Cory Spinks: A Victim Forgotten

[crold1]

77: I completely agree that he's boring as hell and made that point. Cory 'deserves' another shot but no one should want to watch it. I belive I wrote the fight was like 'watching mowed grass try to grow back.' It doesn't mean that at least one person should not give him credit for what should have been his victory (what he did) denied in a sea of reviews of what has been criticism of Taylor (what he didn't do).

[GunStar]

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.

Yes you're alone, most of the boxing press had it for Taylor, you have a few bitter Bitchnard fans agreeing with you.

I rarely agree with Lampley but he was 100% right, people like you should never watch or judge another fight.

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Yes you're alone, most of the boxing press had it for Taylor, you have a few bitter Bitchnard fans agreeing with you.

I rarely agree with Lampley but he was 100% right, people like you should never watch or judge another fight.

I heard a lot of media at ringside had Spinks up by 2, Taylor up by 2 or a draw. There were a lot of draw scores in newspapers. The fight was so boring that nobody cared which way they went in some rounds.

[the330ballers]

well i didnt watch the fight but i heard spinks ran the whole night.
and according to compubox spinks threw more landed less...

Spinks landing just 85 of 542 punches, or 16 percent, while Taylor, picking his spots, landed 101 of 319 for 32 percent.

so.. how did he win?

[Randall_Hopkirk]

'Spinks was robbed' - Utter tosh. Granted Taylor's output between rounds 5-11 was low, but he still landed more than Spinks. As for 117-111, that was more questionable than the 115-113 Eugena Williams scored for Holyfield in his first bout with Lewis. As JT said to Merchant after the fight, you can't win the MW crown by running, and that is what Spinks did. Manny Stewart was pissed at JT because of his refusal to maintain any pressure, the fact is, he didn't have to, Spinks certainly wasn't threatening him.

[GunStar]

I heard a lot of media at ringside had Spinks up by 2, Taylor up by 2 or a draw. There were a lot of draw scores in newspapers. The fight was so boring that nobody cared which way they went in some rounds.

I checked just about every article you can find about this fight, most had it for Taylor.

Yes boring fight for the casual fans, if I can watch many boring heavyweight fights, then I can watch any fight.

I hate when we all call this fight boring or that fight boring, this is boxing love it or hate it, not all fight can be like Chico/Castillo, I enjoy watching boring fights and I hate when the press and guys like Larry Merchant talks how boring a fight is, this only hurts boxing.

Most believe the fight between Hopkins/Wright will be boring, but I personally can't wait to see this fight, the day people get bored watching a boxing match then thats the day they should all go watch some figure skating and get a boner and stop telling everyone else how boring this fight or that fight is, boxing does not need these type of writers or fans. Screw them all!

[shawn_]

The fact remains, the fight was soooo bad, neither man deserved to win.

[EliteSoldier]

Should have been called a No Contest. Bring back the old days where they didn't take ****ty boring fights. They did that with the braddock fight.

[Easy-E]

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]

Another terrible, ignorant article from Cliff Rold.
Its a disgrace to this website that you post his articles on here.

[Easy-E]

I heard a lot of media at ringside had Spinks up by 2, Taylor up by 2 or a draw. There were a lot of draw scores in newspapers. The fight was so boring that nobody cared which way they went in some rounds.

where did you hear that?
Nearly all of press row had the fight for Taylor.