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| An amateur world titlist, an Olympic gold medalist, and then the heavyweight champion of the world after only eight professional fights. To say that Leon Spinks had a dizzying rise to the top is to understate the case considerably. His fall, however, was equally dramatic. Between his shocking upset of Muhammad Ali in February of 1978 and the rematch seven months later, Leon unremorsefully lived the good life. He was arrested often, usually for drugs, once for possessing just five dollars worth of cocaine (Richard Pryor – “have you ever seen five dollars worth of cocaine? five dollars worth of cocaine blows away when you open up the paper…”). After losing the Ali rematch, his moment in the sun was over, but what a moment it was. This Spinks t-shirt we offer is the same shirt that he wore in preparation for the second Ali fight, traveling down that precipitous road of excess that in Leon’s case led from unimaginable heights to no palace indeed. | ||
