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Denver Hume makes an emotional announcement confirming he’s been forced to retire from professional football aged 28. The left back came through the youth ranks of Sunderland, before breaking into the first team, then departed after 84 appearances and three goals between 2017 and 2022. He then played 31 times for Portsmouth across two years, before a move to Grimsby in 2024, where he made 64 appearances, scoring once. His last club was Fleetwood, making 9 appearances in the 2025/26 season, out of action since October 2025 having suffered a bleed on the brain during a training session. Then manager…
Speed was not Carr’s only weapon in this hypothetical matchup. In the second round of his December 1994 title fight with Trinidad, he timed a quick right hand that dropped the dangerous champion. Trinidad recovered and stopped Carr in the eighth, but the knockdown showed Carr’s ability to identify an opening and punish an elite puncher ahead of the return fire. That straight right would be especially important against the southpaw Spence. Carr had the hand speed to fire between Spence’s deliberate advances, then follow with combinations that prevented Spence from establishing his body attack. Crawford used different footwork and…
LOS ANGELES – It’s a forever badge that Ramon Cardenas carries: He once knocked down the generational great and pound-for-pound king Naoya Inoue. As rare as the feat is, Cardenas wants more than that – be it another shot at Inoue, a 122lbs belt, just something beyond the defining snapshot. The quest continues Saturday night on the main card of ProBoxTV’s show at USC’s Galen Center here as WBC/WBA No. 2-ranked Cardenas, 27-2 (15 KOs), meets Colombia’s Leonardo Carrillo, 20-1-1 (9 KOs). “I think we’ll take care of him. I hope relatively early,” Cardenas told BoxingScene when reminded Carrillo’s lone…
A few metres from the Wagener Stadion, where the Hockey World Cup is in full swing, along the trail of the Amsterdam Bos (Forest), a bunch of cricketers are sweating it out in the nets. Among them, it’s hard to miss the presence of Matthew Hayden, the former Australian opener, who is having a close look from the top of the bowling mark.Hayden is the part-owner of the Glasgow Cosmic franchise in the newly-launched European T20 Premier League. He is also fulfilling a dual role of a head coach for a side packed with international names, including Lungi Ngidi, Liam…
Keith Andrews insisted there are “fine margins” between who plays and who doesn’t for Brentford after watching his team cruise into the third round of the EFL Cup on Tuesday. Andrews watched on as his team built on their opening day victory against Tottenham with a 6-1 thrashing of Championship side Birmingham City at St. Andrew’s. Callum Wilson opened the scoring in the sixth minute with a fine finish into the bottom-right corner before Demarai Gray’s 23rd-minute strike from distance levelled things up. But two goals in five minutes at the end of the first half by Aaron Hickey and Nathan Collins put Brentford in…
Moses Itauma says Filip Hrgovic’s comments are starting to “wind him up” before their IBF heavyweight world title fight on Saturday.A victory at the O2 Arena would mean 21-year-old Itauma becomes the second youngest heavyweight world champion in history, behind only Mike Tyson.The British fighter is the favouite going into the contest, but Hrgovic has been trying to taunt his rival by calling him a “kid” and “inexperienced”.”I tell myself there’s nothing that this Hrgovic guy can do to get in my head but he’s starting to wind me up,” Itauma said. “In an interview earlier, apparently he said I…
“You not it the higher ups don’t care to see me whoop you #Facts,” Hitchins posted on X. “It would be bullying lil ni**a only thing that’s gone beat you up is ya ballz I’ll spank you from 1 to 12 bum.” The contradiction could not be more obvious. If Norman truly offers zero resistance, Hitchins should jump at the chance to fight him. Dominating a recognizable name would solidify his status at welterweight, generate valuable highlight reels, plus give instant credibility to his claim that he belongs among the elite. Instead, Hitchins dismisses Norman as unworthy while refusing to…
(ProBoxTV) LOS ANGELES – Juan Carrillo is an unbeaten power puncher just like his Saturday night ProBoxTV co-main event opponent Najee Lopez, but at 33, the Colombian has far less room to fall short. “He realizes this is his moment – knows that Lopez is a ProBox fighter, understands he’s the underdog – and he’s going to do everything he can to win the fight,” Carrillo trainer Bob Santos told BoxingScene. With Lopez, 16-0 (13 KOs), returning from a fight-of-the-year candidacy in his March eighth-round TKO of Mexico’s Manuel Gallegos, he’s looking to again entertain in the expected brawl with…
If you’re a winger and you fancy a move away, please notify Arsenal. For the Gunners, their pursuit of first-team improvements has not been easy this summer. Rejected by Vinicius Junior, it has been an uphill battle to secure their number one targets. The state of the transfer market has not helped, either. One of their primary targets coming into the window was Morgan Rogers but Chelsea gazumped the Gunners by agreeing to pay a whopping £117m fee. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez It’s a deal that has had an impact on the rest of the market. As a consequence, PSG have been…
Charly Suarez has received a rotten deal from the WBO. The mandatory challenger has already waited more than a year for a rematch opportunity against Emanuel Navarrete, yet the sanctioning body has now allowed the champion to face O’Shaquie Foster first. “Please be advised that the WBO World Championship Committee has unanimously approved an exception allowing WBO Jr. Lightweight Champion Emanuel Navarrete to pursue the WBO/IBF/WBC Unification Championship against O’Shaquie Foster prior to discharging his mandatory obligation. “As a condition of this approval, the winner must next face the WBO Mandatory Challenger within 180 days following the Unification Championship Contest,”…