Leon Spinks was the first world champion in his family but not the last.
Spinks, who died at 67 on Friday, recorded one in one of the biggest upsets in boxing history by outpointed Muhammd Ali in his eighth professional fight to win two heavyweight titles in 1978.
Brother Michael Spinks won a light heavyweight belt in 1981 and the heavyweight championship in 1985. And Cory Spinks, Leon’s son, was a two-division titleholder.
In this episode of The Ak & Barak Show, DAZN commentators Akin Reyes and Barak Bess interview Cory Spinks about his father and his boxing family.
Here’s what he had to say.
The Ak & Barak Show is available on DAZN and Sirius XM Fight Nation, Channel 156.
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