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Leon Spinks' survivors include his wife, Brenda Glur Spinks, sons Daryl and Cory, brother Michael Spinks and other siblings, and grandson, Leon Spinks III, who also became a professional boxer. Another son, Leon Calvin, won two professional matches before he was shot to death in 1990 at the age of 19. One son, Cory, would become a welterweight champion. Spinks married three times, and was the father to three sons, all of whom became boxers. Spinks lost the money he had made as a boxer, and by 2005 he was living in Columbus, Neb., where he unloaded trucks and worked as a custodian at the YMCA to help make ends meet. Outside of the ring, much of his life became a struggle. He ended his career with a record of 26 victories, 17 defeats and three draws. Spinks' last fight came in 1995 - he lost in the eighth round to Fred Houpe. In June of that year he challenged Larry Holmes for the World Boxing Council heavyweight crown, but lost in the third round. By 1981, he had developed a reputation as a fighter who liked to train easy and party hard. Spinks' career in boxing never fully recovered. Sports Total Failure: How George Foreman's Losses Showed Him The Light By 1976 he was fighting for Team USA at the Montreal Olympics - where he won gold in the light heavyweight division. He took up boxing at a young age, and then dropped out of high school his junior year and joined the Marines, where he took part in their boxing program and famously lost his front teeth. Spinks rose to the title from a childhood in poverty. Spinks, with a dose of humility, said of the man he grew up idolizing, "He's still the greatest, I'm just the latest." "I recall thinking, 'That kid is a tough son of a bitch,' " Ali said after the fight. The judges awarded Spinks a victory by split decision. That, whatever price I had to pay, I was going to succeed at something."īy the end of the night, Ali was bruised and bloodied. I made up my mind that I was going to be somebody in this world. "My dad had gone around and told people I would never be anything," Spinks said. Spinks later recalled the moment in an interview with Sports Illustrated, saying it brought him back to a moment in his childhood when his father - who would often beat him - told him he would never amount to anything.
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