Michael Spinks Michael Spinks Michael Spinks (born July 13, 1956) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1988. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the undisputed light heavyweight title from 1983 to 1985, and the lineal heavyweight title from 1985 to 1988. As an amateur he won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Nicknamed "Jinx", which spawned the nickname of his right hand, "The Spinks Jinx", Spinks is the brother of former world heavyweight champion Leon Spinks, and uncle of Cory Spinks, a former welterweight and light middleweight champion. After
Johanna Spinks Johanna Spinks Johanna Spinks is a British-born, Los Angeles-based oil portrait artist whose work hangs in many museums, galleries, and private collections. Spinks is primarily a portrait artist of heirloom, family, corporate, religious, and bridal portraits, but also a landscape and still life painter. Spinks' work has been featured in the "Epoch Times", New York Times, American Artist Magazine, along with TV appearances and radio broadcasts on L.A. TALK Live and OurVentura TV. Spinks moved from the UK to New York aged 22, and worked as a journalist and makeup artist before becoming a professional painter. In addition to her