“I knew what it took,” Spinks told the Camden (New Jersey) Courier-Post in a 1985 interview. Leon had boxed just seven times professionally when, as a 24-year-old, he went in with Ali.
Louis, he won the Olympic light-heavyweight gold medal in the 1976 Montreal Games older brother Michael won the middleweight gold. A former US Marine, raised in the poorer section of St. Perhaps success came too soon for Spinks. Spinks never fully recaptured the sort of driving intensity that took him to victory over Ali in their first meeting. In a lacklustre showing, he lost the title to Ali in their rematch at the Superdome in New Orleans seven months later. Spinks reached the heights when he defeated Ali at the Las Vegas Hilton in February 1978.
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