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      F1 Belgian Grand Prix LIVE: FP1 to get underway with Lewis Hamilton looking to eat into Max Verstappen’s huge title lead

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      THE Formula One season gets back underway and Lewis Hamilton is looking to salvage his season with a fresh start at the Belgian Grand Prix.The seven-time F1 world champion has been on a trip to Africa to unwind during the mid-season break and has come back refreshed and raring to go.
      Max Verstappen currently leads the standings on 258 points ahead of Charles Leclerc on 178pts and Sergio Perez on 173.
      So there remains a lot to play for in the second half of the season – get set to see how it unfolds as the F1 calendar rolls on once more.

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      Friday, August 26: Practice One 1pm, Practice Two 4pm
      Saturday, August 27: Practice Three 12pm, Qualifying 3pm
      Sunday, August 28: Belgian Grand Prix race 2pm

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      Iranian Hulk deletes ‘photoshopped’ pics after humiliating defeat in the boxing ring where he looked ‘HALF’ the size

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      A BODYBUILDER dubbed the Iranian Hulk has reportedly deleted social media pictures that fans reckoned were “photoshopped”.It follows a humiliating defeat in his boxing ring debut – when his figure appeared drastically different from the sculpted frame that made him famous on Instagram.
      Iranian Hulk Sajad Gharibi is a social media sensationCredit: Instagram @sajadgharibiofficial
      But he suffered humiliating defeat in his boxing debut against Kazakh TitanCredit: WICKED N BAD
      Fans thought Hulk did not quite match his Insta-famous muscleman physiqueCredit: WICKED N BAD
      Social media sensation Sajad Gharibi, 30, was barely able to throw a punch in a pitiful display against Kazakh Titan.
      And fans noticed he cut a sorry figure compared to the muscular giant he appeared to be in Instagram snaps shared with his one million followers.
      Instead of his famous rippling biceps and six-pack torso, Gharibi looked unfit with a bulging tummy straining under his t-shirt.
      He also appeared shorter than his claimed 6ft 2in – standing around the same height as 5ft 7in strongman Titan.
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      Rookie boxer Gharibi turned his back on his opponent several times before the referee stopped the fight in the first round.
      One fan said: “Somebody please pay Iranian Hulk to never step foot inside a boxing ring again.”
      Since that embarrassing bout in Dubai, Gharibi has wiped dozens of pictures from his profile, reports the Daily Star.
      Only 14 pictures and videos are still visible on his account, while the more spectacular images have vanished.
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      Gharibi – also known as “the Persian Hercules” – has become famous for his colossal physique.
      His is known for posting snaps and videos of his strongman antics including breaking concrete in half, punching walls, and pulling cars.
      Little is known about his childhood in Ahvaz, but he has previously said he had a traditional upbringing with family values at its centre.
      Throwback pics show him as a weedy eight-year-old before he beefed up aged 14.
      Later he claimed he represented Iran in powerlifting competitions.
      He has claimed to be able to lift 50lbs more than his purported 380lbs bodyweight.
      Gharibi is said to have flirted with MMA before setting his sights on a career in boxing.
      Earlier this year he was lined up for a clash of the titans bout with Brit bodybuilder Martyn Ford.
      But 6ft 9in Ford – dubbed the “world’s scariest man” – pulled out citing fears for Gharibi’s mental health.
      Before the scheduled bout, they faced off in Dubai – and tempers flared as Ford shoved his opponent to the floor.
      Ford also fanned the flames by claiming Gharibi digitally alters his Instagram snaps.
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      He said: “I think he’s just fooled the world with Photoshop, if I’m honest.
      “Seeing him in real life is not as impressive as seeing him in pictures.”
      Sajad Gharibi is known as the Iranian HulkCredit: Instagram
      He claimed to be a champion powerlifter weighing 380lbsCredit: Instagram @sajadgharibiofficial
      Recently he set his sights on a career in boxingCredit: Instagram @sajadgharibiofficial
      Some of his more spectacular Instagram snaps have now been deletedCredit: Refer to Caption
      Martyn Ford claimed Gharibi was less impressive in person than in his photosCredit: Instagram @sajadgharibiofficial More

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      Man to stand trial charged with murdering Tyson Fury’s cousin Rico Burton after he was stabbed outside bar

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      A MAN will stand trial charged with murdering Tyson Fury’s cousin in a knife attack outside a bar.Rico Burton, 31, was stabbed to death in a 3am “bloodbath” in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, over the weekend.
      Rico Burton was stabbed to death outside a pub
      Liam O’Prey has been charged with murderCredit: Facebook/Liam O’pray
      A 17-year-old man, believed to be a relative, suffered significant life-changing injuries and remains in hospital.
      Liam O’Prey, 21, appeared at Manchester Crown Court today charged with murder.
      He is also accused of assault and causing wounding with intent in relation to the teen and faces further charges of possession of a bladed article and possession of cocaine.
      O’Prey spoke only to confirm his identity and to say “thank you” to the judge.
      He was remanded in custody ahead of a provisional trial date of February 6 next year.
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      Ex-youth boxing star Rico had been watching the Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk fight with pals on Saturday before they moved to a different pub in leafy Altrincham.
      Emergency crews were scrambled to the Goose Green area in the early hours of Sunday morning after a fight allegedly broke out.
      Rico was rushed to hospital but sadly couldn’t be saved and was declared dead shortly after.
      Officers arrested O’Prey and a 20-year-old man on suspicion of murder following the horror.
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      The second suspect has been released on bail pending enquiries.
      In a social media post on Sunday, Fury called on the government to “bring higher sentencing for knife crime” after his cousin was “stabbed in the neck”.
      The heavyweight boxing champion wrote on Instagram: “My cousin was murdered last night, stabbed in the neck.
      “This is becoming ridiculous… idiots carry knives. This needs to stop.”
      He added: “ASAP, UK government needs to bring higher sentencing for knife crime.
      “It’s a pandemic and you don’t know how bad it is until one of your own.
      “Life is very precious and it can be taken away very quick. Enjoy every moment.”
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      Steve Egan, 60, chief coach at Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy where Rico trained, described him as a “lovely lad” and a “fantastic boxer”.
      He added: “We are all devastated.”
      O’Prey appeared in court todayCredit: Facebook/Liam O’pray
      Tyson Fury has called for an end to knife crime
      Emergency crews raced to the Green Goose area of AltrinchamCredit: PA More

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      ‘I ripped her whole mouth open’ – Boxer Ebanie Bridges reveals bloodbath pub brawl that left her with bite marks

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      EBANIE BRIDGES has revealed the PUB FIGHT that left another woman “p***ing blood from her mouth”.The Aussie boxing star, 35, silenced her critics by emphatically seeing off Maria Cecilia Roman to become IBF champion in March.
      Bridges won the IBF bantamweight world title in Leeds against Maria Cecilia RomanCredit: PA
      The Blonde Bomber is famed for her punching power and entertaining weigh-insCredit: PA
      Bridges often leaves little to the imagination during fight promotionsCredit: PA
      The Blond Bomber has a professional record of 8-1 .
      And the IBF have ordered Bridges to defend her bantamweight world title against fellow Australian Shannon O’Connell.
      But it’s a fight outside the ring that has shocked her fans.
      Appearing on IFL ‘RAW: The Fight Within’ podcast, Bridges spoke about a remarkable pub scrap back home in Australia.

      She said: “I’ve got a really good pub fight story if you want to listen to that one?
      “I can’t get into too many details because obviously I don’t want to get in trouble, but I did have a pub fight where I was sitting with my friends.
      “These big islander girls. Group of five of them. I’m like ‘can you move over a little bit? You keep knocking me when you’re talking’.
      “They were like, ‘oh? We keep knocking you?’ And started giving me s***.
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      “I’m not a trouble starter, it takes a lot. My friend is getting wound up. They kept going on and my friend said she had my back so I took my watch off ready.
      “I’ve gone ‘bang’ with all my might in this girl’s face.
      “I don’t even know what happened, I was sitting down and it felt like they were hammer hitting, slapping my head.
      “I couldn’t do anything because I had one arm covering my face and I’m sitting down. I felt her mouth, so I put my fingers in her mouth, and I ripped her whole mouth open with a big fish hook.
      “There was blood everywhere, it was nuts. I got up and I had teeth bite marks on me and everything and we ran outside of the club.
      “It was crazy, I remember I went down to the restaurant with my hair all hanging out, blood all over my hands and bite marks all over me.
      “I remember cleaning myself up and my friend was like ‘where are you? What did you do to that girl?’
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      “Her boyfriend comes down and goes ‘what did you do to her?’. She was sitting there with blood p***ing out of her mouth, because I must have ripped her inner gum open.
      “That was fun. I mean there’s more, I push-kicked a girl, I elbowed a girl, but mind you they all f***ing started with me.”  More

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      KSI fight – date, UK start time, live stream, PPV price, TV channel and undercard for Swarmz and Luis Pineda fights

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      WHY fight once when you can just have two for the price of one? KSI is BACK in the ring and is so keen… he’s fighting TWICE.The YouTuber’s original opponent Alex Wassabi had to pull out because of an injury sustained in his training camp, and he now faces rapper Swarmz and then Mexican pro boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda in a double bill main event.
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      Wassabi wrote on Instagram: “With all these rumours going around, there’s only two things that are true.
      “I’ve recently suffered a serious injury and I will be back very soon.
      “You don’t play with concussions. New fight date announcement on the way.”
      So KSI will face BOTH Swarmz and Pineda instead, and that’s despite Jake Paul’s calls for HIM to be chosen as the Brit’s next opponent.
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      When is KSI vs Swarmz and Pineda?

      KSI’s fights with Swarmz and Pineda will go ahead on Saturday, August 27.
      KSI opens up his own show to fight Swarmz at 7.10pm, and then closes it against Pineda at around 10pm BST.
      Pineda has a pro record of 2 wins and 5 losses. 
      The fight will be held at the O2 Arena in London.

      What TV channel is KSI fight on and can it be live streamed?

      KSI vs Swarmz and Pineda will be shown live on DAZN PPV in the UK.
      The fight will cost £11.99 to watch, on top of your £7.99-a-month subscription.
      You can live stream the event from the DAZN app, which is available for download onto your mobile or tablet device.

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      Why is KSI not fighting Ivan Nikolov?
      Originally KSI was announced to fight pro boxer Ivan Nikolov as his boxing opponent in the secondary main event.
      But Nikolov has since been pulled from the card and replaced by Pineda.
      This is because Nikolov, 43, has been seen to have neo-Nazi tattoos, causing fan fury.
      A “white power” tattoo is seen on his stomach and on his left forearm, Nikolov has a tattoo of the words “Blood & Honour”.
      That is the name of a neo-Nazi skinhead group formed in England in the 1980s.
      Also in between the words is a triskele symbol, a three-pointed swastika which was the logo for the group.
      Nikolov also has a Schutzstaffel logo on his right arm, which was the police and military force of the Nazi Party, who pledged an oath of loyalty to Germany’s ex-dictator Adolf Hitler.
      His neo-Nazi tattoos were pointed out by one of his previous opponents, Daniel Blenda Dos Santos, who slammed the boxer after winning their fight in April.
      Dos Santos said: “When I saw his tattoos, some of them racist in nature, I wanted to hurt him.”
      KSI, 28, responded to the allegations on his YouTube channel and confirmed Nikolov was replaced due to his tattoos.
      He said: “He’s a white supremacist
      “Ivan isn’t my opponent anymore. He has been removed.
      “The matchmaker also got fired for allowing this to happen in the first place. But yes, my new opponent is Luis Alcaraz Pineda.”
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      What has been said?
      “Just wanna say that at the end of the day, the one of the main goals of this first fight was to get rid of ring rust,” KSI said after the announcement.
      “I wanted to prove to myself that I’m a better boxer than I’ve portrayed in the past. If you wanna see, fine.
      “If not, fine. I’m still doing it anyway. There are still many good fights on this card that I’m excited to see.
      “We are the only YouTube boxing event happening this summer.
      “We’ve had many things try to disrupt this event but still we stand. This is a long term play, and I’ll happily take a small L now for a big W later.”
      Jake Paul, however, has had a few things to say about the fight.
      “KSI vs Swampz… Dod’t they have music together?” he wrote on Twitter.
      “He’s fighting someone who has never fought before and that is his friend…
      “This fight should for free.” More

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      Ebanie Bridges ramps up feud with boxing rival Shannon Courtenay with Brit set to appear on Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins

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      EBANIE BRIDGES has hit out at rival Shannon Courtenay for agreeing to appear on Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins.Courtenay, 29, beat Bridges to claim the WBA bantamweight title back in April 2021.
      Courtenay is set to compete on Celebrity SAS Who Dares WinsCredit: Shannon Courtenay – Instagram
      Bridges won the IBF bantamweight world title back in MarchCredit: PA
      Courtenay, left, beat Bridges, right, to claim the WBA world title last yearCredit: The Sun
      Since then, the pair have continued to exchange trash talk back and forth ahead of a potential rematch.
      And Australian Bridges has now slammed Courtenay after it was confirmed that the Brit would be appearing on the hit Channel 4 programme which tests celebrities’ physical and mental capabilities.
      Bridges, who claimed a world title of her own earlier this year, competed on the Australian version of the show.
      And one social media user accused Courtenay of copying her by saying: “I see Courtenay is copy/pasting Ebanie Bridges again…”
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      To which Bridges replied: “I hope it changed her a little and she grows as a person tbh.”
      Bridges’ only professional defeat to date came at the hands of Courtenay – but the Aussie’s fortunes have turned around since then.
      She has picked up three successive wins which culminated in a world title triumph over Maria Cecilia Roman in Leeds five months ago.
      Meanwhile, Courtenay failed to follow up her win over Bridges as she lost her WBA belt on the scales.
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      She came in two and a half pounds over the 118lb limit for her bout with Jamie Mitchell in October last year.
      To compound her disappointment, Courtenay was then beaten in a fight where the title was only on the line for Mitchell.
      The Hertfordshire-born fighter has not returned to the ring since that loss 10 months ago.
      Courtenay lost her world title after missing weight against Mitchell in OctoberCredit: The Sun
      Bridges captured a world championship to avenge the loss to CourtenayCredit: PA
      Bridges still appears to be on a collision course to rematch CourtenayCredit: PA More

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      Chris Eubank Jr has ‘beaten up HEAVYWEIGHTS’ in sparring as his mentor says ref must be ‘protective’ of Conor Benn

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      CHRIS EUBANK JR’s mentor has warned that Conor Benn must be protected in their super-fight as his man has beaten up HEAVYWEIGHTS in sparring. Benn and Eubank are set for a DAZN pay-per-view blockbuster on October 8 at the O2 Arena, almost 30 years after their dads’ famous rematch.
      Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn ahead of their catchweight clashCredit: Richard Pelham / The Sun
      Due to their size disparity, the born rivals have agreed to meet between weights at a catchweight of 157lb.
      It will see Eubank Jr, 32, come down from the 160lb middleweight division while Benn, 25, jumps up 10lb from the welterweight limit.
      His coach Tony Sims claimed even in usual fight camps, they bring in sparring partners no smaller than middleweight.
      But Ronnie Davies – who led Eubank Sr in those two classics with Nigel Benn – argued sparring means little having seen Jr do damage of his own in the gym.
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      Davies told SunSport: “They go one about how good he looks in sparring against the bigger boys, it doesn’t mean nothing. 
      “I’ve see Eubank Jr beating up heavyweights in the gym and that’s with big gloves and head guards on.”
      Davies admitted he never wanted Eubank to fight Benn again, such was the brutality of their first fight, which he won in round nine.
      Although the rivals were evenly matched at middleweight and then super-middle for their 1993 rematch which ended a draw.
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      Whereas Nigel’s son is having to step up in weight and in experience, a task Eubank Jr’s boxing mentor reckons is too great.
      Davies said: “I think Eubank Jr is too big and too battle hardened for him. 
      “Eubank and Benn were the same weight, I can’t see young Conor Benn putting the same power on Eubank to what his father did to his father. 
      “I think the ref will have to be protective of him. But, who knows? In boxing, he might pull it off.” 
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      Meet KSI’s boxing comeback opponent Swarmz, who made a song with YouTuber and once had promising football career

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      RAPPER Swarmz is set to be the first of TWO men KSI will fight on his return to boxing. YouTube star KSI – real name Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji – will fight for the first time in three years on Saturday at the O2 Arena.
      Swarmz and KSI have a song togetherCredit: Kelvin Jones
      Swarmz makes his boxing debut against KSICredit: Misfits Boxing
      And he plans to make up for lost time by facing two opponents on the same night.
      The first of the double act will be musician Swarmz, who KSI knows very well.
      Alongside Tion Wayne, the pair recorded Houdini in 2020, but supposedly they did not see eye to eye.
      That became evident when Swarmz – real name Brandon Scott – called out KSI on TikTok Live.
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      He said: “I will smoke him. I want KSI, I’ll win bro, I’ll smoke him.”
      The bad blood was apparently strong enough for Swarmz to be contacted as a replacement opponent for KSI’s return.
      Alex Wassabi, 32, was the initial man in the opposite corner, until the American withdrew amid a concussion scare.
      Swarmz, 25, was then surprisingly announced as Wassabi’s substitute, but it did not go down well.
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      The backlash was so fierce KSI decided to recruit another opponent to fight after Swarmz.
      That was initially journeyman Ivan Nikolov – but the Bulgarian later emerged to be am alleged white supremacist with neo-Nazi tattoos.
      So 2-5 Mexican Luis Alcarez Pineda, 23, was instead drafted in as yet another replacement.
      Despite his losing record, he is at least an experienced boxer, something Swarmz certainly is not.
      But he is at least a sportsman, having had at one point a promising football career.
      Swarmz was on the books at Fulham, Charlton Athletic and Southend United at youth level.
      And he later played for Southend but dropped to non-league afterwards, before quitting football in 2018 to focus solely on music.
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      He told Amarudontv: “I could have gone far in football, but it was a thing with my attitude. I was was just silly, I had a lot of potential.”
      Swarmz was still making music while playing football but got his big break after releasing Lyca, which went viral.
      He was then signed by Virgin Records and has collaborated with the likes of Bugzy Malone, Krept and Konan and Dappy of N-Dubz.
      Swarmz is a heavy underdog against friend-turned-foe KSI but vowed to upset the odds.
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      He said: “When I get in this ring, I’m going to smoke this guy – watch, I’m a mad man.
      “I’ve got a question for all of you KSI fans; do you really think that this doughnut, who never takes his bandana off his fat head, is going to beat me?
      “Swarmz is the guy to know you out August 27, mate.”
      Swarmz was a talented footballerCredit: www.cray-wanderers.com
      Swarmz will be the first of two men KSI fights
      KSI ahead of his boxing returnCredit: Reuters More