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    Default 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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    Default 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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    Default Re: Leon Spinks

    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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    Default Re: Leon Spinks

    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?
    If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why are animals made of meat ?

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    Default Re: Leon Spinks

    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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    Default Re: Leon Spinks

    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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