Leon and Micheal Spinks

Newbie · Post by **Newbie** » 02 Mar 2003, 09:18

How good were they? What happened to them. I heard that Micheal Spinks never boxed again after he lost to Mike Tyson.

The last time I heard anyhting about them was when their nephew, Dwayne Cason, competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

TKOTOM · Post by **TKOTOM** » 04 Mar 2003, 23:47

Leon was a aggresive young fighter who out hustled Ali to win the heavyweight crown in 1978 in his 8th fight. This was the height of his proffesional carreer, he defended only once that against Ali and lost the crown. After this he had one more championship fight at cruiserweight and lost by TKO to Qwai. Micheal lost by KO to Tyson and never fight again but attends many fights and appears to have life after boxing.

matador · Post by **matador** » 06 Mar 2003, 02:50

does anyone know what happened to leon after the 2nd ali fight? obviously, if a guy beats "The Greatest" in only his 8th pro fight he's for real(yes, i know ali was past his prime). how did he rake up tons of losses especially to fighters with losing records?