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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Heavyweight KO sensation Moses Itauma to face Dillian Whyte in main event of Riyadh Season card
The stage is set for Moses Itauma's breakout. Itauma will step up to face Dillian Whyte in the main event of an Aug. 16 Riyadh Season event surrounding the Esports World Cup. The 20-year-old Itauma (12-0, 10 KOs) has ended his last eight fights — and 10 total — inside two rounds. The British heavyweight sensation, also Uncrowned's 2024 prospect of the year, was last in action last month on the Josh Taylor vs. Ekow Essuman undercard in Glasgow, Scotland, stopping Mike Balogun. Advertisement Whyte (31-3, 21 KOs), 37, is on a three-fight win streak since suffering a knockout loss to Tyson Fury in his lone title challenge in April 2022. "The Body Snatcher" was scheduled to face Joe Joyce in April but was forced to withdraw from the bout with injury. Moses Itauma celebrates after his WBO Inter-Continental heavyweight win over Mike Balogun in Glasgow, Scotland, on May 24, 2025. (Photo by Steve Welsh/PA Images via Getty Images) (Steve Welsh - PA Images via Getty Images) Elsewhere on the card, Nick Ball will defend his WBA featherweight title against Sam Goodman. Ball (22-0-1, 13 KOs) has made two successful defenses against Ronny Rios and TJ Doheny since winning the championship with a controversial split decision over Raymond Ford in June 2024. Goodman (20-0, 8 KOs) was scheduled to face Naoya Inoue twice in the last year but withdrew from both bouts due to a recurring eye injury. Now, he moves up to featherweight and walks into a world title shot against Britain's all-action champion. Advertisement Ford and Anthony Cacace will clash in a battle of former super featherweight world champions on the star-studded bill. After losing his featherweight title to Ball, Ford (17-1-1, 8 KOs) moved up to super featherweight and recorded two dominant wins over Orlando Gonzalez and Thomas Mattice. Victory over Cacace could see Ford land a shot at Eduardo "Sugar" Nunez for the IBF super featherweight world title. Cacace (24-1, 9 KOs) formerly held the IBF 130-pound crown but opted to vacate the belt to face Leigh Wood rather than defend against his mandatory, Nunez. Cacace stopped Wood in May in Nottingham, England, to continue his stellar run, which includes wins over Joe Cordina and Josh Warrington. Advertisement Filip Hrgović also returns to take on British heavyweight champion David Adeleye. Hrgovic (18-1, 14 KOs) rebounded from a stoppage defeat to Daniel Dubois in June 2024 to beat Joe Joyce by unanimous decision in April. On that same card, Adeleye (14-1, 13 KOs) controversially stopped Jeamie "TKV" Tshikeva to win the British heavyweight title. Rounding out the card, Japanese contender Hayato Tsutsumi (7-0, 4 KOs) will battle Britain's Qais Ashfaq (13-3-1, 5 KOs) in a super featherweight contest.
BBC News
09-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Belfast's Cacace set to fight Ford in Saudi Arabia
Belfast's Anthony Cacace is set for a return to Saudi Arabia on 16 August to face former world featherweight champion Raymond Ford. According to Ring Magazine, 36-year-old Cacace will seek to continue his recent fairytale run against the 26-year-old New Jersey southpaw on a card topped by a heavyweight contest between rising star Moses Itauma and Dillian in action will be WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball - who relieved Ford of the title last year - in a defence against Australia's Sam Riyadh Season event will give Cacace the chance to cement his position as one of the leading lights of the 130-pound claimed the IBF title with a stunning eighth-round win over Joe Cordina in May 2024 before scoring a victory over Josh Warrington at Wembley Stadium in left him with a decision to make in terms of keeping hold of the belt with a mandatory challenger in Eduardo 'Sugar' Nunez next in line, but he opted to relinquish before facing Leigh Wood in Nottingham last month. Following his ninth-round victory against Wood, there was a strong suggestion Cacace was set for Belfast homecoming, but he was also keen to stress his willingness to travel in order to secure another big since went on to win the vacant IBF title with a points win over Masanori Rikiishi in Japan last month and would have represented the most realistic path back to an immediate shot at one of the four main titles.O'Shaquie Foster looks set to defend his WBC belt against Stephen Fulton later in the summer, while WBO holder Emanuel Navarrete has been ordered to rematch Charly Suarez after his controversial technical decision victory was changed to a WBA champion Lamont Roach set for a lightweight rematch against Gervonta Davis later in the year, it leaves those super-featherweight title belts tied up, but a meeting with Ford represents a major challenge for Cacace.
New York Post
06-06-2025
- New York Post
Green card husband of Hannah Kobayashi, who faked her disappearance, rips her in scathing first interview
The green card husband of the presumed-missing Hawaiian photographer whose bizarre case captivated the country last year spoke out for the first time Friday — slamming her as a 'terrible person.' Alan Cacace, a citizen of Argentina, revealed details of an immigration scam that may have prompted Hannah Kobayashi's mysterious disappearance and return in December, according to the Daily Mail. 'That girl is sick,' Cacace told the outlet — explaining that she offered him $15,000 to keep the scheme a secret, then failed to pay up. Advertisement 4 Hannah Kobayashi triggered a nation-wide manhunt last year before popping up safely in Mexico. Facebook 'I thought that after everything that had happened, she was going to do things correctly, but she lied to me once again,' he said. 'She's a terrible person.' Kobayashi, 31, triggered a nationwide search in November after she suddenly vanished while she was supposed to be boarding a flight to New York — only to be found safely traveling alone in Mexico weeks later. Advertisement 4 Alan Cacace said he paid Kobayashi thousands of dollars for a green card wedding. Facebook/Alan Tomas Cacace Kobayashi had been flying with Cacace and her possibly 'jealous' ex-boyfriend, Amun Muniz-Miranda, along with the ex's alleged own green card wife, when she inexplicably left Los Angeles International Airport and went missing, sources have said. In December, the FBI began looking into the case as a potential green card visa scam gone wrong after the dynamics of the group reportedly soured. Cacace said he paid Kobayashi $15,000 for a fake marriage in Maui that was meant to get him the green card, according to the Daily Mail. Advertisement She later offered to refund him the cash in exchange for him agreeing not to talk — then ghosted him, Cacace told the outlet. 'In exchange for my silence she promised after everything she did to return my money,' Cacace said. 'But I see that it was just another of her lies.' 4 Kobayashi sparked a nationwide search after she went missing in November. AP In November, the foursome of fake newlyweds left for New York in order to convince immigration officials their marriage was genuine but things got tense, allegedly triggering her disappearance, the Daily Mail reported. Advertisement While Kobayashi was missing, her father, Ryan Kobayashi, 58, died by suicide after trying to find her — a tragedy she addressed in a social media post last month. 4 Hannah Kobayashi addressed her father's suicide in a social media post. Facebook '[Life is] such a precious gift.. especially after such loss and pain and suffering,' she said. 'We should all learn to be kind to one another and cherish every single moment that we can because we are all connected.' In another video, Kobayashi said she was 'grateful' for people who devoted 'time and energy' into searching for her last year. Kobayashi said in December that she was traveling alone in Mexico with no clue a massive search was underway for her in the US.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Yahoo
CT man pleads guilty to strangling, dismembering dog in New York
A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to taking a dog belonging to a man he had been staying with in New York and killing the animal before dismembering it and scattering its body in a number of different trash containers. Benjamin Tyler, 40, of New Milford took a plea deal on Monday in Westchester County District Court, according to District Attorney Susan Cacace. He pleaded guilty to a felony charge of aggravated cruelty to animals. According to the New Rochelle Police Department, a 41-year-old man went to authorities on Dec. 6 and reported that Tyler, a longtime acquaintance who had been temporarily staying at his apartment, killed his English bulldog named Bruno. Cacace said Tyler strangled the animal to death at the apartment before dismembering it and leaving parts of the body in garbage containers around New Rochelle. 'The defendant's conduct in this case is sickening beyond comprehension,' Cacace said in a statement announcing the plea deal. 'He will soon have time to reflect on the depravity of his actions from the Westchester County jail. Cruelty to animals will never be tolerated under my administration.' Tyler turned himself in at the New Rochelle Police Department on Dec. 23 after investigators obtained a warrant for his arrest. In a statement announcing the arrest, police called the allegations 'shocking' and 'disturbing.' 'The New Rochelle Police Department would like to remind the public that animal cruelty is a serious crime and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,' the department said. Tyler is scheduled to face sentencing on Sept. 8, when he is expected to receive a year in jail.
The Independent
27-05-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Ryan Garner set for Bournemouth return to defend EBU belt against Reece Bellotti
Ryan Garner's next opponent has been confirmed, with the super featherweight set to defend his EBU title against Reece Bellotti. Undefeated Garner, (7-0 (8), picked up the EBU strap in March at the Bournemouth International Centre with a unanimous decision over the then-unbeaten Salvador Jimenez. Fighting out of Southampton, 'The Piranha' is set to travel to neighbouring Bournemouth on 26 July in a voluntary mandatory defence against Bellotti, 20-5 (15). Bellotti holds the the British and Commonwealth titles at super featherweight. Garner had been in talks with fellow Briton James 'Jazza' Dickens, 34-5 (14). Aside from his EBU title, Garner also holds the WBC international strap, having successfully defended it four times since winning it against Juan Jesus Antunez. Garner is seventh in the WBC's ratings and 13th with the IBF. Belotti is ranked 21st by the WBC and is unlisted by the other big three boxing organisations. 27-year-old Garner will hope that victory over Bellotti catapults him higher up the super-featherweight division. The weight class has thrown up some eye-catching bouts recently, with Anthony Cacace and Leigh Wood going head-to-head last weekend. Former IBF and current IBO champion Cacace managed to stop Wood in his own backyard. Garner was twice set to fight Cacace, only for bouts to fall through in April 2022 and November 2023. Garner has since admitted that either fight against Cacace would have come too soon for the Hampshire boxer, who is slowly building to world title contention. Ever since becoming a professional, Garner has been signed to Frank Warren's Queensbury Promotions.
