Olympic gold medalist 1976 Olympics in Canada, beat Muhammed Ali in 1978 won heavyweight title and 7 months later Muhammed beat him to regain his title, guy had a tough life
R.I.P.
Leon Spinks passes away at the age of 67
twentyfiveLiving well and enjoying my retirement
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last commentThat sucks. Even though he lost the fight to Tyson (in the first round) that fight was the first time I had ever heard of pay per view (I was young). I have never ordered a ppv sporting event and never will, but what a game changer (I doubt that was actually the first one ever, just the first time I ever heard of it).
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Michael spinks lost to Tyson. His brother Leon died recently.
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I remember thinking like holy shit that's a lot of money to pay for less than one round of action! I don't know what the wages were were back then, but I do remember the ppv being really expensive (or really expensive to a middle school kid anyway).
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Oh shit my bad with mixing up the names.
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RIP Leon Spinks. He was one of the great fighters of his era.
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