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Tyson Fury loses title showdown against Oleksandr Usyk by unanimous decision

Tyson Fury’s mission to avenge his only professional defeat ended in crushing disappointment as he lost on a unanimous points decision to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in Riyadh. Another classic encounter between the well-matched rivals ended with Usyk retaining his WBC, WBA and WBO belts by finishing 116-112 ahead on all three judges’ scorecards. It was a fair reflection of the Ukrainian’s control of the rematch given he set the pace for most of the 12 rounds and was the harder worker, landing more frequently and with greater impact. Fury described his grim-faced demeanour this week as “beast mode” and while his greater focus was evident on a night when there was no showboating, he was unable to make a dent on the extraordinary Usyk. Usyk’s performance confirmed his status as an all-time great and the 37-year-old will now look to become undisputed champion for the second time by toppling IBF champion Daniel Dubois. Fury entered the fight at a fully-clothed 20stones 1lbs, almost four stones heavier than Usyk, and right from the start he took to the centre of the ring, showing more intent to carry the fight to his opponent. Towering over the champion, the Briton spat out his jab but he was also taking shots to the body and by the second round he was being stalked around the ring by Usyk – a theme of the first fight. The pace was being set by Usyk but both fighters were landing in a lively start to the clash with Fury’s jab causing problems. Usyk connected with two big left hands in a fourth round that ebbed and flowed and as the fight approached the halfway stage it was desperately close. Fury staggered the Ukrainian with a short left uppercut and having taken a flurry of blows to his body, he hit back with intent. Unlike their first meeting which saw the Briton suffer the first loss of his career, there was no grandstanding from the challenger. The fifth was the Gypsy King’s best round yet as he imposed his size and power, all while working behind his pinpoint jab, but he was caught several times in the sixth. Fury’s output began to drop and he was being driven backwards with Usyk’s left hand giving him plenty of problems. It was relentless pressure from Usyk, who put together a lovely sequence of shots in the eighth and finished the three minutes by backing Fury up against the ropes. The ninth round was the turning point in May when 36-year-old Fury was saved by the bell and while those dramatics were missing this time, Usyk was showing similar purpose as he continued to build momentum. He swarmed over the bigger man in the 10th but also took shots himself and as the last two rounds arrived it was Fury who needed to do something special to catch the judges’ eyes. A storming final round saw the rivals exchange blows with each having their moments in a high quality finish full of courage and skill. Once again the judges were called upon to separate the two and there could be no complaints as Usyk emerged a conclusive winner on each card to continue his reign as the division’s dominant force. Published: 22/12/2024 by Radio NewsHub

Germany mourns five killed and 200 injured in attack on Christmas market

Germans have mourned the victims of an apparent attack in which authorities say a doctor drove into a busy outdoor Christmas market, killing five people and injuring 200 others. The alleged attack on Friday evening in Magdeburg, about 80 miles west of Berlin, killed a nine-year-old and four adults and injured 41 people badly enough that authorities warned the death toll could rise. Magdeburg marked the tragedy on Saturday with the tolling church bells at 7.04pm, the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people. The driver, a 50-year-old doctor who immigrated from Saudi Arabia in 2006, surrendered to police at the scene. He’s being investigated for five counts of suspected murder and 205 counts of suspected attempted murder, prosecutor Horst Walter Nopens said at a news conference. Among other things, investigators are looking into whether the attack could have been motivated by the suspect’s dissatisfaction with the way Germany treats Saudi refugees, Mr Nopens said. “There is no more peaceful and cheerful place than a Christmas market,” Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. “What a terrible act it is to injure and kill so many people there with such brutality.” Although Mr Nopens mentioned the treatment of Saudi immigrants angle, authorities said on Saturday that they still did not know why the suspect drove his black BMW into the crowded market. Police have not publicly named the suspect, but several German news outlets identified him as Taleb A, withholding his last name in line with privacy laws, and reported that he was a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Describing himself as a former Muslim, the suspect appears to have been an active user of the social media platform X, sharing dozens of tweets and retweets daily focusing on anti-Islam themes, criticising the religion and congratulating Muslims who had left the faith. He also accused German authorities of failing to do enough to combat what he referred to as the “Islamification of Europe”. The violence shocked Germany and Magdeburg, which is the capital of the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, bringing its mayor to the verge of tears and marring the centuries-old German tradition of Christmas markets. It led several other communities to cancel their weekend Christmas markets as a precaution and out of solidarity with Magdeburg’s loss. Berlin kept its many markets open but increased its police presence at them. Germany has suffered a string of extremist attacks in recent years, including a knife attack that killed three people and wounded eight at a festival in the western city of Solingen in August. Friday’s attack came eight years after an Islamic extremist drove a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 13 people and injuring many others. The attacker was killed days later in a shootout in Italy. Mr Scholz and interior minister Nancy Faeser travelled to Magdeburg, where a memorial service took place on Saturday. Ms Faeser ordered flags lowered to half-staff at government buildings across the country. Although many people went to the site with candles to mourn the victims, several hundred far-right protesters gathered in a central square in Magdeburg with a banner that read “remigration”, German news agency dpa reported. Verified bystander footage distributed by dpa showed the suspect’s arrest at a tram stop in the middle of the road. A nearby police officer pointing a handgun at the man shouted at him as he lay prone, his head arched up slightly. Other officers swarmed around the suspect and took him into custody. Thi Linh Chi Nguyen, a 34-year-old manicurist from Vietnam whose salon is in a shopping centre across from the Christmas market, was on the phone during a break when she heard loud bangs that she thought were fireworks. She then saw a car drive through the market at high speed. People screamed and a child was thrown into the air by the car. Shaking as she described what she had witnessed, she recalled seeing the car bursting out of the market and turning right onto Ernst-Reuter-Allee street and then coming to a standstill at the tram stop where the suspect was arrested. The number of injured people was overwhelming. “My husband and I helped them for two hours. He ran back home and grabbed as many blankets as he could find because they didn’t have enough to cover the injured people. And it was so cold,” she said. The market itself was still cordoned off on Saturday with red and white tape and police vans, as armed officers guarded at every entrance. Some thermal security blankets still lay on the street. Published: 22/12/2024 by Radio NewsHub

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