Sentences with phrase «now former champion»
A gargantuan underdog against the greatest women's fighter roaming the planet, Holly Holm flipped the script and absolutely demolished Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 on Saturday night, evaporating the now former champion's mystique with a beautiful, perfectly - placed head kick.
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Holmes, the former heavyweight champion (1978 to» 85) who's now a 46 - year - old grandfather, announced his most recent retirement, his eighth by our count, on Father's Day (Scorecard, June 3), right after an eighth - round knockout of Anthony Willis in Bay St. Louis, Miss..
Former Red Devils goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar — who now works for the Eredivisie champions — arrived at Carrington on Tuesday to thrash out a deal for the # 18m defender.
It now became a struggle between old pro Nichols, 34, winner of a PGA Championship and seven other tournaments, and 28 - year - old Harris, whom everybody calls Junior, a former U.S. Amateur champion but a relative unknown and a non-winner on the pro tour.
Aston Villa «s signing of highly - rated Spanish youngster Adama Traore from reigning Liga BBVA champions Barcelona now means there is an entire XI of former players from the Catalan giants playing in the Barclays Premier League.
That was the biggest impressions after following three of the best doing it right now, and three former Players Champions.
According to the Daily Express, the Champions League finalists are extremely keen on former Liverpool man Alonso, for whom Serie A is now the only «major league» missing off his resume — having played in Spain, England and Germany.
The former England captain has been Chelsea's Mr Reliable for a long time now, so it was only fitting that Terry would be the one to seal Chelsea's first Champions League triumph in Moscow in 2008.
Former Olympic track champion Michael Johnson, who now works as a sports consultant, has met with Freddy several times to discuss the coming storm.
Ozil and now Sanchez see their former team win the Champions league.
Sugar Ray Leonard, who had won the Olympic light welterweight gold medal in Montreal in 1976 and was now WBC welterweight champion, had come back to that city to defend his title against the former lightweight champion of the world, Roberto Duran.
But the chances of Arsenal being crowned champions of England next May could now be looking slimmer after Man City followed on from the heavy league win over West Brom with an outstanding European victory over Pep's former club.
The young defender will now take up working under former Real Madrid defender Aitor Karanka, who has played key roles in winning three Champions League winners medals previously at centre - back, and may well prove to be a big influence in guiding the youngster as he looks to make progress.
Mike LayPort, who has the distinction of being the fastest roller skater in America, lives in a 22 - room mansion off Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, with (above, in descending order) his father, Lee, a realtor who in the mid -»40s converted the old Mack Sennett studio into a roller rink known as the Palace Arena; his mother, Vivian: his brother, Patrick, a former senior men's four - mile - relay roller - skating champion who now manages the family gift shop; Patrick's wife, Carolyn, and their children, Kathleen and Pat; his wife Donna, an artistic (or figure) roller skater; and Sam, a Labrador retriever.
We all expected the French international to be the new first choice centre forward but he has been playing out wide up until now, but against the German champions the former Lyon star will start in the centre forward position, although whether he will be up there on his own with Ozil on one side and Welbeck on the other or whether the Gunners try a strike pairing remains to be seen.
Now while I do understand that the former Southampton youngster is not any speedster either, I feel he is better equiped to deal with the frontline of the European champions.
WWE didn't just find themselves a tournament winner, but they also crowned Perkins the Cruiserweight Champion, and now he'll face his first challenger in the first one - on - one cruiserweight match on RAW: former WWE tag team champion and now - desperate veteran, Brian Kendrick.
The former FC Porto and Atletico Madrid star has now revealed that he rejected a club in the Champions League to sign for United.
Earlier this summer there were reports that the former Bundesliga champions wanted to sign Kagawa, but those suggestions have cooled and now Atletico Madrid are reported to be interested in him.
It is now up to the midfielder to prove that the former English and European champions were right in paying all that money to recruit him.
That result meant that champions Bayern Munich, now under the auspices of veteran coach Jupp Heynckes — the former Real Madrid boss» fourth stint at the helm of Germany's most successful club — would draw level on points with Dortmund if they could overcome Hamburg in the Saturday evening game.
The Champions League winner was initially tipped to make his move to Old Trafford, but it now seems Chelsea have the advantage after the former opted to sign Romelu Lukaku from Everton instead.
The former Barcelona coach used last season to understand the league and this term he has been prolific, with City looking amongst the favourites for the Champions League now that the French football champions PSG are out of the Champions League now that the French football champions PSG are out of the champions PSG are out of the equation.
He will now surely link up with former Real forward Alvaro Morata at the Italian Champions.
Now we shall see if this is true, because former champions of England, Manchester City are not expecting to pay the $ 40m which would release the Chilean from his contract at the Nou Camp.
He has missed the last three league games of the former Nigeria league champions, but he is now fully fit and will travel out with the rest of the squad later tonight ahead of their Saturday game against Bidvest Wits FC.
Britain's hopes for a men's 60m medal now rest on former world indoor champion Dwain Chambers, who won silver behind Dasaolu at the world indoor trials in Sheffield, and Richard Kilty, the UK indoor bronze medallist.
It has now been confirmed that former champions of England, Chelsea are keen on signing James Rodriguez, according to Sport.
We're not supposed to remember anything about Chris Christie circa 2011, because then we'd have to reconcile his current campaign bluster with many other now - inconvenient positions, like his former, much - praised tolerance for Muslims, his support of gun regulation and his championing of women's reproductive rights.
On Wednesday, two former Super Bowl champions — Troy Aikman and John Lynch, now Fox Sports broadcasters — contended the league has more work to do.
Civil rights groups and Assembly Democrats are rushing to defend AG Eric Schneiderman's right to fight for the prisoner counting law he championed while serving in the Senate that is now the subject of a lawsuit filed by some of his former Republican colleagues.
Former Representative Jay Dickey (R — AR), who championed the 1996 amendment, has publicly reversed his position and now lobbies for more research on gun violence.
Boxing may be having a moment in the fitness world right now, but Aerospace co-founder and former champion boxer Michael Olajide has been promoting its benefits for years.
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A former greens keeper, now, about to become the Masters champion.
A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion.
Strathclyde Police said they now know the 39 - year - old former world champion, his son Johnny, and two family friends died in the aircraft which burst into flames in -LSB-...]
It was also in 1973 when former Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion Bobby Riggs, now 55 years of age, challenged Jean to a televised exhibition match to prove that a retired senior citizen could beat the world's number 1 female player.
One should further note that Tom Loveless, a former Harvard policy professor and now senior fellow at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, has produced direct criticism of the core elements in Green's argument (as condensed in her New York Times Magazine piece), namely her assertion that Japan's success in math performance is due to its embracing the pedagogical approaches she champions, while America's relatively poor results stem from our clinging to the outmoded models she dislikes.
The Republicans who now control the South Carolina House chose a highly symbolic target last month in their quest to pay for local property - tax relief: They killed the cornerstones of a 1984 school - reform program championed by former Gov. Richard W. Riley, now the U.S. Secretary of Education.
The school was able to clear out a former metal shop, which now proudly bears the sign Rams Athletic Center: Play like a champion today.
Howard Fuller, the lifelong civil rights activist, former Black Panther, and now staunch champion of school choice, once offered in a speech: «CMOs, EMOs... I'm for all them O's.
Fellows is a multi-time former champion driver, motorsports ambassador, driving school principal, and now key figure at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, site of this week's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race.
Now Britain badly needed a new avant - garde art movement to go beyond familiar shock tactics, said Gregor Muir, former champion of the YBAs and director of the renowned Institute of Contemporary Arts, in a passionate plea for unknown artists to be allowed to create a true subculture away from the art market of the ultra-rich and celebrity retrospectives.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney, now a GOP presidential candidate, championed RGGI in 2005, when it was in its early stages.
Our lawyer, Ken Doane, is a former insurance defense attorney who now serves to champion the rights of accident victims.
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