Simon Jordan has aimed fire at Eddie Hearn in the aftermath of the Anthony Joshua vs Dillian Whyte fight cancellation by bringing back up the boxing promoter’s previous comments. Hearn had to step in when Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn’s bout was cancelled last year, and Jordan has since questioned him.
Eubank Jr and Benn’s fight was scheduled for October at the O2 Arena, but organisers took it off the table after the latter tested positive for the banned
Anthony Joshua’s fight with fellow British heavyweight Dillian Whyte has now been cancelled after an ‘adverse finding’ in an anti-doping sample provided by the latter. The bout was scheduled to take place at the O2 Arena in London on August 12, with both boxers keen to settle the score with their rival after stepping into the ring together in December 2015.
A statement from Matchroom, which promote both fighters, read: “Today, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) informed Matchroom, the
Back in 1964, John Wayne had a cancerous lung and a few ribs removed, leaving him stricken with health problems for the rest of his life.
Duke would struggle tenaciously through physical scenes in his movies, secretly relying on an oxygen mask that he was desperate to hide from the public, so as not to taint his strong cinematic image.
Pushing on to make a string of movies over the next decade, including his Oscar win for True Grit, the
Taylor Swift fans in the UK and Ireland hoping to go her Eras tour are now facing another hurdle as her promoter has said all resale tickets sold so far are invalid.
Fans have scrambled to get tickets to see the US megastar and headed to resale sites including viagogo where tickets are being listed for as much as £10,000.
But those who have splashed out on resale tickets will likely be refused entry to her gigs in Dublin, Liverpool,
George Russell believes that the FIA should cancel this year’s Belgian Grand Prix if the conditions are unsafe at Spa-Francorchamps, where heavy rain is expected to fall this weekend.
“The two questions are, is Spa safe enough and then it’s the question of the conditions,” said Russell.
“The fact is motorsport will always be dangerous when you’re travelling at these speeds. It’s the visibility [in the wet], we just have no visibility whatsoever.
“The way I describe it, to try
A woman has gone to the lengths of cancelling a Barbie movie date with her boyfriend because he refused to wear pink.
The anonymous woman, who sought advice on US social forum Reddit because she’d been ‘looking forward’ to the movie for ‘so long’, said a plea for her partner to wear a ‘pink shirt’ in honor of the famous doll fell on deaf ears.
The 22-year-old felt betrayed by his lack of ‘support’, which in turn foiled her plans
Every month, more than two hundred people from the media, academia, and other intellectual circles are invited to a private hangout in New York City, which is known as the Gathering of Thought Criminals. There are two rules. The first is that you have to be willing to break bread with people who have been socially ostracized, or, as the attendees would say, “cancelled”—whether they’ve lost a job, lost friends, or simply feel persecuted for holding unpopular opinions. Some people
At least five people have died and thousands have been evacuated from popular holiday regions across northern Italy and Croatia today as ‘apocalyptic’ floods triggered by torrential rain tore through dozens of towns.
Desperate families – including young children and the elderly – were forced to climb on to their roofs in the hardest-hit Italian region of Emilia-Romagna as they waited anxiously for rescuers to reach them on helicopters.
The deadly floods in the popular tourist hotspot has meant this
On August 2nd, Betty Ann, who is ninety-one years old, was having a slow morning. She woke up late, flicked on the news, and shuffled around the kitchen of her suburban Philadelphia apartment, fixing coffee. Suddenly, from the TV in the other room, she heard Whoopi Goldberg on “The View,” saying Betty Ann’s name, her age, and the dollar amount that she owed in student debt. Goldberg was reading from an article that I had written about the rise of
Almost 140,000 ops and appointments have been cancelled because of NHS strikes this winter.
Hospitals and patients have already endured over a dozen walk-outs since the chaos began at the start of December.
That toll includes the biggest ever strike to rock the ailing health service on February 6, involving tens of thousands of nurses and paramedics.
Nurses continued their protests for better pay the next day as part of a 48-hour row.
Meanwhile, physiotherapists took to the picket lines
