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Spinks was stripped of the IBF heavyweight title in February of 1987 for refusing to fight Tony Tucker, the #1 IBF contender. Don King won the right to promote a Spinks-Tucker title fight with a purse bid of $711,000. In the case of a purse bid, the purse is divided 75 percent to 25 percent in favor of the champion. That would mean $533,250 for Spinks. Instead of fighting Tucker, Spinks fought Cooney for a guaranteed purse of $4 million. Cooney was guaranteed $2.5 million.
Spinks was still the lineal World Heavyweight Champion and his bout with Cooney was recognized as a world title fight by 18 states and The Ring Magazine.
Cooney had been out of the ring for 13 months and had fought just three times since losing to Larry Holmes in June of 1982.
Spinks was an 8 to 5 underdog.
Cooney was down twice in round five.
