RIYADH: Frank Warren’s Queensberry fighters accomplished a 10-0 clean sweep over Matchroom’s boxers in a team boxing format in Riyadh on Sunday. Queensberry’s Daniel Dubois put on the performance of his career to stop Filip Hrgovic, after a nasty cut to the Croatian forced a stoppage. Dubois, who continues to progress up the boxing ladder,…
LONDON: Cricket’s culture of drinking alcohol is alienating British Muslims, whistleblower Azeem Rafiq said at a literature festival this week. Pakistan-born former off-spinner Rafiq, who first raised allegations of racism and bullying in September 2020 related to his two spells at Yorkshire County Cricket Club, was speaking at the Hay Festival on Thursday. He said…
RIYADH: The Saudi national football team gathered at their training camp in Riyadh on Thursday to begin preparations for the upcoming Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup and the 2027 Asian Cup.As the Green Falcons held their first training session on Thursday evening behind closed doors at Mahd Academy, members of the squad from…
RIYADH: Tyson Fury will seek revenge against Oleksandr Usyk on Dec. 21 in Riyadh for the heavyweight boxing title. Usyk defeated the British boxer on May 19 on points, becoming the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the 21st century.The chairman of the Saudi General Entertainment Authority Turki Alalshikh said: “The quality of the first fight…
DUBLIN: Bayer Leverkusen are two games from European soccer immortality.The new champion of Germany have two cup finals in four days — starting Wednesday in the Europa League against Atalanta — to complete a previously unthinkable unbeaten season in domestic and continental competition.On Saturday, Leverkusen will be heavily favored to win the German cup final…
Qatar hosted the inaugural edition of the renamed FIFA Arab Cup in 2021. FIFA has announced that Qatar will host three more editions of the Arab Cup, in 2025, 2029 and 2033. The announcement came during the FIFA Council meeting ahead of the 74th FIFA Congress in Thailand. “At the request of the Qatar Football Association,…
RIYADH: The Professional Fighters League begins the historic inaugural season of PFL MENA (Middle East and North Africa) on Saturday at the Green Halls in Riyadh, with bantamweight and featherweight fighters from the region going head to head. In the main event, Saudi Arabia’s Abdullah Al-Qahtani is now set to meet Jordan’s Yazeed Hasanain after…
Real Madrid turned to the same old story in the Champions League and even though Bayern Munich knew all of the words, they were powerless to stop the kings of Europe pulling off another improbable and yet inevitable comeback. Joselu’s late double fired the record 14-time winners into the Wembley final on June 1, just…
RIYADH: Al-Ittihad Football Club have been fined $37,000 (SR140,000) for misconduct by players and fans in its recent 2-1 defeat by Al-Hilal in the semi-final of the King’s Cup. A statement issued by the Saudi Arabian Football Federation’s disciplinary and ethics committee said Abderrazak Hamdallah and Saad Al-Mousa were each fined around $5,300 for not…
MCKINNEY: Matt Wallace was relegated to watching the Masters amid a self-described “terrible” season when he found himself pondering what makes some of the best golfers in the world so good. Asked if Scottie Scheffler was among the players he was watching, Wallace stumbled over his words just a bit. “Well, him, but, I mean,…
