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By Thomas Gerbasi - Cory Spinks once told me that “If you understand boxing, you know that boxing is an art. If you just go in there to get punched on and then try to hit, it’s not really a skill because anyone can do that. The skill is to hit and not get hit.”
He was one hundred percent correct. But there are a lot of truths in this world that aren’t exactly pleasant to deal with: you have to pay taxes every year, vegetables are good for you, and that those boxers whose philosophy is to hit and not get hit often aren’t the most compelling to watch.
Spinks definitely fell into that category for a lot of years until a New York press conference in 2003 made me change my opinion of the St. Louis native forever. His opponent for a December 2003 bout, Ricardo Mayorga, was never known for his class or tact when it came to promoting a fight, but after Spinks spoke of dedicating the bout to his deceased mother, Mayorga crossed the line of tastefulness by a mile when he told the assembled media, “I’m going to send you and reunite you with your whole family that happens to be upstairs with the Lord Jesus Christ and I’ll stay down here with my family, which is alive and well.” [Click Here To Read More]
He was one hundred percent correct. But there are a lot of truths in this world that aren’t exactly pleasant to deal with: you have to pay taxes every year, vegetables are good for you, and that those boxers whose philosophy is to hit and not get hit often aren’t the most compelling to watch.
Spinks definitely fell into that category for a lot of years until a New York press conference in 2003 made me change my opinion of the St. Louis native forever. His opponent for a December 2003 bout, Ricardo Mayorga, was never known for his class or tact when it came to promoting a fight, but after Spinks spoke of dedicating the bout to his deceased mother, Mayorga crossed the line of tastefulness by a mile when he told the assembled media, “I’m going to send you and reunite you with your whole family that happens to be upstairs with the Lord Jesus Christ and I’ll stay down here with my family, which is alive and well.” [Click Here To Read More]
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