Boxing: Former heavyweight champ Spinks battling prostate cancer, says wife


  • Boxing
  • Friday, 03 Jan 2020

(Reuters) - Former heavyweight boxing champion Leon Spinks, who was hospitalised last month in a serious condition, is suffering from prostate cancer, his wife Brenda said on Thursday.

Spinks, 66, an Olympic Gold medallist in 1976 best known for a memorable upset victory over Muhammad Ali two years later in a world heavyweight title fight, was battling for his life in a Las Vegas hospital last month.

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