Me and my son met him today. Very down to earth guy. My son is only a kid and sometimes they don't think before speaking, but he asked why did he lose so quickly to Tyson. Spinks smiled and told him that his mind thought he could take Tysons punches, but his body was telling him the exact opposite. He told him he tried the best he could to hang in there and if his body would have held up longer he would have given him a tough fight.
Now again, my son is only a kid, but unfortunately it seems that when a lot of people think of Spinks, they only think about the Tyson fight.
How damaging is the Tyson loss to his career/legacy?
Spinks was a flash in the pan and I don't think of him as an all time great anyways so the Tyson loss doesn't do much for me. Now.......had he won, it would have been a very, very big deal.
Much more damaging than it should have been. Spinks was a great light heavyweight but never a real heavyweight. It's no disgrace for a fat light heavyweight to get blasted out early by the prime Tyson. Spinks should but judged as an excellent light heavyweight who never lost at 175.
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