LOS ANGELES – It is with great sadness that Jesus Chavez and the Golden Boy Promotions family speaks on the passing of a courageous colleague and friend, former world lightweight champion Leavander ...

In June, sixteen years after turning professional, Leavander Johnson entered a ring in Italy to face Stefano Zoff for the vacant IBF lightweight title. This was not a unique occurrence for the ...

LAS VEGAS — Leavander Johnson had worked a long time for his big night, 16 years to be exact. But his first title defense turned tragic, leaving the veteran boxer in a fight that many with his kind of ...

Boxer Leavander Johnson died Thursday afternoon at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, five days after suffering a brain injury while defending his lightweight title against Jesus Chavez at ...

LAS VEGAS — Lightweight boxer Leavander Johnson made dramatic improvement Sunday, but remained in “guarded condition” at the University Medical Center trauma center after undergoing surgery Saturday ...

LAS VEGAS — Leavander Johnson, who collapsed in his dressing room after an IBF lightweight-title loss, underwent brain surgery and was listed in critical condition last night. Johnson’s promoter, Lou ...

LOS ANGELES — Boxer Leavander Johnson died yesterday at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, five days after suffering a brain injury while defending his International Boxing Federation ...

Boxer Leavander Johnson died Thursday from injuries sustained five days earlier in a lightweight title fight with Jesus Chavez. The 35-year-old died at University Medical Center, where he had been ...

Funeral services for former lightweight titleholder Leavander Johnson will be Saturday in his hometown of Atlantic City, N.J., promoter Lou DiBella said Tuesday. Johnson died last Thursday as the ...

ATLANTIC CITY — He died from head injuries sustained in the ring while trying to defend his IBF Lightweight title in 2005. But Leavander Johnson will be memorialized in the city where he grew up, ...

LAS VEGAS – Boxer Leavander Johnson, critically injured in the biggest fight of his life, died Thursday at a hospital where he was taken with bleeding on the brain. The 35-year-old’s kidneys had ...