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Leon Spinks crossed a personal Rubicon Wednesday night when he out-pummeled Muhammed Ali for the heavyweight title of the world. While inheriting the by now somewhat tarnished crown of the champ, the 23-year-old recent Olympian also took on the responsibility of defending his title from a passel...
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...
Spinks went on to display his fireworks at the Las Vegas Hilton the other night. DiNicola received his discharge, was accepted to Harvard, and now the Lowell House junior only fights an occasional bout at suburban clubs.
In June 1975 DiNicola found himself in the incongruous scenario of participating in a badminton tournament in the Camp LeJeune arena where the boxing team usually fought. Spinks happened to walk in just after having returned from boxing in the Pan-American games. That meeting between Spinks in his Everlast...
One can only wonder if Leon Spinks realizes how much his win has really done for his sport.