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Naoya Inoue suffers first knockdown of his career – then delivers knockout victory

Naoya Inoue suffers first knockdown of his career – then delivers knockout victory

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Naoya Inoue, the undisputed world super-bantamweight champion, recovered from the first knockdown of his professional career to stop Luis Nery in devastating fashion. The 31-year-old Japanese, who has held world titles at four different weights and two undisputed, went down in the first round, but picked himself up to secure a sixth-round victory after putting his Mexican opponent down for the third time with a brutal right hand. Nery stunned both the champion and a 55,000 sell-out crowd at the Tokyo Dome in Japan – where Buster Douglas shocked Mike Tyson in 1990 – when barely two minutes into the fight he floored Inoue with a swinging left hook. However, Nery had to pick himself up from the canvas in the second after the Japanese fighter caught him with a short left. Inoue scored heavily with the straight right in an impressive third-round display and began to showboat in the fourth as a frustrated Nery repeatedly missed the target with his big punches and was peppered with his opponent’s jab and body shots. The 29-year-old’s work …

Knockout success of Yolo – the feelgood female boxing movie from China | China

Knockout success of Yolo – the feelgood female boxing movie from China | China

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In a country where cinemas are normally dominated by wolf warrior blockbusters or nationalist historical epics, the surprise hit of China’s box office in 2024 is a feelgood comedy about a woman who transforms her lacklustre life – and herself – through boxing. Released for the lunar new year holiday on 10 February, Yolo (You Only Live Once) has become the highest grossing film of the year in China, earning more than 3.4bn yuan (£375m) in less than two months, according to the China Movie Information Network. Globally, it is second only to Dune 2. Critics and cinemagoers are divided about whether the film, a lighthearted comedy which has drawn comparisons with Rocky, is feminist or not. It is directed by and stars Jia Ling, a well-known comedian, who reportedly lost 50kg for the role in order to perform the physical as well as mental transformation of the main character, Du Leying, sparking a debate about body image. In February, Jia wrote on Weibo: “It’s not a diet movie, it’s not even about boxing”. But …

BYD says EVs enter the ‘knockout round’ with new tech launching

BYD says EVs enter the ‘knockout round’ with new tech launching

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Global EV leader BYD believes new energy vehicles, including EVs and PHEVs, have entered the “knockout round” with gas-powered cars. BYD plans to more than double its overseas sales this year, as it aims for one million in 2025. Let the “liberation battle” begin After declaring a “liberation battle” against gas-powered cars earlier this year, BYD, or Build Your Dreams, is putting pressure on overseas rivals. During an investor meeting on Wednesday, BYD’s CEO, Wang Chaunfu, said it will launch its next-gen hybrid tech offering over 1,200 miles (2,000 km) range. We reported earlier this month that BYD looks to crush gas-powered car sales with its newest platform. Most BYD vehicles are based on its e-Platform 3.0, an advanced 8-in-1 electric powertrain with integrated Blade batteries. By building nearly all vehicle components, including batteries, in-house, BYD has a major advantage over rivals. BYD can offer low-cost EVs, like the new Seagull, starting under $10,000 (69,800 yuan) and still make a profit. Its next-gen DM-i system will enable an even more range at a lower cost. …

Return Of The ‘Knockout Game’? Women Punched By “Strangers” In New York City

Return Of The ‘Knockout Game’? Women Punched By “Strangers” In New York City

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Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, The New York Post is speculating that the infamous ‘knockout game’ could have made a return after numerous women reported being punched in the head by “strangers” in New York City. Over the course of the last two weeks, multiple women have released viral TikTok videos explaining how they were taken by surprise and assaulted on the street. “You guys, I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face,” Halley Kate, an influencer who has 1.1 million followers on TikTok told her fans. “Oh my God, it was so bad, I can’t even talk,” she added. Mikayla Toninato told a similar story of how she “just got punched in the face, walking home.” “I was literally like leaving class, I turned the corner and I was looking down and I was looking at my phone, and like texting, and then, out of nowhere, this man just came up and hit me in the face,” she said. Another woman named Oliva Brand …

Mike Tyson hopes to deliver knockout blow with cannabis edible ears – in a nod to his most notorious fight | US News

Mike Tyson hopes to deliver knockout blow with cannabis edible ears – in a nod to his most notorious fight | US News

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Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is hoping to deliver a knockout blow with his new cannabis product – edibles in the shape of nibbled ears. The bizarre products are a nod to when Tyson infamously bit off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield in their WBA Heavyweight Championship bout in Nevada in 1997. The edibles have been released by Tyson 2.0 – a cannabis company founded by the iconic boxer known as “Iron Mike”. They come in flavours including black eye berry, sour apple punch and watermelon. Image: Mike Tyson bites the ear of Evander Holyfield during the third round of their Nevada fight. Pic: Reuters The edibles are available from the company’s online store, but have already been spotted in dispensaries in New York. The 57-year-old is reportedly planning a promotional tour at shops next month, including an event in Times Square. Not everyone in the cannabis industry is said to be enthused about the release of Tyson’s product. The former boxer was convicted of rape in 1992 and …

Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Knockout Oscars Speech

Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Knockout Oscars Speech

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The Holdovers star was grateful to win an Academy Award—and hopeful that it won’t be her last opportunity. PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP / Getty March 10, 2024, 9:52 PM ET You know you’ve delivered an Oscars speech for the history books when your fellow nominees are getting teary. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who won the Best Supporting Actress trophy tonight for her work in The Holdovers, spoke about her career with such earnest passion that she received no shortage of weepy faces from her competitors: Jodie Foster could be seen welling up, as could America Ferrera. Randolph thanked her mother, her acting teacher, and even her publicist—a funny role reversal. But as she directed her appreciation toward specific people in her life, her speech also acknowledged the rarity of an ascendance like hers—to win an Oscar after wondering if there was no future in acting for her, as a curvy Black actress. “For so long, I’ve always wanted to be different,” Randolph said. “And now I realize I just need to be myself, and I …

Dana White reacts to Francis Ngannou’s brutal knockout loss to Anthony Joshua

Dana White reacts to Francis Ngannou’s brutal knockout loss to Anthony Joshua

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UFC president Dana White has weighed in on Francis Ngannou’s boxing match with Anthony Joshua, after the Cameroonian was brutally knocked out on Friday. Ngannou left the UFC over a contract dispute in early 2023, and he made his boxing debut against Tyson Fury in October. The 37-year-old dropped Fury and lost a controversial decision, but he did not come close to replicating that performance on Friday (8 March). Ngannou was dropped three times by Joshua in two rounds, with the final knockdown leaving the ex-UFC heavyweight champion out cold on the canvas in Saudi Arabia. White, whose relationship with Ngannou soured upon the latter’s UFC exit, addressed the result at the UFC 299 post-fight press conference on Saturday. “I did not [see it]. I mean, I saw it on social media,” said White in Miami. “Going into the [Tyson] Fury fight… If Fury trained for the fight and didn’t show up and look like he ate Tyson Fury, that’s probably the way that fight would’ve gone, too. “You know how I feel about the …

Joshua demolishes Ngannou with second-round knockout

Joshua demolishes Ngannou with second-round knockout

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RIYADH :Former heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua floored Francis Ngannou three times in two rounds at Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena on Saturday in a knockout win that put him right back in the reckoning for another title shot. The big Briton sent the 37-year-old Cameroon-born former UFC heavyweight champion, a two-fight professional boxing novice, to the canvas in the opening round with a straight right to the chin. The “Knockout Chaos” fight then lived up to its billing in spectacular fashion as Joshua sent him crashing again in the second, first with a right-left combination and then an explosive right after he had beaten the count. The referee stepped in and stopped the fight, with Joshua declared the winner by knockout victory and Ngannou out cold and receiving treatment before getting back, stunned, to his feet. Far more had been expected from Ngannou after he knocked down WBC champion Tyson Fury in his first bout in Riyadh in October and went on to lose on a split decision, but Joshua was merciless. “It is what it …

Punch of the century? Anthony Joshua stuns Francis Ngannou with sensational second-round knockout

Punch of the century? Anthony Joshua stuns Francis Ngannou with sensational second-round knockout

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Anthony Joshua takes the next step in a journey that he hopes will return him to the very peak of the heavyweight division this evening as he faces former UFC superstar Francis Ngannous in a 10-round bout in Riyadh.  His defeat of Otto Wallin in this same arena in December was the most convincing performance of Joshua’s career since he knocked out Kubrat Pulev in December 2020 and led many to wonder whether a tilt at a world title would soon be incoming.  Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have business to attend to first before that question can be answered and in the intervening period, Joshu has opted to face off against a dangerous opponent in Ngannou.  The one-time UFC heavyweight champion gave Fury all he could handle when the pair met in October last year, even sending the WBC heavyweight champion to the canvas before losing via a split decision.  That performance did plenty to underline Ngannou’s credentials as a boxer and make tonight’s fight far from just the money-making spectacle many assumed the …

Trump scores easy knockout of Nikki Haley in South Carolina

Trump scores easy knockout of Nikki Haley in South Carolina

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Trump spoke to the crowd in a generic ballroom at the South Carolina fairgrounds almost immediately after the race was called, having felt like Haley stole the spotlight from him in New Hampshire when she got in front of cameras first despite losing. Standing on stage flanked by family members and political allies, Trump did not mention Haley at all. Aides to the campaign said the message he wanted to deliver today was that the primary is over. “On November 5th, we’re going to get up here and say, ‘Joe you’re fired! You’re fired! Get out!’” Trump said. Trump’s win challenges the notion that parties are composed of differing regional interests. The former president won the backing of nearly every statewide elected Republican in Haley’s home state, plowing through the South after decisive victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. While Trump only made five visits to the state since the start of 2024 for rallies and fundraisers, and spent significantly less money than Haley’s campaign in the state, his team here worked to woo grassroots …