We-Wi Wells, Sherry, 9th Wade, Monette, 9th Whatley, Gus, 9th Wheeler, Connie, 9th White, Alvin, 10th White, Bruce, 1Oth White, Cookie, 9th White, Jacqueline, 10th Whitehead, Danny, 10th Whitehouse, Donna, 11th Whitfield, Carla, 1Oth Whitfield, Flandy, 9th wrmiey, Mark, tom whitney, Paul, tom Whitten, Renee, 9th Wiechmann, Terry, 11th Wiles, Fiandall, 10th Wilkerson, Karen, 11th Wilkinson, Robert, 11th Wilkinson, Sheila, 10th Willems, Chuck, 9th Williams, Charl, 11th Dean, 11th Donna, 10th Williams, Williams, Williams, Jeff, 10th Williams, Jerri, 9th Williams, John, 11th Williams, LaBrenda, 11th 154 underclassmen Spinks dethrones Ali 'The Greatest' suffers 3rd loss Judge Lew Tabot scores it 145-140, the new heavy- weight champion of the world, Leon Spinks. After one of the greatest fights of all time, Leon Spinks had defeated Muhhammad Ali, maybe the greatest boxer of all time. Ali, a 36-year old veteran of 58 fights had suffered only his third loss. Many think that it was the end of a dynasty, the end of one of the top careers that an athlete can have. But Ali says that he will come back and win the champion- ship for the third time. When you lose and the chips are down, you shouldn't quit. You should come back and try harder, said Ali after the fight. Spinks had come into the fight much the same way that Cassius Clay CMuhammad AID had in his first title bout against Sonny Liston, in February of 1964. Before his fight Spinks watched his brother fight just as Clay did. The odds were 8-1 in favor of Ali in this fight just as they were against him in the Liston fight. And both Clay and Spinks also were Olympic champions. Q Before the fight Ali didn't make his usual arrogant remarks. When asked if he would win the fight he stated that he would do his best and that the odds were in his favor. Ali weighed in at 22410 pounds, 12 pounds heavier than when he knocked out George Foreman to regain the title in October of 1974. Spinks weighed in at 197M1. As both fighters came out for the first round it was clear that Spinks was not the same fighter that everyo had seen in the 1976 Olympics. In the games he relied his powerful punching. When commentating his figl Howard Cosell repeatedly announced that Spinks had boxing skills and that he would be lucky to win agair more experienced boxers. But after only seven profi sional fights Spinks wasn't just a fighter anymore. He vi a boxer in every sense of the word. He ducked down low during brief exchanges in t early rounds making himself hard to hit. He came at with lightning quick jabs and hooks. Ali did his regu antics doing his dancing and his rope-a-dope. The rope dope didn't confuse Spinks, though. Unlike many boxi who had faced Ali before, Spinks used his full punchi force when Ali was on the ropes through Ali's uprig arms and snapped the champ's head back with pierci upper cuts. The surprise of the fight came in the fourth round wh Spinks landed several blows to Ali on the ropes. After 1 skirmish Ali, doing his regular clowning opened l mouth wide and made a face to the crowd just to sh them that he was all right. But when he opened his moi the world saw something that they had never seen on b9fOl'S. Blood! fcont. on pg. 1579 ft Y U
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