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Armando Resendiz shocks Caleb Plant: Highlights, round by round analysis
Armando Resendiz shocks Caleb Plant: Highlights, round by round analysis So much for the prospective showdown between Caleb Plant and Jermall Charlo. Armando Resendiz likely derailed that with a shocking split-decision victory over Plant Saturday night in their 12-round fight for the WBA interim super middleweight title. The judges scored it 116-112, 113-115 and 116-112 in favor of Resendiz, who entered the night as a decisive underdog. Charlo had won earlier in the night to set up the possible showdown with Plant, who failed to do his part in the main event. 'He caught me with one overhand right that was pretty good,'' Plant said during an in-ring interview. 'But other than that, nothing really hurt me or stopped me. Disappointed, obviously.'' Resendiz spoke in Spanish, but his beaming smile was easy enough to understand in any language. He was the new champ, albeit with an interim tag. Highlights from Saturday's fight card: The official outcome was a split decision, but boxers' faces told a different story. Resendiz's face look virtually unscathed. Plant's face looked, well, like a mess. Resendiz, a 26-year-old from Mexico, improved to 16-2. Plant, 32, fell to 23-3. Round 1: Armando Resendiz opens by whipping his left jab. 'Mexico, Mexico,'' fans chant. Caleb Plant looks unperturbed. He misses with a right, but swings with it again. Plant connects with a nice left hook, then follows up with a combo. Resendiz's activity flattening before he fires a couple of jabs. Plant answers with a jab and combo. Plant 10, Resendiz 9. Round 2: They joust with jabs. Still waiting on some power. They're circling at the center of the ring. Resendiz lands a couple of body shots. Plant fighting back with his jabs. Dig on into Resendiz's body. Plant punching, but not clear what's landing. Plant 20, Resendiz 18. Round 3: Plant emerges aggressive behind the jab. But Resendiz isn't backing away. Plant lands a left hook to the body and the fighters get tangled before a square-dancing move separates them. (Well, my version of square dancing, anyway.) Resendiz connects with a hard left, drawing blood from Plant. Then he tags Plant with another right. Plant drills the body of Resendiz, who nonetheless looks in control. Plant 29, Resendiz 28. Round 4: Plant opens with a flurry, including a hard left. Resendiz looks undeterred. But he's waiting for the moment rather than creating it. Takes another left from Plant, but it's Plant whose face is bleeding. A nice exchange of punches toward the end of that round. Plant 39, Resendiz 37. Round 5: Resendiz looks very poised as he stalks Plant. Plant landing punches, but Resendiz absorbs then as he moves forward and lands his own punches. Resendiz attacking the body. The left side of Plant's body is bright red, the result of Resendiz's pounding. Plant 48, Resendiz 47. Round 6: Resendiz looks totally unscathed. Plant, no such luck. Resendiz exuding confidence as he fires a jab and targets the body. Plant bobbing on his feet, but not quick enough to avoid Resendiz's body shots. Plant landing jabs as Resendiz digs in with body shots. Resendiz unloading on Plant! A brutal right hook rocked Plant! But he survives the round. Plant 57, Resendiz 57. Round 7: They open by firing jabs, but that's not going to last long. Resendiz smells blood. Resendiz stalking Plant, who tries to hold off Resendiz with his jab. Resendiz finds room to open up. Plant firing but the punches seem to have little effect. Resendiz 67, Plant 66. Round 8: Resendiz connects early, and Plant looks shaky. Resendiz is warned for a second time about a potential head butt. They're wrapping each other up, with Plant looking to minimize the damage. Resendiz shakes loose and batters Plant. Plant looks in real trouble. Resendiz 77, Plant 75. Round 9: Resendiz is under scrutiny for use of the head. The referee has warned him three times, so we'll see if that has any effect on his approach as the round opens. Plant connects with a body shot. Plant landed a left, and Resendiz answers with a flurry of shots. Plant looks gritty, Resendiz looks fresh. He tags Plant with a hard right. Plant firing what look like rubber bullets. Nothing slowing Resendiz, who's on the attack. Resendiz 87, Plant 84. Round 10: Plant fighting on his back foot. Resendiz's punches clearly have taken their toll. Plant lands a hard right, but Resendiz looks unshakable. Plant pot shotting, evidence that he'll do whatever he can do avoid Resendiz's fists. But Resendiz catches up with him and lands more body shots and array of punches. Resendiz 97, Plant 93. Round 11: Plant refusing to open up despite the need for something spectacular. Resendiz looks in control. Now Plant bleeding badly from the right eye. Resendiz delivers a body punch that audibly thuds against Plant's reddened body. Plant lands a solid right late, but waaay too late to matter. Resendiz 107, Plant 102. Round 12: Plant needs a knockout at a minimum, but it's Resendiz who comes out the aggressor. He continues to punish Plant – to the body and the head. Blood trickling from Plant's beaten face. Resendiz unloading heavy punches and Plant has little in response. Duck might be his best strategy. Resendiz 117, Plant 111. Charlo knocked LaManna down three times before the referee halted the super middleweight fight. LaManna hit the canvas in the third, fourth and fifth rounds. After the fifth round, the ringside doctor examined LaManna's battered face and recommended the fight be stopped. The referee obliged – officially, one second into the sixth round. 'I'm back,'' Charlo said. 'I'm back.'' The snapping jab. The powerful right. Combination. Charlo hit LaManna with it all and he looked as formidable as ever. Charlo, 35, improved to 34-0 and indicated he would welcome a fight with Caleb Plant. LaManna, 33, fell to 39-6-1. Round 1: During the introductions, pink letters across Thomas LaManna's white T-shirt read, 'Shock the World.' And it definitely would be a shock to see LaManna upset Charlo, the former middleweight champ. Doesn't look like LaManna has been doing any weightlifting in recent months, or years. But he throws a crisp jab and an overhand right as the action gets underway. Charlo answers with jab that draws blood from LaManna's nose. Boy, those Charlo jabs look solid and quick. Charlo looks very serious. LaManna looks a little nervous with blood on his face as the round ends. Charlo 10, LaManna 9. Round 2: Charlo comes out firing that jab, and LaManna does the same. Charlo attacks the body, then lands another solid jab and LaManna's right eye is starting to swell and the blood continues to dribble. Charlo lands a right. LaManna in cover-up mode. LaManna shakes his head, as if to say he's not hurt. Anyone believe it? Charlo 20, LaManna 18. Round 3: LaManna comes out swinging, which seems to energize Charlo. Charlo lands a right and follows with a couple of lefts. Charlo lands a combo and down goes LaManna! LaManna beats the 8 count with blood trickling from his left eye. Charlo lands another hard right and LaManna is taunting Charlo. LOL. Boy, LaManna's left eye is a bloody mess as the round ends. Charlo 30, LaManna 26. Round 4: LaManna lurches around, seeming unsure if he wants to punch or cover up. Charlo leaning on that jab. More herky-jerky movement from LaManna, who takes a shot from Charlo. Charlo delivers stiff lefts, and LaManna nearly hits the deck before collecting himself. It's ruled a knockdown after review, according to the broadcast. Charlo 40, LaManna 34. Round 5: Charlo tattooing LaManna's with those lighting quick jabs. Follows up with a hard right and down goes LaManna again! He beats the count and moves toward Charlo, Later shakes his head. Charlo smiles, then misses with a big right. LaManna taunts him. Really! Taunts him. But LaManna lands a huge right! Charlo absorbs it without trouble. Charlo 50, LaManna 42. Update: Fight is stopped by doctor's recommendation. Charlo wins by stoppage. Hernandez knocked Davis down in the second round and dominated the 10-round middleweight fight start to finish. All three judges scored the bout 100-89 for Hernandez, the savvy Cuban who won two world championship amateur championships before turning pro. Somehow Davis finished the fight on his feet – Hernandez's first pro opponent to do so. Hernandez, 27, improved his record to 8-0. Davis, 30, dropped to 19-4-1. Round 1: Yoenli Hernandez heads out against Kyrone Davis looking for his eighth consecutive KO victory. Hernandez, looking considerably bigger than his opponent, fires hard early – jabs and rights. Davis hits the canvas because Hernandez tosses him there. 'We're not wrestling,'' says the referee. Hernandez lands two big rights and Davis probably wishes they were wrestling instead of boxing. Davis responds with a couple of jabs but Hernandez dominates the round. Hernandez 10, Davis 9. Round 2: Hernandez backpedals before scoring with a left and then a right. Yet Davis still marching forward. Hernandez showing some caution, leaning on his jab. Now Hernandez opening up again, and down goes Davis! Clobbered with a left. Davis beats the count and the fight resumes with about 30 seconds left in the count. Hernandez slugging away, but Davis survives the round. Hernandez 20, Davis 17. Round 3: Davis comes out stalking, oddly enough. Wasn't this guy just on the canvas? Indeed, he was. Hernandez punishes Davis with a couple of lefts and now Davis is backpedaling. Hernandez lands another hard right and Davis bounces off the ropes. Davis lands a right, but Hernandez keeps moving forward and closes with a flurry. Hernandez 30, Davis 26. Round 4: Davis stalks, and he pays the price. But the referee warns Hernandez for a shoulder strike. He seems to only need his fists. Hernandez now tagging Davis with jabs, then attacks Davis' body. Hernandez 40, Davis 35. Round 5: Hernandez swarms almost from the sound of the bell. Just an incredible variety of punches – jabs, straights, uppercuts, body shots. You name it, he's throwing it – and landing it. Hernandez leaning up against the ropes and defends with a high guard before pouncing. Connects with a hard right and another. Hernandez 50, Davis 44. Round 6: Davis showing surprising bounce in his feet but can't convert that energy into landed punches. Davis is the aggressor and has Hernandez on the ropes. Davis lands two hard rights. But Hernandez rallies with uppercuts and another hard right. Head snapping left. Hernandez 60, Davis 53. Round 7: Davis talking trash midway through the round. What could he possibly be saying? 'Why haven't you knocked me out yet?'' Davis then lets his left fist do the talking. It lands hard. But not as hard as Hernandez's right now. Hernandez continues to dominate and looks in control. Hernandez 70, Davis 62. Round 8: Davis still swinging, and kind of remarkable he's still on his feet, much less throwing with some authority. Hernandez's punches still look so crisp. Davis shows life, and Hernandez takes it away with an array of punches. Hernandez 80, Davis 71. Round 9: Hernandez dancing and showboating. Hey, why not? It's Vegas. Then he pummels Davis with a big right. Lands a big right uppercut. Davis fighting back and with some effectiveness. But the exchanges end with Hernandez doing the swinging and landing, and Davis is bleeding from the mouth. Hernandez 90, Davis 80. Round 10: Davis clearly needs a knockout, but he's in no hurry to throw the Hail Marys. Hernandez waves on Davis and unleashes big rights. Davis accepts the invitation and meets Hernandez on the ropes. But Hernandez bounces away before whaling away with right hands. More showboating from Hernandez, who wants the knockout. Lands another vicious right, but Davis not going down. Hernandez 100, Davis 89. Sporting unbeaten records, Lucero and Valenzuela came out swinging. But only one landed punches with ferocity in the super middleweight fight. Lucero dropped Valenzuela with a thunderous right in the second round. Valenzuela got back on his feet and the fight resumed, but Lucero quickly smothered him with a barrage of punches and the referee halted the super middleweight fight at 2:57 of the second round. Lucero, the 26-year-old from Mexico, won by knockout for the sixth consecutive fight and improved to 17-0. Valenzuela, a 28-year-old from Mexico, dropped to 23-1. Round 1: Now underway, a battle of unbeatens, Isaac Lucero (16-0) vs. Omar Valenzuela (23-0). The fighters trade solid rights, throwing caution to the wind. Lucero lands another stiff right and seems to stun Valenzuela. Lucero lands more punches and Valenzuela goes down. But it's no knockdown after the referee rules the punch hit Valenzuela in the back of the head. Lucero 10, Valenzuela 9. Round 2: Both fighters come out swinging, with Valenzuela surprisingly active considering he was on the canvas at the end of Round 1. Valenzuela smothering Lucero. Lucero fights back, in particular with an uppercut. Valenzuela continues to attack Lucero's body. Down goes Valenzuela! This time it's legit, a rocket right hand. Facing a barrage of Lucero punches, Valenzuela is trying to survive. But it's too late. The ref halts the right. Lucero wins by TKO! Moton, the highly touted Floyd Mayweather protégé, beat Mastrapa by unanimous decision in the eight-round lightweight fight, according to The Ring. Moton, 18-year-old from Las Vegas, improved to 8-0. It was only the second time in eight fights he has not won by stoppage. Mastrapa, a 28-year-old from Cuba, fell to 4-2-1. Cangelosi preserved his unblemished record with a victory over Figueroa by majority decision in their eight-round super welterweight fight, according to BoxRec. Cangelosi, a 27-year-old from Italy, improved to 11-0. Figueroa, a 34-year-old from Puerto Rico, fell to 13-3. John Easter def. Andres Martinez by unanimous decision Easter stayed unbeaten with a victory over Martinez by unanimous decision in the six-round super middleweight bout, according to Easter, a 22-year-old from Las Vegas, improved to 9-0. Martinez, a 30-year-old from Equatorial Guinea, fell to 5-4-1. Caleb Plant vs. Armando Resendiz: Time, PPV, streaming for fight The highly anticipated bout between Caleb Plant and Jose Armando Resendiz will take place on Saturday, May 31 and can be watched on Prime Video. Date: Saturday, May 31, 2025 Saturday, May 31, 2025 Time: 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT Location: Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada TV: N/A N/A Streaming: Prime Video Stream Plant vs. Resendiz with Amazon Prime
USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Caleb Plant vs. Armando Resendiz live updates: Time, streaming for full card
Caleb Plant vs. Armando Resendiz live updates: Time, streaming for full card Caleb Plant and Jermall Charlo are one step away from securing a tantalizing showdown. But first, two hurdles must be cleared Saturday night. Plant must defeat Jose Resendiz in the main event, a super middleweight bout scheduled for 12 rounds with Plant's interim WBA world super middleweight title on the line. Charlo, a former two-division champion, must beat Thomas LaManna in the co-main event, a super middleweight bout scheduled for 10 rounds. It's a good bet the favorites will prevail. In September, the 32-year-old Plant bounced back from a loss to David Benavidez with a thrilling ninth-round TKO victory over Trevor McCumby. His upcoming opponent, the 26-year-old Resendiz, has yet to beat anyone of Plant's caliber. The 35-year-old Charlo is 33-0 with 22 KOs and will be fighting for the first time in 18 months. Barring a nasty case of ring rust, he should be safe. His upcoming opponent, the 33-year-old LaManna, has won nine straight fights, including six by knockout. But none of those fighters had skills that matches Charlo's. Caleb Plant vs. Armando Resendiz: Time, PPV, streaming for fight The highly anticipated bout between Caleb Plant and Jose Armando Resendiz will take place on Saturday, May 31 and can be watched on Prime Video. Date: Saturday, May 31, 2025 Saturday, May 31, 2025 Time: 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT Location: Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada TV: N/A N/A Streaming: Prime Video Stream Plant vs. Resendiz with Amazon Prime
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3 days ago
- General
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‘Tales from the Dawn-lit Mountains': Observant and deeply empathetic stories from Arunachal Pradesh
'I wanted to write a book that entertains people while educating and informing them about the landscapes, culture, myths, and quiet philosophies embedded in the lives of the people from Arunachal Pradesh,' said Subi Taba in one of our exchanges. True to her maxim, the ten tales about the dawn-lit mountains of Arunachal Pradesh become an excursion into the volatile yet extraordinary lives lived on the margins of time and space. These stories reiterate that the co-existence of man and nature is as essential as it is primitive. Any attempt to disrupt this equilibrium creates a cleft, insurmountable and sometimes, irreversible. The people of the hinterland For Taba, the stories included in the collection Tales from the Dawn-lit Mountains have emerged out of longing. The fondness for home, elders and community tie most of the stories together. Yet, they retain their individuality. In the story, 'A Night with the Tiger,' Taba hints at the animosity of harming nature quite early on, replaying the same theme in many other stories where nature eventually haunts the hunter. What starts off as surreal becomes believable because of the foretelling of elders. At once, therefore, the story conjures up a past that relies on the community's knowledge of omens and blessings. A man-tiger, unlikely as it might be, morphs into a metaphor for man's corrupting grasp on the non-human and the consequences thereof. Stories such as 'Curse of the High Priest', 'Plant, Pig and Woman,' and 'Spirit of the Forest' further the element of the uncanny, explaining Taba's assertion that in order to make the fantastical familiar, she has to treat it with the 'same emotional seriousness as the real.' The narrative here is also an extension of the Indigenous worldviews that do not distinguish between the mythic and the tangible. Taba's insistence that these stories 'honour the logic of its own world' is heightened when the curse of a senior priest materialises, destroying a family, when the souls of a pig and a plant give a tortured woman company, or when the spirit of the forest conspires to kill a greedy capitalist. The stories deal with temporality non-linearly. While the primordial world shares space with WhatsApp-driven aspects of modernity, its momentum is limited by the temporal distance it shares with the present. The characters inhabiting these liminal spaces have predestined fates and, despite exerting their agencies or, as the author states, 'finding small but powerful moments of resistance, introspection, and even transformation', are frozen in karmic time. Stories which consistently carry the relevance of fates are 'The Lost Village,' 'Love and Longing in Seijosa,' and 'A Man from China.' Here, the lives of the characters come full circle at moments of crisis. It is fate working for the girl who spends years looking for the remaining pieces of a story her grandmother told her as a child, and fate indeed when a father's longing manifests his daughter's visit after years of estrangement, but only when it is too late. Nostalgia for a bygone era is indeed an overarching theme. Reminiscence about the past is found especially in the stories, 'The Last Donyi-polo Priest' and 'Macabre Memories of a Head-hunter.' The protagonists' experientiality, narrated in a modern world, provides incisive glimpses into the trajectories societies have taken through the course of Arunachal's history. Beheading defeated warriors was the norm to mark victory in most tribal societies which changed with the arrival of Christianity. Similarly, shamanic practices of fortune-telling came to a halt after education became common. Such changes altered discourses about what was considered permissible and thereafter forbidden. Again, tales like 'The Cobra Man' and 'Love and Longing in Seijosa' are also remarkable for their conservational appeal. As the writer confirms, her job as an agricultural officer helped her shape the rather purposeful discourse in these tales. The poetics and politics Subi Taba is firstly, a poet. Her imagination is as vivid as her understanding of the natural world she describes. 'It comes naturally to me because I like to think about my story scenes in images, in sounds, and in sensory rhythms. I enjoy the art of fashioning words in different forms and styles. I think being a sensitive and emotional person helps me think poetically. I like to associate the emotions of the characters of my stories to a certain musicality. And I believe the landscapes I write about – lush, haunting, untamed – demand a poetic response,' she makes her poetry accessible. It is interesting to see how the landscapes of communal life transform into lingering images, awestruck and appealing throughout the narrative. The desperate need to belong is a primary concern, as seen in the way the characters try to demarcate their territories within the hinterlands that are bountiful and ensnaring. Taba's stylistics is also equally detailed and highly sonorous – much like the rivers Kameng and Siang that occupy centrality in her prose. No part of her narrative is repetitive. Even when she describes the most mundane occurrence, her perceptive poetry weaves subtle imageries around these events. In her expertise as the beholder of stories paramount in the hinterlands, Taba laces a tapestry of solidarity and understanding. There are no villains in these tales, only survivors with pivotal struggles. In the undercurrent of these scenic descriptions are also evident traces of her politics and what it means to occupy space tormented by wants of a rapidly changing society. 'Politics is never absent in a place like Arunachal Pradesh – it's written into the land, the rivers, even the silence,' the writer admits. The collective struggle of the populace, reflected by the commonality of their existence, carries questions of identity, religion and ecological degradation- questions that need thorough political reasoning as answers. The co-existence of the new with the old order of mankind that Taba employs in her plots seamlessly blends into one another, at times, also tearing into the fabric of time. In her acknowledgement, Taba notes that she has taken 'creative liberties to fictionalise glimpses and layers of cultural history, familial ties, ethnographic identity, symbolism of animals, geopolitical transition, life's mundanity, nature and supernatural beliefs' found amongst the tribal populace of the state. Yet, how continuous these liberties are, one is bound to wonder, for they fit into the narrative without making the real obscure. Taba's search for the stories relied on her studying even 'the shape of the clouds and the hills, and the vegetation' of certain villages. One can only expect a writer of her calibre to be observant and deeply emphatetic – just like the characters she talks about. In fact, these tales appear to be the beginning of a rather promising literary career. Taba hopes that in time, her work would expand to explore 'the intersection of folklore, shamanism, and oral traditions – but on a much larger canvas.' There is no doubt that a work like that will give readers another set of perspectival glances into lives less understood.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
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Caleb Plant vs. Jose Armando Resendiz: How to watch, full fight card and more
If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission. Pricing and availability subject to change. Caleb Plant will face Jose Armando Resendiz in the ring this weekend, here's how to watch. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) This Saturday's boxing match between Caleb Plant and Jose Armando Resendiz is personal: the two men are former sparring partners, and Plant will be defending his WBA interim super middleweight champion title. The fight in Las Vegas, at the Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay, will also feature a co-main event between undefeated former two-division champion Jermall Charlo and Thomas LaManna. These are just two bouts on an extremely full fight card this Saturday; here's how to watch the whole event, and see who else is on the fight card in Las Vegas. Advertisement How to watch the Plant vs. Resendiz fight: Date: Saturday, May 31 Start time: event begins at 8 p.m. ET Fight time (approximate): main card fights begin at 11 p.m. ET Location: Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada TV channel/streaming: Prime Video When is the Plant vs. Resendiz fight ? Caleb Plant will fight Armando Resendiz for the interim WBA super middleweight title on Saturday, May 31. The undercard fights begin at 8 p.m. with the main event expected to start around midnight. What channel is the Plant vs. Resendiz on? Plant vs. Resendiz will air on Prime Video. Where to watch the Plant vs. Resendiz: Stream the Plant vs. Resendiz fight on Prime Video Amazon Prime Video The Plant vs. Resendiz fight is broadcast exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. On top of Amazon Prime Video, an Amazon Prime subscription includes free shipping, exclusive deals, access to the Prime Day sale event, Amazon Music, a year of free GrubHub+ and more. A standard Amazon Prime subscription is $15 monthly or $139 annually, but discounts are available for students and those on qualified government assistance. You can try Amazon Prime free for 30 days. $15/month at Prime Video Full fight card for Caleb Plant vs. Armando Resendiz:
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
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Howmet needs to ramp engine parts production as jet output rises, CEO says
(Reuters) -Howmet Aerospace will need to produce more parts this year for engines used in Boeing and Airbus narrowbody jets, as the planemakers ramp up output and the need for spares grows, the parts supplier's CEO John Plant said on Friday. Plant's comments come a day after Boeing expressed optimism about increasing the production of the best-selling 737 MAX jets to 42 a month. The move could benefit players such as Howmet, one of Boeing's biggest suppliers. However, supply chain challenges continue to weigh on the industry as Boeing and Airbus manufacture more jets, with no one particular bottleneck to blame. Howmet also expects demand for its fasteners to rise, with global inventory running low after a fire at an SPS Technologies factory in Pennsylvania in February destroyed an important source of capacity. "There's lots more to bid and we've got three customers already where we have production orders for as soon as we can make them," Plant said at a Bernstein conference. He also acknowledged a force majeure letter on tariffs sent to customers in April, which was first reported by Reuters. Plant said the letter helped get new agreements in place to cover exposure risk in case of an emergency. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
