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ISLAMABAD: British-Pakistani boxer Hamzah Sheeraz won his first WBO super-middleweight championship title on Sunday after defeating Germany’s Alem Begic in Egypt courtesy of a second-round stoppage win.
Oleksandr Usyk (25-0, 16 KOs) survived a scare against kickboxer Rico Verhoeven to score a controversial 11th round TKO and prevent what would have been a monumental upset in front of the pyramids of Giza, Egypt.
GIZA, Egypt, May 23 : Ukraine's unbeaten heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk stopped Dutch former kickboxer Rico Verhoeven with one second left in the penultimate round of a WBC title fight to avoid what could have been one of the greatest boxing upsets of all time.
GIZA, Egypt: Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk survived a scare to earn an 11th-round stoppage against Rico Verhoeven, a Dutch kickboxer who pushed the undefeated Ukrainian to his limits on Saturday. In a chaotic ending, the 39-year-old Usyk dropped the challenger late in the penultimate round, and the referee waved it off after Usyk pounced when Verhoeven beat the count shortly before the bell. “I thought it was an early stoppage but in the end it’s not up to me,” Verhoeven said moments later while still in the ring with the Pyramids of Giza in the background. Usyk (25-0, 16 KOs) holds the WBC, WBA and IBF belts. For the 37-year-old Verhoeven, it was just his second time fighting as a boxer. Cuban heavyweight stuns Olympic medalist Torrez On the undercard, US heavyweight Richard Torrez Jr.
Oleksandr Usyk survived a scare against kickboxer Rico Verhoeven to score a controversial 11th-round stoppage in Giza, Egypt, preventing what would have been a monumental upset.
PHOENIX — The president of the governing body of Iranian soccer said Saturday that the nation's World Cup training base has been moved to Mexico from the United States after getting approval from FIFA.
WASHINGTON: Iran will base their squad in the Mexican border city of Tijuana during this year’s World Cup after soccer’s world governing body FIFA approved a request to move the training camp from Arizona, the head of Iran’s football federation said on Saturday. “We will be based in the Tijuana camp, which is near the Pacific Ocean and on the border between Mexico and the United States,” Iran’s soccer federation President Mehdi Taj said in a video posted on its Telegram social media account. Taj added that the move would help avoid visa-related complications and that the squad would be able to travel directly to Mexico aboard Iran Air flights. FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Iran will play their first two Group G matches in Los Angeles, against New Zealand on June 15 and Belgium on June 21, before facing Egypt in Seattle on June 26. “The total distance between us and the venue of our games in Los Angeles is 55 minutes by flight,” Taj said, adding that Tijuana was closer to their match venues than the team’s previously planned camp in Arizona. Iran has faced uncertainty for months over travel and security arrangements for the World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico. Iranian officials said this month that their players and staff had yet to receive US visas less than a month before the start of the tournament. Taj said FIFA had been asked for guarantees over visas, security and the treatment of the Iranian delegation. The World Cup runs from June 11 to July 19.
CAIRO: The “Mexico vs The World” bout between Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez and French WBC super-middleweight world champion Christian Mbilli is set to take place in Riyadh on Sept. 12.