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One of AEW’s cornerstone stables, The Dark Order, remains All Elite. As confirmed by Fightful Select, Evil Uno, John Silver, and Alex Reynolds have all re-signed with the company. This comes after the renewal of their 2023 deals. The length of these new contracts was not confirmed, as of this writing. Though these contracts solidify their in-ring statuses, for Uno, his carries an added bonus, as this new contract will allow him to work as a coach behind the scenes for AEW and its sister promotion, ROH. The last time this trio was featured…
Marc Guehi has won his fitness race and is expected to start England’s World Cup quarter-final against Norway alongside a recalled John Stones in central defence.Manchester City defender Guehi suffered a minor hamstring strain in the win over Mexico and has missed training sessions this week.But he is set to be cleared to continue in the heart of England’s defence.He is expected to be playing alongside Stones in defence, who is set to be recalled into the starting XI for the first time since the opening game against Croatia.Ezri Konsa is set to be moved from centre-back to right-back.Declan Rice…
As one of her worst nightmares on a tennis court appeared to be unfolding before her disbelieving eyes, Linda Noskova walked solemnly to her chair with both index fingers plugged into her ears. She was attempting to block out the roars of a booming Centre Court crowd, which had erupted in jubilation at her failure to convert no fewer than six match points. But the 21-year-old knew deep down that what she truly needed to block out were her own fatalistic thoughts.Noskova’s hopes of capturing her first Wimbledon title were in freefall by that point. She had lost five consecutive…
Blake Monroe has been attacking people, hijacking backstage segments and making her presence felt on SmackDown—but she still has not wrestled a single match since leaving NXT. Now she is messing with fans over it. Monroe responded to a fan on Twitter who told her they wanted to see her wrestle. Instead of giving them a straight answer, she turned it around and questioned whether they had earned the privilege. “Do you deserve to see me wrestling?” The response fits Monroe’s current SmackDown character perfectly. WWE has kept her involved in storyline angles since her call-up, but the company has…
After defeat by South Africa last weekend, England emerged with impetus and intent, apparently determined to chance their arm.Fin Smith had already attempted a crossfield kick to Northampton team-mate Tommy Freeman from an early penalty, only to be called back by referee Hollie Davidson for going too quickly.Fortune favoured the England fly-half’s brave play a few minutes later.Once again Smith aimed a punt at Freeman. It bounced over the wing’s head and seemed to be heading for touch, only to bounce off the corner flag and back in-field to allow Marcus Smith to pounce for the opening try.Last weekend, South…
Former Chelsea and Leeds United owner Ken Bates has died at the age of 94.Chelsea announced the death of Bates on Saturday, saying he had “passed away peacefully in Monaco this morning surrounded by his wife and family”.Bates bought Chelsea for £1 in 1982 when they were in the old Second Division, taking on debts of £1.5m, and set about turning around their fortunes.He eventually sold the club to Roman Abramovich in 2003 in a deal worth £140m when they were in the English top flight.The Stamford Bridge club were heavily in debt when Bates sold his shares. He stayed…
The current WWE Women’s Champion, Rhea Ripley, has been out of action since Clash in Italy. All we have been told up to this point is that she has a knee injury. This changed plans for Night of Champions and may very well have taken her out of the upcoming annual SummerSlam event. While speaking at Power Slap, Ripley confirmed her injury is a meniscus tear: “I hurt my knee. I got a slight tear in my meniscus. It’s just healing. It’s getting there. It’s getting stronger. I just can’t bend it very well. It’s gotta bend, guys,” she said…
An exhausted Arthur Fery said he was looking forward to a belated holiday after his fairytale run at Wimbledon came to an end on Friday at the hands of Alexander Zverev.The 23-year-old lost 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 to the No 2 seed, having put his holiday plans on hold due to his unlikely run to the semi-finals, the best performance by a wildcard since Goran Ivanisevic won the title in 2001.“I was meant to be coming back from holiday today,” he said. “Was meant to be going to Greece with some friends. We’ll see if that’s still in the cards.…
British pair Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid have won their seventh Wimbledon men’s wheelchair doubles title as a partnership, fighting back from a set down on Court One to beat Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez and Japan’s Tokito Oda 2-6 6-1 6-2.Fernandez and Oda broke Hewett and Reid in all four of their service games during the first set, but the Britons responded superbly by winning nine of the next 10 games.That run gave Hewett and Reid a 3-0 lead in the deciding set and they saw out victory in a high-quality final to clinch their 25th Grand Slam doubles title as…
Well, we were beginning to run out of ferry puns anyway. Arthur Fery’s run to the semi-finals of Wimbledon always had a kind of glazed and surreal quality to it, a shaggy-dog story that kept adding more and more unbelievable layers: the fling that ended in marriage, the picnic that turned into an all-night rave, Super Hans accidentally running to Windsor.When reality finally bit, it bit slowly and then all at once. It was when Sascha Zverev broke serve early in the second set that people first started to leave their seats: not many, but certainly enough to notice. Perhaps…