Remembering those we lost in the sports world
Mar 20, 2021
2 minutes
LEON SPINKS
Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks, who defeated Muhammad Ali in a surprising upset in 1978, died Feb. 5 after battling cancer. He was 67.
Spinks was a three-peat winner in the amateur light heavyweight national championships and won the gold medal in the same
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