Editing Leon Spinks (section)

==Personal life and health==
Spinks was born and raised in [[St. Louis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leon-Spinks|title=Leon Spinks &#124; American boxer|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|date=May 24, 2023 }}</ref>

Leon's son, [[Cory Spinks]], held the undisputed [[welterweight]] title, and was the [[International Boxing Federation|IBF]] [[junior middleweight]] champion twice.

In 1990, Leon's other son, Leon Calvin, was shot to death in [[East St. Louis]] as he was driving home from his girlfriend's house.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/23/sports/leon-spinks-s-son-is-fatally-shot.html?mcubz=1 |title=Leon Spinks's Son Is Fatally Shot |date=July 23, 1990 |website=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=August 21, 2017}}</ref> Calvin was an aspiring light heavyweight pro boxer with a record of 2–0, with the two pro bouts occurring only a month before he died.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/200712 |title=Leon Calvin |website=BoxRec |access-date=February 8, 2018}}</ref> Leon's grandson and Calvin's son, Leon Spinks III, is an aspiring light heavyweight southpaw boxer with a pro record of 11–3–1 with seven knockouts, his last outing being a six-round draw with Robbie Cannon in October 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://boxrec.com/pl/boxer/604752|title=Leon Spinks III |website=BoxRec |access-date=February 8, 2018}}</ref>

Spinks perceptibly slurred his words after his active boxing days, and was diagnosed in 2012 with shrinkage in his brain, which doctors said was likely caused by the accumulated punches that he took during his career. In 2011, Spinks and his wife Brenda moved to Las Vegas. Spinks was hospitalized twice in 2014 in a Las Vegas hospital for [[surgery]] due to abdominal problems, from which he recovered.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/boxing/2014/10/13/former-champion-leon-spinks-hospitalized/17206769/ |title=Former champion Leon Spinks hospitalized |work=USA Today |access-date=February 8, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

In 2019, it was revealed that Spinks was diagnosed with [[advanced prostate cancer]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.survivornet.com/articles/boxing-champ-leon-spinks-prostate-cancer-has-spread-what-are-the-treatment-options/ |title=Boxing Champ Leon Spinks' Prostate Cancer Has Spread – What Are the Treatment Options? |website=SurvivorNet}}</ref> He died at a hospital in [[Henderson, Nevada]] on February 5, 2021, at age 67.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/sports/leon-spinks-dead.html|title = Leon Spinks, Boxer Who Took Ali's Crown and Lost It, Dies at 67|work = [[The New York Times]]|date = February 6, 2021|access-date = February 6, 2021|last = Goldstein|first = Richard}}</ref>