Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spinks was inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in 2017 Leon Spinks — former undisputed heavyweight boxing champ who ...

Leon Spinks, who shocked the boxing world with his 1978 defeat of Muhammad Ali to claim the heavyweight championship, died Friday in Henderson, Nev. He was 67. His death was announced by the public ...

SAINT LOUIS, Mo. — Leon Spinks, the St. Louis native who went from growing up in the Pruitt Igoe housing project to defeating the legendary Muhammad Ali at the Hilton in Las Vegas for the world ...

*We’ve just learned that legendary boxer Leon Spinks is in a Las Vegas hospital literally fighting for his life. The situation is apparently dire as his wife is asking for prayers. For our younger ...

*In the end, it was an opponent he couldn’t beat. Leon Spinks, the former undisputed heavyweight boxing champ has succumbed to cancer after a 5-year battle. Spinks passed away Friday evening at the ...

After 18 years in the ring, boxer Leon Spinks is fighting for his life. Spinks was reportedly hospitalized for emergency abdominal surgery at a Las Vegas medical facility, and is in critical his ...

Leon Spinks — former undisputed heavyweight boxing champ who defeated Muhammad Ali in 1978 — has died after a lengthy battle with cancer. According to TMZ, Spinks passed away Friday evening at the age ...

SAINT LOUIS, Mo. — Leon Spinks, the St. Louis native who went from growing up in the Pruitt Igoe housing project to defeating the legendary Muhammad Ali at the Hilton in Las Vegas for the world ...

Leon Spinks, who shocked the boxing world with his 1978 defeat of Muhammad Ali to claim the heavyweight championship, died Friday in Henderson, Nev. He was 67. His death was announced by the public ...

Leon Spinks, the heavyweight boxer who became undisputed world champion by upsetting Muhammad Ali in 1978 before losing a rematch only months later, has died. He was 67. Spinks died on Friday, and had ...