The most difficult thing as a footballer is to know when you are no longer the player you once were, believes Wayne Rooney. The former striker spent 13 years at Manchester United after joining them from Everton for £27m in 2004. Rooney played 559 times for United, scoring 253 goals, and won five Premier League…
Leo Carlsson, Troy Terry and Chris Kreider had a goal and two assists apiece, and the Ducks eliminated Connor McDavid the two-time defending Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers with a 5-2 victory in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series Thursday night. Cutter Gauthier had a goal and an assist, Ryan Poehling scored the opening…
Joe Calzaghe believes there is no debate on who is the greatest boxer of all time. Calzaghe is often credited by many as being the greatest boxer the UK has ever produced, having the rare honour of retiring undefeated after winning all 46 of his professional fights. He spent over 10 years as WBO super-middleweight…
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is due to make his ring return on September 12 in Saudi Arabia, with the only official announcement so far branding it a world title fight but naming no opponent. Canelo lost all four super-middleweight world titles to Terence Crawford in September of last year. While Crawford retired and scattered the belts,…
David Benavidez steps up to the cruiserweight division in a daring challenge against unified champion, Gilberto Ramirez, on Saturday night. However, there is a different world champion that ‘The Mexican Monster’ is eyeing up, believing he can register a statement stoppage win. Having ruled and campaigned at super-middleweight for the vast majority of his career,…
They have not always gone their way, but Wrexham are no strangers to crunch moments. And given their astonishing track record of late, why change a winning formula? Following their gut-wrenching 5-4 National League play-off semi-final loss to Grimsby Town at the end of Parkinson’s first season in charge of Wrexham in 2022, the club…
A showdown between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury has been agreed, providing ‘AJ’ is victorious in his July comeback. However, promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren have provided different timelines for the long-awaited fight. Fury made his ring return at the beginning of the month, outpointing Russia’s Arslanbek Makhmudov in a first win since 2023,…
Junto Nakatani has assessed the lofty status of Naoya Inoue, who many consider to be a top two pound-for-pound star. The pair will square off at the Tokyo Dome on May 2, with Inoue making the seventh defence of his four major super-bantamweight titles. As a two-division undisputed champion, the 33-year-old sits alongside Oleksandr Usyk…
While the most memorable battles for Thomas Hearns may have come against his fellow members of the Four Kings, he says his best ever rival was someone else entirely. Hearns is one of the most popular fighters of all time, with his knockout power and action-infused style making him a big favourite of many boxing…
Canelo Alvarez‘s opponent for his return to the ring has been revealed. Canelo was last in action in September when he suffered an upset defeat to Terence Crawford at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, losing his undisputed super-middleweight crown in the process. Crawford retired shortly after the bout, meaning the world titles were fragmented,…