Editing Michael Spinks (section)

==Amateur career==
Spinks won the 1974 156-pound [[Golden Gloves]] Light Middleweight Championship by defeating Wilber Cameron in [[Denver, Colorado]], and then took the silver medal in the [[National AAU]] 165-pound Championship Competition in 1975, losing in three rounds to Tom Sullivan in [[Shreveport, Louisiana]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2013}} He rebounded to take the 1976 [[National Golden Gloves]] Middleweight championship with a three-round victory over Lamont Kirkland in [[Miami, Florida]], and that same year captured the United States Olympic Trials Middleweight Championship by defeating Keith Broom in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]]. At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Spinks benefited from a favorable draw. Due to a bye and two wins by walkover, he was only required to box two opponents to win the gold medal in the middleweight division. He went on to defeat the [[Soviet Union]]'s [[Rufat Riskiyev]] in the final.<ref>[https://newspaperarchive.com/walla-walla-union-bulletin-aug-01-1976-p-17/ U.S. boxers reap five Olympic gold medals] (AP), ''Walla Walla Union Bulletin'', August 1, 1976, p. 17.</ref>

===Highlights===
*Compiled an amateur record of (93-7)<ref name=BoxRec/>
*Won the 1974 Light Middleweight (156&nbsp;lb.) National Golden Gloves Championship.
*Made it to the finals of the 1975 National AAU, losing to [[Tommy Brooks]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=TOMMY BROOKS – New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame|url=http://www.njboxinghof.org/tommy-brooks/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-23}}</ref>
*Won the 1976 Middleweight (165&nbsp;lb.) National Golden Gloves Championship in Miami, Florida.
*Won the Middleweight Gold Medal for the United States at the 1976 [[Olympic Games]] in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

===Olympic results===
{{gold medal}} at the XXI Summer Olympics (165 lbs), [[Montreal, Canada]], July 1976:
* Round of 32: bye
* Round of 16: Defeated Jean-Marie Emebe (Cameroon) by walkover
* Quarterfinal: Defeated [[Ryszard Pasiewicz]] (Poland) by unanimous decision, 5–0
* Semifinal: Defeated [[Alec Năstac]] (Romania) by walkover
* Final: Defeated [[Rufat Riskiyev]] (Soviet Union) RSC 3 {{small|(Riskiyev knocked down in the 1st rd, referee stopped the fight at 1:54)}}

Spinks finished his amateur career with a record of 93 wins (35 knockouts,) 7 losses.<ref name=BoxRec>BoxRec, [http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Michael_Spinks Michael Spinks]</ref>