19-0 KO Champion - Anthony Joshua Knocks Out Wladimir Klitschko to Claim 19th Victory

Anthony Joshua added the WBA belt to his IBF title with an 11th-round stoppage of Wladimir Klitschko in a thrilling fight on Saturday.

Joshua was knocked down in round six but twice had Klitschko on the canvas in the penultimate round before the referee stepped in.

Not only did the 27-year-old retain the IBF World Heavyweight Championship, Joshua remains undefeated as a professional, with 19 victories.

The bout which made history as one of the biggest fight nights in boxing history drew a record post-war British boxing crowd of 90,000 at Wembley.

Any talk of Anthony Joshua versus Tyson Fury may have to be shelved for a bit, as Klitschko has a rematch clause to fight Joshua again.

UFC News: Ronda Rousey Put To Sleep in First 48 Seconds

Ronda Rousey was stopped 48 seconds into her comeback fight Friday night, losing to bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 on Friday night.

Rousey staggered and stumbled backward while Nunes relentlessly pursued her and landed multiple shots. Referee Herb Dean stopped the bout with Rousey still on her feet, and Rousey briefly protested the stoppage before leaving the cage in her mother's arms.

Cody Garbrandt also won the men's bantamweight title in the penultimate bout, battering champion Dominick Cruz to earn a surprising decision victory at T-Mobile Arena in the UFC's traditional end-of-the-year show in its hometown.

World Champion, Lionel Messi Quits International Football

World Champion, Lionel Messi has announced his resignation from International football after losing to Chile in a penalty shootout in the Copa America final last night, BBC reports.

“It’s not meant for me. For me the national team is over. I’ve done all I can, it hurts not to be a champion,” the 29-year-old forward said.

The Argentina team has lost in 3 Copa America final games in the last 9 years – two to Chile on penalties and one to Brazil in 2007. The team also lost the 2014 World Cup final game to Germany after an extra time goal by Mario Gotze.

“It’s been four finals, I tried. It was the thing I wanted the most, but I couldn’t get it, so I think it’s over.

I think this is best for everyone. First of all for me, and then for everyone. I think there’s a lot of people who want this, who obviously are not satisfied, as we are not satisfied reaching a final and not winning it.

It’s very hard, but the decision is taken. Now I will not try more and there will be no going back,” he added.

Ronda Rousey’s Incredible 14 Second KO Victory Over Cat Zingano

UFC 184 on Saturday was headlined by “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey defending her bantamweight title against “Alpha” Cat Zingano, in what UFC was hyping as her toughest fight. The betting odds didn’t reflect that, though, as Rousey was a -700 favorite. The actual fight played out like the bookies expected though, as Rousey defeated Zingano with a record-setting 14 second straight armlock.

Serena Williams Wins Sixth Australian Open Title

Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova 6-3 7-6 (7-5) to win the Australian Open title. It is her sixth Australian Open title and her 19th grand slam title. 

Boxer Floyd Mayweather shows off his expensive 'toys'...

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King Jon Jones beats Daniel Cormier via unanimous decision at UFC 182

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After years of buildup, Daniel Cormier finally got his shot at Jon "Bones" Jones. It didn't go the way he always wanted it to, however, as the reigning champion successfully defended his title at UFC 182 via unanimous decision.

There are many MMA fans, and probably many of his peers, who don't care for Jon Jones.

They say he's fake. They call him arrogant.

And while he may be all of those things, he is also the greatest fighter in the world by far. There is no one close to the UFC's light heavyweight champion, who won four of the five rounds on all three judges' cards to defeat rival Daniel Cormier on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden in the main event of UFC 182.

South Africa wins Miss World 2014 pageant

Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss has won the Miss World 2014 pageant. Miss Hungary and Miss US were 2nd and third runners up respectively.

        

Winnipeg man wins world champion beer runner

Contributed/Josh Baker Winnipeg’s Corey Gallagher heads down the straight away trailed closely by Australian Jack Colreavy at the Flotrack Beer Mile World Championships in Austin, TX Wednesday.

 Shane Gibson Metro A Winnipeg letter carrier can now say he’s literally the world’s fastest beer drinker.

Long distance runner Corey Gallagher, 27, brought home the blue ribbon at the first ever Beer Mile Championship in Austin, Texas Wednesday night.

The contest sees runners pound four beers during a one-mile race. Starting with one before the race starts, runners then stop for three more quick ones every quarter-mile of the contest. Anyone who vomits is forced to take an extra lap.

“It’s not so much about going out there and getting drunk or just hammering these beers to see who can drink them the fastest and who can get drunk,” explained Gallagher from Texas Thursday, calling the race more of an endurance contest to see who can perform the best while battling the disadvantages brought on by a few cold ones. “The second you put the beer in there you’re burping, it’s carbonated, it starts foaming up.

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Canadian beatbox champion loses title, shows poise

"Peterpot" McInnes, performing at the Canadian Beatboxing Competition at the Mod Club in Toronto on Saturday night.  Torstar News Service/Contributed James

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James “Peterpot” McInnes had to give up the title of Canadian Beatboxing Champion on Saturday but right before the competition kicked off, he said he doesn’t mind losing.

“You learn more from losing than you do from winning,” said the 26-year-old Calgary native, who went on to finish second in the battle hosted at Toronto’s Mod Club. He lost to Windsor’s Joseph Bouary, known on stage as BBK.

Fear of failing shouldn’t be a deterrent to trying something new, said McInnes. After discovering beatboxing as a teen, McInnes was determined to sharpen his vocal imitation of beats, basslines and melodies.

As a child, he always wanted to learn to play an instrument but didn’t have the money to take formal lessons. Being raised by a single mother not only meant money was tight, it also meant there was no one to take care of McInnes when his mother couldn’t.

Legend Roger Federer Wins Shanghai Master In Straight Sets

Roger Federer celebrates after defeating Gilles Simon in the final of the Shanghai Masters. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters

Roger Federer won the Shanghai Masters title as he overcame a determined Gilles Simon 7-6, 7-6 in a tight final in China.

The Frenchman broke in the first game and looked on course for the opening set but Federer broke back and took the tie-break – much to the delight of most of those inside the arena.

Federer, who will move up a place to No2 in the ATP rankings on Monday, was playing the better tennis but the second set also went to a tie-break, and the 17-times grand slam winner wrapped up victory in an hour and 52 minutes.

Floyd Mayweather (47 - 0) Wins Maidana Again

Forty-seven opponents have attempted to fell Floyd Mayweather, and all have failed. Mayweather remains unbeaten at 47-0 after winning a unanimous decision over Marcos Maidana on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

 

The judges scored it 115-112, 116-111 and 116-111, per Showtime Sports:



Despite arguably winning the rematch more convincingly, Mayweather felt that his performance had dropped from the first bout

The MGM Grand Garden Arena has become a second home to Mayweather. Coming into the fight, he was 12-0 in the venue, per ESPN Stats and Info. That figure now moves to 13-0

Early on, Mayweather's strategy was clear for all to see. In the first fight, he looked to have underestimated Maidana's ability and punching power. That bout was closer than almost any Mayweather fight of the last decade or so.

Right from the start, Money wanted to ensure that wouldn't happen again. Mayweather was a hive of activity, constantly on the move. He never remained on the ropes long enough for Maidana to trap him in a corner.

Serena Williams Gets $4 Million for Winning US Open

Tennis superstar, Serena Williams, has been given $4 million for winning the US Open!

This is the 6th time in history that she has won the tournament. Her victory also means this is her 18th Grand Slam singles title.

 

The final match of the tournament took place in Flushing Meadows, New York on Sunday, September 7th.

 

Williams, who is ranked as the number one tennis player in the world, defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-3 6-3 in straight sets, BBC reports.

 

Speaking on her win, she said “I couldn’t have finished things in a better way. It is a pleasure for me to win here, I am really emotional. I couldn’t ask to do it at a better place.”

 

Wozniacki, who is a close friend of Williams, congratulated Serena saying, “she really deserved it today and played better than me.”

 

Great sportsmanship!

 

Serena Williams & Caroline Wozniacki

Marin Cilic of Crotia Wins US Open, His First Ever Grand Slam Title

Marin Cilic, of Croatia, reacts after a defeating Kei Nishikori, of Japan, during the championship match of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York.AP

Marin Cilic of Croatia won his first Grand Slam title by beating Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 on Monday in the U.S. Open final, a year after missing the tournament because of a doping suspension.

The 14th-seeded Cilic prevented Nishikori from becoming the first man from Asia to win a major singles championship.

 

There hadn't been a matchup between two players making their Grand Slam final debuts at Flushing Meadows since 1997, and this hardly qualified as a classic. It lasted less than two hours, with Cilic hitting 17 aces and relying on the same powerful groundstrokes that helped him eliminate Roger Federer in the semifinals.

A year ago, Cilic missed the U.S. Open while serving a four-month ban after testing positive for a stimulant.

Queen of the Court Serena Williams Wins US Open

 
Serena Williams ended a difficult-for-her Grand Slam season in the best way possible, winning her third consecutive U.S. Open title by beating Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday.

Williams equaled Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova with 18 major singles titles, the fourth-most in history. Williams also matched Evert's total of six championships at the U.S. Open and became the first woman to win three in a row since Evert's four-title run from 1975-78.

Williams earned $4 million, a record in tennis -- $3 million for the title, plus a $1 million bonus for having had the best results during the North American summer hard-court circuit.

It was a dominant performance to cap a dominant two weeks in Flushing Meadows. Not only did Williams, ranked and seeded No. 1, win all 14 sets she played in the tournament, she never even dropped more than three games in any of them.

Until the U.S. Open, though, Williams had not been at her best on her sport's biggest stages in 2014. She lost in the fourth round at the Australian Open, the second round at the French Open, and the third round at Wimbledon, where a disoriented Williams also struggled through an odd appearance in doubles that was attributed to a viral illness.

Back at the top of her game, Williams broke Wozniacki's serve five times and compiled a hard-to-believe 29-4 edge in winners.

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World No.1, Rory McIlroy wins PGA Championship

Rory McIlroy awoke Sunday to a storm that forced him into a waiting game and then discovered a film crew inadvertently showed the golf world the pass code to his iPhone as he typed it in.

Ninety minutes later he faced the burden of keeping some of the biggest stars in golf at a distance and slugging it out with soggy Valhalla Golf Club to win the 96^th edition of PGA Championship.

Two hours into his final round, he had lost the lead he earned through the tournament's first 54 holes and looked puzzled as his game looked frazzled.

The world's No. 1 player finally gathered himself and remained collected the rest of the way as fireworks exploded on the prairies and backwoods of the Bluegrass State.

Barely beating the setting sun and approaching thunder and lightning, McIlroy held off Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson and Henrik Stenson to win the last major of the season.

Ignited by an eagle from 7 feet on the par-5 10^th hole, and basically slamming the door shut on his competitors with a birdie from 10 feet on the 17^th, the former Boy Wonder won his fourth major of his young career, three of them in his last nine starts and two in his last two.

King of Canadian Tennis Milos Raonic Wins Citi Open

The king of Canadian tennis isn't ready to give up his throne just yet.

Milos Raonic delivered a strong message Sunday with a workmanlike 6-1, 6-4, win against countryman Vasek Pospisil in an anti-climactic Citi Open final in Washington, D.C. The match marked the first all-Canadian final in ATP history and took just 67 minutes to complete.

"It gives me a lot of confidence," said Raonic, who earned his first ATP title of 2014 and will rise one spot in the latest ATP rankings and match his career-high of No. 6 in the world

"I've always said that hard courts are by far my favorite, and having done as well I did on clay and grass (this year), it got me really excited about this week. For that to be my showing right away this week was great."

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., was nearly perfect in his first tournament since a semifinal run at Wimbledon. As the second seed in Washington, Raonic did not drop a set all week thanks largely to what the 13th-seeded Pospisil called "the best serve in the game right now."

Raonic won 92 per cent of his first serve points in Sunday's final and faced just one break point against in beating Pospisil for the second time in as many ATP meetings. Raonic also beat Pospisil in three sets in the semifinals of last year's Rogers Cup in Montreal.

Canada's Damian Warner wins Commonweal​th Games decathlon

Jim Steacy pulled the Canadian flag tighter around his broad shoulders, and with tears in his eyes said "This is for her."

Steacy won gold in the hammer throw Tuesday at the Commonwealth Games in what he called the perfect ending to what has been the toughest of seasons for the 30-year-old from Lethbridge, Alta.

He dedicated the victory to his mom Debby, who died suddenly in April.

"It's a good way to finish off," he said quietly.

Steacy's victory was a highlight on a good night on the track for Canada. Damian Warner of London, Ont., won the men's decathlon in dominant fashion, Kate Van Buskirk of Toronto was third in the women's 1,500 metres, and Brianne Theisen-Eaton and Jessica Zelinka finished Day 1 of the heptathlon 1-2.

Steacy's win was also his first major international victory since he won the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.

"It's been a long time coming," he said.

What's kept him going?

"Trying to chase this feeling down," he said. "Honestly, this is why we do it. There is no money in this sport for us, especially in hammer. And to stand on the podium and get to wrap a flag around you like this, it's the best feeling in the world."

The six-foot-two thrower soaked up the atmosphere of a jam-packed crowd in the 44,000-seat Hampden Park to win with a throw of 74.16 metres. Nicholas Miller of England was second with 72.99, while Mark Dry of Scotland took bronze with 71.64.

"I knew the crowd noise was going to play a major part, the atmosphere has been fantastic, it was just so much fun," Steacy said.