Fury improves to 33-0-1 with KO of Chisora
Tyson Fury easily retained his WBC heavyweight belt by stopping Derek Chisora again thanks to his overwhelming advantage of reach and height Saturday in London..
Referee Victor Loughlin didn’t end the one-sided all-British fight until 10 seconds remained in the 10th round. It could have finished five rounds sooner and nobody could have complained. Not least Chisora, who could hardly see out of his right eye after seven rounds.
Chisora was game and made good starts in the early going with a couple of flush rights to Fury’s face in different rounds. But Fury shrugged them off and inevitably took control with his jab.
The challenger, facing Fury for a third time, couldn’t stop the jab thanks to Fury’s reach advantage.
Fury improved to 33-0-1 with his 24th knockout. He has given Chisora his first (2011), fifth (2014) and 13th losses.
Golf
Viktor Hovland made 10 birdies in a round of 8-under 84to build a three-shot lead in the Hero World Challenge in Nassau, Bhamas. Hovland ran off six birdies on the back nineand — despite a bogey onthe 18th — put himself in position to join tournament host Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of this tournament. Scottie Scheffler, who can go to No. 1 in the world with a win, shot 66 and willplay in the final group with Hovland.
Winter sports
Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde won his second consecutive World Cup down hill race to start the season, winning in Beaver Creek, Colo. Although dealing with an illness all week in training, Kilde powered throughthe challenging Birds of Prey course in a time of 1 minute, 42.09 seconds. It was enough to hold off Marco Odermatt of Switzerland by 0.06 seconds.
•Sofia Goggia of Italy captureda women World Cup downhill race in as many days in Lake Louise, Alberta. Of greater note, she has won thepast four downhills on the Lake Louise course, a streak not seen since the days of Lindsey Vonn. Goggia with stood a late charge by Austria’s Nina Ortlieb, who woundup 0.34 seconds behind. Corinne Suter of Switzerland took third.
• American luger Emily
Sweeney finished second in the women’s World Cup race in Igls, Austria, matching her best finish in five years. Austria’s Madeleine Egle won the event.
Baseball
Arizona signed reliever
Miguel Castro to a $3.5 million, one-year contract that couldbe worth $9.5 million over two seasons. Castro was 5-0with a 4.03 ERA for the Yankees last season.
Auto racing
Formula One confirmed thatthe Chinese Grand Prix will not take place in 2023, makingit the fourth year in a row the race has been canceled because of the corona virus pandemic. Formula One has not visited the Shanghai circuit since 2019 as China pursues a strict policy of local lockdowns, virus tests and entry restrictions during the pandemic, long after other countries on the F1 calendar eased many of their