Boxing

Former world heavyweight champion Leon Spinks has died aged 67. The American achieved a famous upset win over Muhammad Ali in 1978, in just his eighth professional fight. He had suffered with health issues in his...

Khabib Nurmagomedov stormed out of the final media conference ahead of his lightweight title fight against Conor Tardy McGregor on Thursday, in response to the Irishman not turning up on time. McGregor turned up almost 25...

Australian boxer Taylah Robertson has secured the first medal of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games — nine days before her first bout. The 19-year-old from Queensland state’s Sunshine Coast is guaranteed at least a bronze in...

An India boxing team doctor was found by a Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Court to have breached the event’s “No Needle Policy” by failing to store syringes properly in the run-up to the quadrennial showpiece in...

World middleweight boxing king Gennady Golovkin accused rival Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of doping on Tuesday,rubbishing the Mexican fighter’s claims that he had failed a recent drugs test due to contaminated meat. In explosive comments to reporters...

News Hour Jake LaMotta, the brutish former boxing champion whose life of violence in and out of the ring was portrayed in the movie “Raging Bull,” died on Tuesday, according to one of his daughters. LaMotta,...

News Hour After months of hype and profanity Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor take their war of words into the ring on Saturday for a boxing mismatch that is poised to become the richest fight in...

News Hour: Chris Eubank Junior defended his International Boxing Organisation (IBO) world super-middleweight title with a unanimous points decision win over Arthur Abraham in London on Saturday. Eubank retained the belt he took in February with...

News Hour: Undefeated American Robert Easter retained his International Boxing Federation lightweight title Friday with a unanimous decision over Russian southpaw Denis Shafikov in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio. Easter improved to 20-0 by judges’ scores...

News Hour: Andre Berto is a former two-time welterweight champion who held the title for nearly three years starting in 2008. Yet in this what-have-you-done-for-me-lately world of boxing, he might be best remembered as the overmatched...