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During his amateur days, Spinks was much ballyhooed as "the Wild Bull of Camp LeJeune," where he was stationed when he won the All-Marine Corps light heavyweight championship in 1975. Fighting on the card that night was a flyweight by the name of Ronnie DiNicola, one of Spinks's teammates on the Camp LeJeune boxing team. DiNicola won the Marine Corps championship in his own weightclass, outpointing a certain Joe Rodriguez...
...ebullient native of Erie, Pa.,took up boxing when he was 16 years old, did a stint in the Marines after graduating from high school, and then enrolled at Harvard last year after winning the Marine Corps flyweight championship...
DiNicola made the team as a flyweight, which means he had to keep under the weight limitation of 112 pounds. He went through grueling workouts wearing a rubber suit and spent a lot of his free time in a sauna. "It was a tremendous ordeal," he said, "but that's the way it is in a mateur boxing today. Each class is filled with guys who are tremendously built for their weight category...
Although the K.O. was O.K. by DiNicola, his career peaked when he won the All-Marine Corps flyweight crown, outpointing Joe Rodriguez in 1975. The win made him eligible to represent the Marines at the AAU and Olympic boxing trials. He also ended up with a broken nose after getting in front of a Rodriguez haymaker...
...next big event was the Nationals, held at the Louisiana State Fairgrounds at Shreveport. He lost to J.D. Seales, who at that time was the fifth ranked flyweight in the nation. After sustaining his second straight loss, a disgruntled DiNicola decided to throw in the towel, and he quit the team to rejoin his unit...