by Ted Sares Spinks vs. Coetzee (1979) … Outside a boxing ring, he [Coetzee] is a gentle man, a white man liked by his black countrymen. Blacks have spoken out on his behalf in the Transvaal Post because he has "denounced racialism…John Underwood (DOWN & OUT IN MONACO), June2, 1979 Leon Spinks was coming off a loss to Ali in their 1978 rematch in the Superdome in New … [Read more...]