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 ...

*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 ...

Leon Spinks, who scored one of boxing’s greatest upsets when he defeated Muhammad Ali to capture the heavyweight championship in February 1978 but lost his crown in a rematch seven months later and ...

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 ...