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Heavyweight fallout, Verstappen quit threat and a season-defining injury at the top of the Premier League |
What a weekend in the world of sport: whether your preferred viewing (or participating!) is on wheels, with gloves or involving a variety of shapes and sizes of balls, it was all going down over the past few days. On Monday we bring you the best of the reaction from all our writing team across the worlds of football, Formula One, golf and beyond - but we start with boxing and AJ's shocking defeat at the hands, literally, of Daniel Dubois. |
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The redemption of Daniel Dubois, from Joe Joyce crisis to destroying Anthony Joshua |
He entered the ring as both the world heavyweight champion and the underdog at the end of a week where he was certainly not the star attraction. Daniel Dubois changed the heavyweight landscape on Saturday night at Wembley Stadium when he dropped Anthony Joshua four times in a heavyweight fight for the ages. Dubois was too fast, too smart and before the dramatic single-shot finish in the fifth round, he had bullied Joshua during a fight that few in the boxing business had dreamed would happen, with "AJ" forced to clarify his future due to the nature of the loss. An exuberant Dubois asked the remnants of the 96,000 crowd during his post-fight interview in the ring: "Were you not entertained?" Joshua had slipped away, his eyes wide open to the disaster of the night and his future as uncertain as his legs had been unsteady for most of the fight. He will continue, there might even be a rematch. The night belonged to Dubois, and it was, it needs to be said, an unlikely coronation. He called himself the "king slayer" and there is no arguing with that, but his passage to glory has been hard and his four-knockdown slugfest was not an easy prediction. Read more here |
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In depth and this week's best features |
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The season-defining moment in Man City v Arsenal that no one is talking about |
Five days earlier, Rodri had been reflecting on his workload. Some 70 or 80 games a season was far too many, he said. Around 40 or 50 would be about right. And then came the moment that may make Manchester City wonder how many more than his meagre tally of three he will muster. Rather than going on strike, as Rodri suggested players might, he could be spared matches by an extended stint on the treatment table. If Arsenal could derive plenty of cause for encouragement from their 2-2 draw at the Etihad Stadium, one had nothing to do with their set-piece expertise, rearguard action and resilience. It stretched beyond Riccardo Calafiori's auspicious full debut, William Saliba's defiance and David Raya's reflexes. Exit Rodri: from a game, potentially from much of the title race, possibly irrevocably altering it. "I haven't spoken to the doctor," said Pep Guardiola. There was no diagnosis yet, but an admission. Rodri would not have gone off, especially in a match of this magnitude, unless he needed to. Knee injuries can have a severity. Caught by Kai Havertz after three seconds, upended by Thomas Partey after a quarter of an hour, the man City thought was invincible and indestructible hobbled off. Read more here |
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Billy Horschel sorry for 'generational talent' Rory McIlroy after Wentworth win |
American Billy Horschel sympathised with Rory McIlroy after condemning golf's self-proclaimed "nearly man" to another heartbreaking defeat in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Horschel eagled the second play-off hole to win the DP World Tour's flagship event for the second time in four years after he, McIlroy and South Africa's Thriston Lawrence had finished tied on 20 under par. Lawrence was eliminated on the first extra hole after seeing his third shot spin back off the green and into the water, with McIlroy and Horschel both making birdie. The players returned to the par-five 18th for the second extra hole and both found the green in two, McIlroy narrowly missing his eagle attempt from around 30 feet before Horschel holed from marginally closer. Read more here |
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