Cory Spinks overcame a first-round knockdown to outpoint Deandre Latimore on Friday night and win the vacant IBF junior middleweight title. Spinks (37-5) overcame a cut above his left eye to win the hard-fought split decision between two St. Louis natives. Two judges split their scorecards 115-112, while the third ...

Cory Spinks survived an early knockdown and captured the vacant International Boxing Federation junior middleweight world title here Friday with a 12-round split decision over Deandre Latimore. Spinks, 31 and a former four-time world champion, was coming off two defeats in his last two bouts. But he did enough to get the nod from two judges, 115-112 and 114-113, while ...

US hometown rivals Cory Spinks and Deandre Latimore meet here Friday in a showdown of St. Louis southpaws for the vacant International Boxing Federation junior middleweight title. Spinks, 36-5 with 11 knockouts, comes off two losses, dropping split decisions to fellow Americans Jermain Taylor in a 2007 middleweight title bout and Verno Phillips in 2008 for the title he vacated ...