards, as a fighter.

Some will blame his Hall-of-Fame trainer, Emanuel Steward, whose voice went hoarse over the ineptitude and ineffectiveness he witnessed on Saturday night. But..."

And ohh, it's a pleasure for me to be furnished by stats from a compubox to justify my beef that Spinks won the fight.