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Due to the recent ruling in the Diego Pavia case, the season that Woods spent playing junior college does not count against his five years of eligibility.

From Los Angeles Times

“A lot of our kids go to the same school or they’re playing in the same sports leagues, or against each other in the school teams.”

From Los Angeles Times

It was Paul's heaviest recorded weight, 3lb more than for his fight against Mike Tyson last year.

From BBC

Joshua has comfortably made similar weights before, including for both fights against generational great Oleksandr Usyk.

From BBC

Briton Caroline Dubois smiled her way to the stage as she also made weight for her WBC lightweight world title defence against Italy's Camilla Panatta.

From BBC