{"id":579715,"date":"2026-05-12T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579715\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:27:17","slug":"the-complex-humility-of-michael-spinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579715\/","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":579716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,17338,198246,198244,198243,189266,17339,198245,17340,7879,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-579715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","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","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}