{"id":662499,"date":"2026-05-10T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662499\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:47:08","slug":"the-complex-humility-of-michael-spinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662499\/","title":{"rendered":"The complex humility of Michael Spinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cI believe so, because Michael got to confirm things. I write in the book, for full transparency, at this stage in life Michael isn&#8217;t a man of many words. I had to push him to talk, the way a trainer would with a fighter to get everything out of him. I said, \u2018Come on, Michael, you\u2019ve got to talk to me. I\u2019ve got to have something.\u2019 Then he would put a few sentences together. But personality-wise, he&#8217;s so laid back and he doesn&#8217;t have an ego. To him, boxing was a job that kept him busy. He appreciated people saying how great he was, but he didn&#8217;t have an ego to say, \u2018I&#8217;m the best. I&#8217;m this, or I&#8217;m that.\u2019 If you said, \u2018Michael, I think Roy Jones [would have been] too good for you,\u2019 he wouldn&#8217;t have cared. He just doesn&#8217;t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI believe so, because Michael got to confirm things. I write in the book, for full transparency, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,25989,94325,319944,319942,54815,319943,319945,319941,8199,85],"class_list":["post-662499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-dwight-muhammad-qawi","tag-gerry-cooney","tag-jack-hirsch","tag-leon-spinks","tag-marvin-hagler","tag-matthew-saad-muhammad","tag-michael-jinx-spinks","tag-michael-spinks","tag-mike-tyson","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}