Ali vs Spinks

15Sept78
friday night

Round 1.
Ali looks both serious and slow.
Spinks is the aggressor.
Round 2.
Ali is moving....better.
Spinks is wild.
Round 3.
Ali is missing a lot of punches.
Spinks is crazy.
Round 4.
        is Spinks round.
Round 5.
Cosell calls it a " flurry " of lefts and rights.
Round 6.
Ali is 36yrs old and it shows..... but he's still
                 The Louisville Lip
                   the draft-dodger
                     The Greatest
             not Cassius Clay anymore
                     the truth-teller
                       Muhammad
Round 7.
Ali is a boxer.
Leon Spinks uh-uh.
Round 8.
Ali is puttin' a whuppin' on Spinks ass now.
Round 9.
Ali is slowing down.....still winning.
Round 10.
Ali !
Round 11.
Battle fatigue.
Round 12.
Ali gets a second wind.
Round 13.
The Ali Shuffle.
Round 14.
Ali just can't Knock Him Out.
Round 15.
They go the distance.
Muhammad Ali wins a unanimous decision.
10-4-1
11-4
10-4-1

It's been over 30yrs since i watched that bout on
ABC-TV friday night fights.
There was a pencil and paper nearby so i
took notes.
Deb and i had rushed home from a funeral wake
on the northside.
A sad affair involving someone on her side of the family.
A 40ish guy with a family.
A lawyer.
They thought he was healthy.
He wasn't.
A heart-attack, maybe.
Who knew?
We paid our respects and got the hell out of there.
It wasn't right
and Ali was fighting Spinks on tv at 8pm.

15Sept79
friday night

They thought she was healthy.
She wasn't.