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

9:02 AM ET WBO welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford faces Egidijus Kavaliauskas in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing card Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. The fight will air live on ESPN at 9 p.m. ET, with undercard bouts on ESPN+ starting at 5:30 p.m. ET. On the co-main

8:18 AM ET Michael Conlan heard a bad rumour before the Rio Olympics that he was not going to be treated fairly: Conlan heard that he would be robbed. In Rio the rumours intensified. The secret movers and fixers in the Olympic boxing game all seemed to know what would happen, and inside the Irish

8:01 PM ET Just a few days after Top Rank announced that former middleweight world titlist Rob Brant would face former super middleweight world title challenger Habib “Wild Hurricane” Ahmed in the co-feature of its Jan. 11 ESPN card, Brant withdrew Monday because of torn biceps. With Brant out and the fight off, Top Rank

7:20 PM ET Steve KimESPN Anthony Joshua owns three of the four major heavyweight titles and isn’t ready to let any of them go. Joshua has mandatory defenses to fulfill for his IBF and WBO belts after evening up the score on Andy Ruiz this past weekend in Saudi Arabia. Currently the IBF mandatory challenger

3:19 PM ET Former welterweight and junior welterweight world titlist Danny Garcia will face Ivan Redkach in his ring return on Jan. 25 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, the arena announced Monday. The fight will headline a Showtime-televised card, although the network and Premier Boxing Champions don’t plan to put anything out on

11:45 AM ET Anthony Joshua was focused, disciplined and in supreme condition. In other words, he was everything Andy Ruiz Jr. was not. In regaining his three heavyweight world titles on Saturday by masterful one-sided decision, Joshua stamped what happened on June 1 in New York as nothing more than an off night, when Ruiz