Larry Holmes vs. Leon Spinks, billed as A Tribute to Joe Louis, was a professional boxing match contested on June 12, 1981, for the WBC and The Ring heavyweight championship.

Promoter Don King had hoped to pit reigning WBC heavyweight champion Larry Holmes against former undisputed heavyweight shortly after Holmes’ lopsided victory over an aging Muhammad Ali, announcing his plans in a press conference in late November 1980.
The WBC, however, recognized Gerry Cooney as their top ranked contender and chose not to elevate Spinks in their rankings to replace Cooney, temporarily delaying the fight. With Holmes and Cooney unable to come to terms, Holmes was instead matched up against Trevor Berbick, with King stating he was still working on a Holmes–Spinks title fight as a follow-up for Holmes should he defeat Berbick.

After Holmes defeated Berbick on April 11, 1981, his defense against Spinks was set. Originally the fight was to take place in Caesars Palace in the Las Vegas Valley on May 22, where seven of Holmes’ ten title fights had taken place, however, the fight was moved back to June 12 and the venue switched to Detroit after it was reported that both fighters wanted more time to prepare. King decided to belatedly dedicate the fight to the memory of Joe Louis, the great former heavyweight champion from Detroit, whom had died two months earlier after attending the Holmes–Berbick fight, with the fight taking place in his namesake arena.

Holmes was a 4 to 1 favorite going into the bout.

This was the first heavyweight title bout in Detroit since November 1970, when Joe Frazier knocked out light heavyweight champion Bob Foster in the second round at the Cobo Arena.

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😡”No’ you’re gonna STOMP ON THEIR HEAD‼️”

Throwback to this absolute belter of an interview from ‘The Hayemaker’ David Haye.

Fresh off the announcement of the Derek Chisora fight – following the infamous brawl in Munich – Sky News’ Kay Burley quizzed the former world champion and tried to get him to apologise for his part in it.

Yeah, that wasn’t happening.🤣

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💨 Larry Holmes was ON SMOKE‼️ | #OnThisDay | 🆚 Leon Spinks 🥊

The ‘Easton Assassin’ was as fast with his tongue as he was with his shots 45 years ago today, decimating former world champion, Leon Spinks in just two rounds.

Following the fight, the WBC and RING champion was in no mood to deal with no.1 challenger, Gerry Cooney, as he declared. “If you bring him over here, I’m gonna SLAP HIS FACE‼️”

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🥊 Froch ICES Groves to settle the debate #OnThisDay in 2014.

The controversy surrounding the first bout set up a return to big stadium fights in the UK when boxing came back to Wembley to host Froch – Groves II in front of 80,000 spectators – Carl may have mentioned it a few times – a post-war record.

A close contest was settled in the 8th when the ‘Cobra’ flattened the challenger with an overhand right which put him out cold.

It was the Nottingham man’s last-ever punch thrown and he has since been inducted into the boxing hall-of-fame.

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🥊 Relive Tyson Fury’s EPIC Ring-Walk following a 32-month hiatus #OnThisDay in 2018 📆

The former WBA/WBO/IBF/IBO & RING heavyweight champion had ballooned in weight since dethroning Wladimir Klitschko, in Germany. Weighing 276 pounds, the ‘Gypsy King’ had lost 112 for the bout but was still considerably heavier than his last outing (247Ibs).

💻 You can watch the full fight on the SuckerPunch Boxing YouTube channel.

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