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Former heavyweight boxing world champion Leon Spinks dead at 67 after cancer battle – Wide World of Sports
Former Olympic gold medallist and world champion
Former heavyweight boxing world champion Leon Spinks has died at age 67 after a cancer battle.
Spinks, who won Olympic gold at Montreal 1976 and beat Muhammad Ali for the world title in just his eighth pro fight, had battled prostate cancer and other forms of the illness.
Family and close friends were reportedly by his side as he passed, including his wife Brenda and his son Cory Spinks, himself a former world champion.
Leon Spinks in 1978. (Walt Disney Television via Getty)
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