Carl Froch threw nearly a thousand punches to beat Mikkel Kessler on points – one score a ludicrously lop-sided 118-110, alongside more reasonable verdicts of 115-113 and 116-112 – but he surely knows he shared the honours if not the decision with the beaten Dane.
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The chance that Frankie Dettori will receive a new licence in time to ride in the Derby on 1 June appeared to improve significantly on Thursday evening when Christopher Stewart-Moore, his solicitor, said that he is "hopeful" that a "glitch" preventing Dettori's return from a six-month riding ban has been "ironed out".
Carl Froch stares at the goose bumps that have risen on his muscular left arm and a shiver runs through him. There have never been any doubts that his fight with Mikkel Kessler at the O2 Arena in south‑east London on Saturday night in defence of his IBF super-middleweight title was going to be anything but an uncompromising reprise of their encounter in Denmark three years ago, but the Nottingham boxer has reached a frightening pitch of intensity.
Frankie Dettori's comeback appeared in jeopardy once more on Tuesday night as the ruling body of French racing signalled that it had concerns relating to a "medical issue" over the jockey's fitness to resume his career.
Darren Barker will get the world title shot he desperately craves after Matchroom Boxing announced he will fight Australian Darren Geale for the IBF Middleweight Belt on August 17th.
Sir Bradley Wiggins has retired from the Giro d’Italia after completing 12 stages of the 21.
Sir Ian Botham is confident that Jimmy Anderson will surpass him as England's leading Test wicket-taker after the Lancastrian became the fourth member of an exclusive 300 club here.
Novak Djokovic is out of the Rome Masters, Rafael Nadal might have been had David Ferrer not frozen for the 19th time in 23 matches against his Spanish friend, and Andy Murray still does not know if he is in the French Open.
He may struggle to see it this way as he tends his kind, battered face this morning but there is an unavoidable symmetry to Ricky Hatton's career deeply rooted in the history of boxing: nearly all his pain, physical and spiritual, arrived in a rush at the end.
With the Rugby League World Cup looming on the horizon, preparation for the England side gets underway in earnest on Friday when they take on the Exiles at the Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington.
Sunday July 15th was be a day that Amir Khan’s hopes of pound for pound glory came crashing down following a 4th round stoppage against rising star Danny Garcia.
There is something fascinating about Nick Compton, England's snazzily thoroughbred right-handed opening batsman, a player who looks, walks, takes guard and in fact does everything in the manner of a suave and stylish right-handed dasher, other than the minor fact of actually batting like one.
