Cory Spinks: A Victim Forgotten

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By Cliff Rold - Tommy Ryan…Mickey Walker…Sugar Ray Robinson...Carmen Basilio…Emile Griffith…Sugar Ray Leonard…Cory Spinks. One of these names seems out of place. In one important way it shouldn’t. The first six are the names of the men who legitimately won the World welterweight and World middleweight crowns in their careers. Last Saturday in Memphis, Cory Spinks (36-4, 11 KO) of St. Louis, Missouri was robbed of an earned victory that would have made him the seventh.

The support for Spinks cause has largely been a gulf of silence.

Judges Gale Van Hoy and Michael Pernick decided Saturday night that Jermain Taylor (27-0-1, 17 KO) of Little Rock, Arkansas has done enough to keep his World Middleweight title. They were wrong. Harold Lederman of HBO scored the fight 8 rounds to 4 for the champion, a scorecard only marginally better than his nod for Muhammad Ali over Ken Norton in their third go around. The only judge who got it right, **** Flaherty (117-11 for Spinks) received a Jim Lampley pom-pom special calling for his banishment from the kingdom.

My score matched Flaherty’s to the number (if not the round) and, having subjected myself to this bout twice more on tape since, I’m still at a loss to see how one comes up with a Taylor win. I’m sure Cory Spinks has watched the tape more times than that and I can’t imagine how he feels today. This was one of the worst scored fights in recent memory, but because a guy without much fan appeal got the shaft it’s being easily dismissed. Cory earned better than that. [details]

[EliteSoldier]

wtf is this ****?

[King Jaffe Joffer]

I agree he won but I had the score 116-112

[GattiFan]

Wow.

Im going to have to go ahead and dub this article just about the worst (and longest..make your point already) thing I've read.

Dont get me wrong...

I've watched that miserable excuse for a title defense twice now.

The real loser was boxing.

That being said.....

There is a HUGE difference between defensive boxing...

And running for your worthless life.

The whole world saw it. THAT is the real reason for the "gulf of silence"

That and everyone is asleep now having watched another Cory Spinks fight.

Please...Cory..you have mad skill. Take that skill down about 4 weight classes and slap some people around that actually might feel your punches.

Quit fighting guys that you feel the need to jab and sprint for 12 rounds making everyone want to kill themselves.

Your only a victim of putting on horrible, horrible fights.

Period.

[crold1]

Dude, he didn't run. He circled at mid-ring the whole fight. The guy who stood still all night was Taylor. Don't take my word for it...Steward repeatedly said "You can't wait thirty seconds bewteen punches."

[EliteSoldier]

Honestly, I didn't see this fight. Because it was so boring, I didn't even watch most of it. Was he really robbed?

[GunStar]

Don King probably send this writer Cliff Rold a $50 check so he can write this garbage.

I think all boxing sites should interview their writers face to face with 1000+ boxing questions before hiring them, most writers today really don't know the sport of boxing.

Most writers today are bunch of casual fans and haters, if I was hiring boxing writers they have to pass my test face to face to get a job, because passing a test through email is easy because you can find just about any answer on the internet.

[crold1]

I thought the decision was clear for Spinks and I'm not alone. There are a number of people in the press, including the RBR scoring at this site, that had the fight scored for Spinks.

[crold1]

And Gun, I can guarantee you DK never gave me a cent. Oh, and this is funny...I've had pieces here since coming on board alternately called 'best' and 'worst' people have read. As an opinion columnist, that's quite the compliment.

[77Ritchie77]

even if spinks clearly beat sugar ray robinson and he got robbed there too nobody would feel bad for him at all. he is the worst tv fighter i have EVER seen he makes floyd mayweather look like arturo gatti (in excitement).
I never want to see cory spinks run around the ring again.
Maybe we should listen to that drunk old larry merchant, and give fights to whoever comes to fight and tries to make it a fight, not a test of who can run away from the other guy faster.
cory spinks did not win the fight. to win the fight you have to land clean effective punches and be aggressive. all i saw was a little ***** puncher running for his life