Comments Thread For: Boxing Without Boxing: Michael Spinks vs. Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, 07/18/81

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By Cliff Rold - The story of the fabled United States class of 1976 at the Montreal Olympics usually begins with Ray Leonard. It can't be told without Michael Spinks. Between just those two teammates, glory was found and history made from welterweight to heavyweight. Spinks got to the world title dance a little later than Ray; he got there later in his own...
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[NORMNEALON]

Great read cliff . Iam loving this boxing without boxing series !!!

[Thuglife Nelo]

Cliff on fiyah!

[The D3vil]

Good shxt, Cliff.

The fact that Michael Spinks is so disrespected by people who want to disregard his loss to Mike Tyson is criminal.

He is one of the greatest light-heavys of all-time and had 3 really good wins at heavyweight before getting rolled.

[bulldognyc]

I imagine cliff wearing a derby, puffing on a bogie, ferociously punching away at a old typewriter like a seasoned contender would at a heavy bag. You guys know the bag I’m talking about. That old weathered everlast bag that’s been punched so many damn times that it’s been patched up with duct tape. Keep them coming cliff. #boxing #realwriter

[H.B.Viper]

That elbow to the eye by

The awkward Spinks changed the complexity fight.
Before that, it was anyone's fight.

[_Rexy_]

Good shxt, Cliff.

The fact that Michael Spinks is so disrespected by people who want to disregard his loss to Mike Tyson is criminal.

He is one of the greatest light-heavys of all-time and had 3 really good wins at heavyweight before getting rolled.

Exactly. And there wasn't a LHW champ to move up to HW and win a championship before or after that since Heavyweight moved from 175 to 190.


But yeah, everyone ****s on Spinks for losing to Mike Tyson.

[Dasmius Shinobi]

Keep them coming.

Excellent article and one of the best so far. This Series are getting good.