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Edinburgh Reporter
5 days ago
- Sport
- Edinburgh Reporter
Fourth round title defeat for ‘Lightning' Lee McGregor in Glasgow
Edinburgh boxer ''Lightning' Lee McGregor lost to Glasgow's Nathaniel Collins in an all-Scottish featherweight fight at the Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday night. The stoppage came at 1:45 of the fourth round when referee Mark Lyson called a halt to the match after former European, British, and Commonwealth bantamweight champion McGregor was knocked down for the third time in that round. McGregor (15-2-1, 11 KOs) landed a superb right hook in the second round that had Collins pinned against the ropes. But 'The Nightmare' responded and within 20-seconds of the bell to start the fourth McGregor had been knocked down twice. On both occasions he took an eight count but when he went down for the third time the contest was ended and Collins claimed the vacant WBC silver featherweight title. Post fight Collins said: 'One year ago, in two days, I was lying in a hospital bed and didn't know if I was going to box again, so to say I would put on a perfomance of a lifetime in front of these people? 'I would have laughed, can't explain it in words. I'm a world-class boxer and can punch. 'America, Riyadh, wherever, I'd have done the same to [WBC world champion] Stephen Fulton,' Like this: Like Related
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Carlos Prates Predicts First UFC Champion From The Fighting Nerds
Carlos Prates' (21-6) UFC Kansas City fight with Ian Machado Garry (15-1) wasn't the initial plan, but it might be an even better situation for "The Nightmare." Prates had been planned for a UFC 314 welterweight matchup with Geoff Neal in Miami. The booking was scrapped when Neal went down due to an injury. Prates reflected on receiving the news during an interview with Athlon Sports. Advertisement "Bro, I was a little bit angry," Prates admitted. "Like mad, but not with Geoff Neal, but about the situation. I was expecting to fight really soon." Many fans were surprised that Garry stepped up on short notice to face Prates in the main event of a "UFC Fight Night" card. When asked if Garry's willingness to fight on short notice surprised him, Prates said he wasn't as shocked as the fans were. "Not really," Prates said. "Probably they offered really big money to him, and they talked already. He was two days thinking about the fight before accepting the fight. I was expecting it already. I knew UFC asked him to fight me, and then they offered him more money, and he accepted." Carlos Prates is a rising UFC welterweight contender, training under The Fighting Nerds.(via Zuffa LLC) Things appeared to be cordial between Prates and Garry, but the Irishman recently called his upcoming opponent a "quitter." Prates was asked if he believes Garry is simply trying to hype up the fight. Advertisement "I think so," Prates said. "Even he's not believing about what he's saying. He's just trying to hype the fight and things like that." Prates is a part of one of the fastest-rising MMA gyms, The Fighting Nerds. Several names on the team have garnered success under the UFC banner. Prates said it isn't hard to figure out why The Fighting Nerds are on a roll. "I think it's no secret to anyone," Prates said. "Just hard work, training hard, be a really good friend, try to help each other, and work hard, bro. Every [expletive] day we go to the gym and work hard." There are a slew of top fighters on the team, such as Prates, Caio Borralho, Jean Silva, and Mauricio Ruffy. "The Nightmare" revealed his pick for who will be the first UFC champion out of The Fighting Nerds. Advertisement "I think Caio," Prates said. "Caio is a different kind of guy. He's really, really, really good on his striking. Really, really good on the ground. I think Caio's going to be the first champ." Borralho has been angling for an interim UFC middleweight title fight against Khamzat Chimaev amid injury rumors surrounding Dricus du Plessis. Since du Plessis has denied claims that he is injured, Prates isn't so sure that Borralho will be fighting Chimaev next. "I wish so much," Prates said. "I really want that fight because, for me, Caio is the most difficult fighter to fight Khamzat Chimaev, but I heard something about du Plessis is going to be ready to fight in October. "So, I think it's not going to happen, probably because Khamzat said he's going to fight somebody only for interim belt. So, if [du Plessis] is back in October, UFC probably doesn't want to make an interim belt." Advertisement Going into UFC Kansas City, Prates is the No. 13-ranked UFC welterweight. He can climb up several spots with a win over the No. 7-ranked Garry on Saturday. Could a title shot potentially loom for Prates if he emerges victorious? "I think so; it depends the way I beat Ian Garry, but for sure," Prates said. "Maybe with just one more fight, and then I go to the title." Prates believes he can get a finish as the fight goes into deep waters. He even has an idea of how he can get there when the Octagon door closes. "I'm going to hurt him; I'm going to punish him and make him give up the fight," Prates said. "I'm going to make him give the fight to me, and then I'm going to knock him out." Related: Brock Lesnar and Dana White Dodge Final Blow in Legal Fight Over UFC 200
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Ghost Boy' Review: Rodney Ascher's Doc Is An Extraordinary Story Of Human Resilience
Like Alexandre O. Philippe, Rodney Ascher is a director who pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do, something he made abundantly clear with his 2012 film Room 237. Named after the mysterious hotel suite in The Shining, this festival favorite gave a platform to some of the most bizarre readings of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror imaginable. The theories raised ranged from the esoteric to the ridiculous, but Ascher's straightforward, non-judgmental approach proved surprisingly effective; though it has long been debunked, the fanciful thought that Kubrick made the film to exorcize his guilt about faking the moon landing footage in 1969 is enticing and still hard to shake off. Ghost Boy contains some of that, being such an unbelievable true story that it's almost impossible not to wonder how such a thing can happen, and just how many people have been affected by it: in very real terms, it's the movie equivalent of someone walking over your grave. But, more significantly, it's a companion piece to 2015's The Nightmare, Ascher's feature-length follow-up to Room 237. Mixing traditional doc methods with recreations and creepy genre-movie inflections, that film provided an unsettling exploration of sleep paralysis, a condition in which the mind is wide awake, but the body is frozen. More from Deadline SXSW 2025: All Of Deadline's Movie Reviews 'Another Simple Favor' Review: Blake Lively & Anna Kendrick Reunite In Paul Feig's Italian Murder Mystery Sequel - SXSW Do Axe Throwing, Pickleball & Bowling Give Regional Theater Chains An Edge? - SXSW Anyone alarmed by that proposition will probably want to give Ascher's latest film a wide berth, since it tells the story of Martin Pistorius, South African author of the 2011 memoir Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body. Narrated entirely by text-to-voice software — a device that Ascher sets up quite ingeniously by focusing on the excruciating silence around Pistorius as he laboriously taps away his opening comments on a laptop in a film studio — the film is literally the book come to life, starting with the strange events of 1987 that took a terrifying turn. Just as he lost his voice, Pistorius lost all memories of his childhood after falling, very gradually, into a waking coma that lasted 12 years. He recalls the family dog Pookie, his precocious gift for electronics, and his fierce protection of his 'Lego-filled kingdom', but these are all things he learned after coming back from the abyss. This is no exaggeration; Pistorius constantly compares his locked-in condition to being trapped underwater and likens his gradual reawakening to a deep-sea diver finally coming up for air. Thankfully, Pistorius is something of a poet, and his descriptions of being 'lost in the infinity of time' — measuring the passing hours in terms of day and night, and the rituals of his care routine — are as eloquent as they are sobering. He also has a great sense of humor, saying that by the time he was consigned to a wheelchair, 'I resembled a pot plant, something to be given water and left in a corner.' That Pistorius can laugh about anything at all is a minor miracle in itself, knowing that his condition almost drove his mother to a nervous breakdown and recalling her saying — to his face — 'You must die. You have to die.' The reverse of Benjamin Ree's recent Oscar near-miss The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Ghost Boy goes on to explore the bizarre phenomenon of being an eyewitness to one's own life, with Pistorius learning about adolescence and adulthood as an alien would, by observation rather an experience ('It was as if a boy had died,' he says, 'and then I remembered that he had'). He also learned a lot about human cruelty, after being left in care homes where he was force-fed, pinched, slapped and, it is suggested, a whole lot worse. At an ambitious 95 minutes, Ghost Boy tends to lag in places, but both director and narrator are aware of their story's potential to get stuck in a groove, and both are there to pick up the slack whenever it's needed. Like all of Ascher's films (notably 2021's A Glitch in the Matrix), it manages to humanize the unthinkable, and its subject will continue to haunt you long after the closing credits. It also sets up a killer punchline, involving a showdown with Barney the Dinosaur at Universal Studios in Florida. How could anyone be mad at Barney, you might wonder? This extraordinary story will tell you exactly why. Title: Ghost BoyFestival: SXSW (Visions)Director: Rodney AscherSales agent: CAARunning time: 1 hr 35 mins Best of Deadline Broadway's 2024-2025 Season: 'Redwood' & All Of Deadline's Reviews Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Winners Through The Years Deadline Studio At Sundance Film Festival Photo Gallery: Dylan O'Brien, Ayo Edebiri, Jennifer Lopez, Lily Gladstone, Benedict Cumberbatch & More
USA Today
05-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Kamaru Usman: Welterweight has a plethora of contenders, but 'I'm still a bigger name than all of them'
Kamaru Usman isn't ruling himself out of the UFC welterweight title race. Belal Muhammad defends his welterweight title against Jack Della Maddalena in the UFC 315 headliner May 10 in Montreal. Shavkat Rakhmonov is waiting in the wings, and ex-champ Leon Edwards battles Sean Brady in the UFC Fight Night 255 headliner March 22 in London. Muhammad expressed interest in a potential move up to middleweight to challenge champion Dricus Du Plessis, but Usman (20-4 MMA, 15-3 UFC) thinks he still has plenty of work to do at welterweight. 'If Belal wants to go up and fight DDP, then he vacates the title,' Usman said on his 'Pound 4 Pound' podcast with Henry Cejudo. 'Who cares? He hasn't gone through the division to say, 'Hey, I want double straps.' No one cares, and listen, this is not me trying to hate or say anything negative about him. If he wants to do that, that's fine. He can do that, but there's a plethora of guys there. 'There's all these new guys coming up. You've got JDM, you've got Sean Brady, you've got Joaquin Buckley, you've got Ian Garry if he's able to get back to the winning column. Don't forget, Geoff Neal is on that shortlist as well, you've got 'The Nightmare' Carlos Prates is on his way up. You've got (Michael) Morlaes who will be fighting (Gilbert) Burns soon. So, there's guys coming that you haven't really gone through the division.' Former UFC 170-pound champion Usman is on a three-fight losing skid, but wouldn't be surprised if one win resulted in him leapfrogging everyone else. 'Where does that leave me? With every one of those guys that I just mentioned, I'm still a bigger name than every one of them,' Usman continued. 'And this is not me being any way, I'm still a bigger name than all of them. 'I'm still there in the top three of the division. I go in and I beat up somebody – from the company's perspective, from my perspective, for our champion's perspective, whoever has the belt at that time, I think we all know who the right pick is to fight for that title.'
