8:58 AM ET Former heavyweight world champion Leon Spinks, who was recently hospitalized in Las Vegas due to cancer and is in intensive care, has shown “small signs” of improvement. “Leon is currently in intensive care at a Las Vegas hospital receiving attentive medical care to suppress prostate cancer which he was diagnosed with earlier

5:16 PM ET Alicia Napoleon-Espinosa and Elin Cederroos will square off to unify their women’s super middleweight world titles on Jan. 10, organizers announced on Friday. The bout will take place at the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as the opener on a Showtime-televised tripleheader (9 p.m. ET) topped by the previously

9:09 AM ET Welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford puts his WBO belt on the line against Egidijus Kavaliauskas and Teofimo Lopez goes for his first world title against IBF lightweight titlist Richard Commey on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York (ESPN, 9 p.m. ET). At this point, the only question worth asking is:

8:49 AM ET NEW YORK — A pound-for-pound star defending his world title against a hungry, unbeaten foe, a second title bout in the co-feature involving one of boxing’s hottest young fighters in a match in which nobody seems to be able to pick a winner with strong conviction, and an opening fight that is

7:43 PM ET Middleweight world titleholder Demetrius Andrade will defend his title against Luke Keeler on Jan. 30 (DAZN) in the main event of a world title tripleheader Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced Thursday. The card, which also will include a much-discussed showdown between junior lightweight world titlist Tevin Farmer and Joseph Diaz Jr.

3:56 PM ET Former heavyweight world champion Leon Spinks is seriously ill with an undisclosed ailment and is hospitalized in Las Vegas. “Leon is currently hospitalized and in the care of an exceptional team of doctors,” Brenda Glur Spinks, the former fighter’s wife, told ESPN in a statement on Thursday. “We kindly request that privacy

9:42 AM ET Steve KimESPN Former two-time welterweight titleholder Shawn Porter is trying to understand why Top Rank promoter Bob Arum now considers him a potential fight option for Terence Crawford following previous comments that Porter wasn’t a very good boxer. “Within the last year, Bob has said I’m not a good boxer and has

1:03 AM ET Anthony Joshua won’t have much time to enjoy the heavyweight world title belts he reclaimed on Saturday in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, with a masterful near-shutout decision against Andy Ruiz Jr. to avenge the monumental upset seventh-round knockout Ruiz authored on June 1. Joshua regained three major belts and with those titles come

5:39 PM ET When it comes to welterweight world titlist Terence Crawford in recent years the conversation has often been about what really big fight can the pound-for-pound star get. But Crawford on Wednesday said his only focus is on mandatory challenger Egidijus “Mean Machine” Kavaliauskas, whom he will fight in the Top Rank Boxing