New owners of Newcastle United have sacked manager, Steve Bruce after their 3-2 loss to Tottenham on Sunday. Bruce’s departure from the club was expected after the Saudi Arabian-backed consortium, led by the Public Investment Fund, completed a £305m takeover of the club on October 7. The defeat left Newcastle in 19th position of the…
Deontay Wilder will have surgery for a broken hand he suffered in Tyson Fury’s defeat. Wilder was brutally knocked out by Tyson Fury in round 11 of their trilogy, which was his second consecutive defeat to the British boxer. It was claimed that the American boxer had broken his hand during the fight, and will now…
Tyson Fury retained his WBC heavyweight crown on Saturday with a spectacular 11th-round knockout of Deontay Wilder as their trilogy fight delivered a boxing classic. Wilder says Fury’s size was a problem for him to handle after he was rushed to the hospital. In brief remarks, he acknowledged he had struggled to deal with Fury’s…
British heavyweight boxer, Tyson Fury, has advised Anthony Joshua to retire from boxing if he loses his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. Recall that Joshua had recently lost his WBA, WBO, and IBF heavyweight titles to Ukrainian Usyk. Joshua activated his rematch clause with Usyk immediately after the comprehensive defeat. But Fury believes Joshua should resign…
English Premier League side, Watford has joined the world to celebrate Nigeria on her 61st Independence Day. The club sent a happy independence message to Nigerians via their social media platforms, this morning. “Happy Independence Day to all of our Nigerian Hornets!” the Hornets wrote on Twitter and Instagram. Watford is one of the European…
Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has named a 23-man squad for the team’s 2022 World Cup qualifiers against the Central Africa Republic. Nigeria already kicked off their campaign in the qualifiers on a brighter note with two winnings in their first two games and are currently the group C leaders with six points while the Central…
Deborah Quickpen, a 9-year old Nigerian girl from Bayelsa has emerged winner of a youth chess championship in Africa. The Nigerian youngest gold medallist emerged the winner of the just concluded U-10 Africa Youth Chess Championship in Ghana. The 9-year-old Bayelsa-born chess prodigy, amassed 8.0 points, to defeat Tunisia’s Hasnaoui Abrar in her 9th and…
Oleksandr Usyk has returned the IBO, WBA, IBF, and WBO world heavyweight title belts to Anthony Joshua after winning them off the British boxer on Saturday night. The Ukrainian visited Joshua in his changing room at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium shortly after the fight to give him back the belts after he had posed with…
Boxing promoter, Frank Warren, has warned Anthony Joshua not to fight Oleksander Usyk again. Usyk, on Saturday night, dethroned Joshua as the IBF, WBO, and IBO world heavyweight champion. Warren believes Joshua is “damaged goods” after his defeat, but believes a fight with Tyson Fury is still possible. Joshua has stated he will trigger his…
British boxing champion, Anthony Joshua has been defeated by Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk in a world boxing heavyweight champion fight in early hours of Sunday at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. Joshua is set to go to the hospital to check a suspected broken eye socket. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn, who made this announcement…