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Unfortunate circumstances: 12 unforeseen injuries that ended UFC main events

Unfortunate circumstances: 12 unforeseen injuries that ended UFC main events

For the first time in UFC history, back-to-back main events have ended with a “TKO due to injury” designation.

First, it was UFC on ABC 3, where Brian Ortega suffered a shoulder injury upon his escape from a Yair Rodriguez submission attempt. One week later, Tom Aspinall suffered a knee injury that ended his UFC Fight Night 208 main event vs. Curtis Blaydes in premature fashion.

While the term “freak injury” might not be appropriate to use when discussing a sport that is inherently dangerous, a dozen have ended in unforeseen injuries – broken legs, separated shoulders, eye pokes, etc. – that don’t typically come in the sequence of MMA combat.

Scroll below to see a chronology of UFC main events that ended in that nature.

Note: Injuries sustained on a TKO due to strikes or tapout due to a submission are not included, nor are retirements on the stool due to extended fight damage or exhaustion. Laceration-based stoppages also are not included since they come as an intentional result of the opposition’s attack.

UFC 90: Patrick Cote suffers knee injury vs. Anderson Silva

CHICAGO- OCTOBER 25: Anderson Silva (L) wrestles with Patrick Cote in the Middleweight Title Bout at UFC’s Ultimate Fight Night at Allstate Arena on October 25, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Date: Oct. 25, 2008
Location: Chicago
Result: Anderson Silva def. Patrick Cote via TKO (injury) – Round 3, 0:39
Injury: All was going well for Patrick Cote against one of the future all-time greats until it wasn’t. One of the better performances anyone has put on against Anderson Silva ended with Cote holding his knee, down on the canvas due to a torn ACL.

UFC 163: Chan Sung Jung dislocates shoulder vs. Jose Aldo

Aug 3, 2013; Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Jose Aldo (red gloves) fights Chan Sung Jung (blue gloves) during UFC 163 at HSBC Arena. Mandatory Credit: Jason Silva-USA TODAY Sports

Date: Aug. 3, 2013
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Result: Jose Aldo def. Chan Sung Jung via TKO (strikes) – Round 4, 2:00
Injury: Shoulder dislocations happen in MMA, but none perhaps in a bigger moment than Chan Sung Jung’s long-awaited first UFC title fight. Midway through Round 4, Jung’s shoulder came out of its socket after a punch attempt. While the TKO win for Jose Aldo was ruled to have come from follow-up strikes, the shoulder dislocation was the reason for Jung’s initial retreat – he tried to lodge it back into place – and subsequent cover-up. The injury was serious enough that Jung needed surgery. He tore it again in 2021.

UFC 168: Anderson Silva breaks leg vs. Chris Weidman

Chris Weidman vs. Anderson Silva, UFC 168

Date: Dec. 28, 2013
Location: Las Vegas
Result: Chris Weidman def. Anderson Silva via TKO (injury) – Round 2, 1:16
Injury: In one of the most grotesque and high-profile injuries in MMA history, Anderson Silva snapped his leg. A result of great defensive technique from Chris Weidman, a leg kick from “The Spider” backfired in horrific fashion. Silva’s leg shattered; he broke his tibia and fibula.

UFC Fight Night 74: Charles Oliveira suffers neck injury vs. Max Holloway

Date: Aug. 23, 2015
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Result: Max Holloway def. Charles Oliveira via TKO (injury) – Round 1, 1:39
Injury: In one of the more bizarre sequences in UFC history, Charles Oliveira grabbed his neck and went down against Max Holloway. As he rose to his feet against the cage, Oliveira grabbed his throat, seemingly untouched. Initial reports stated Oliveira suffered an esophageal tear. However, he recently revealed it was a reccurring neck injury that left his body tingling.

UFC Fight Night 120: Anthony Pettis suffers rib injury vs. Dustin Poirier

Nov 11, 2017; Virginia, VA, USA; Anthony Pettis (blue gloves) leaves the fight against Dustin Poirier (red gloves) during UFC Fight Night at the Ted Constant Convocation Center. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports

Date: Nov. 11, 2017
Location: Norfolk, Va.
Result: Dustin Poirier def. Anthony Pettis via TKO (injury) – Round 3, 2:08
Injury: There are tight body triangles and then there’s the one Dustin Poirier had Anthony Pettis in during their five-round lightweight main event showdown. With Poirier on his back, Pettis attempted to turn into his opponent. However, Poirier slid into mount and in the process, broke one of Pettis’ ribs.

UFC Fight Night 159: Jeremy Stephens suffers eye injury vs. Yair Rodriguez

Sep 21, 2019; Mexico City, MEX; Jeremy Stephens (blue gloves) reacts after being poked in the eye by Yair Rodriguez (red gloves) during UFC Fight Night at Mexico City Arena. Mandatory Credit: Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports

Date: Sept. 21, 2019
Location: Mexico City
Result: No contest – Round 1, 0:15
Injury: In one of the more memorable main event failures in UFC history (for all the wrong reasons), Yair Rodriguez poked Jeremy Stephens in the eye 15 seconds into their main event clash. Unable to see, Stephens couldn’t continue. The bout was called off. Mexican fans pelted the cage and Stephens with food and beverages – which even caused UFC commentator Brendan Fitzgerald to hide under his desk. The matchup was rebooked for one month later in Boston. Rodriguez defeated Stephens by unanimous decision.

UFC Fight Night 178: Tyron Woodley suffers rib injury vs. Colby Covington

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – SEPTEMBER 19: Tyron Woodley (R) reacts after suffering a rib injury against Colby Covington in their welterweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on September 19, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

Date: Sept. 19, 2020
Location: Las Vegas
Result: Colby Covington def. Tyron Woodley via TKO (injury) – Round 5, 1:19
Injury: A dominant four-round showing from Colby Covington was topped off by a fifth-round Tyron Woodley injury. What looked like a normal takedown attempt caused Woodley to scream out in pain – and referee Dan Miragliotta to intervene. An X-ray later confirmed Woodley broke a rib.

UFC Fight Night 187: Belal Muhammad suffers eye injury vs. Leon Edwards

Date: March 13, 2021
Location: Las Vegas
Result: No contest (accidental foul) – Round 2, 0:18
Injury: An unfortunate eye injury halted the biggest fight of Belal Muhammad’s career prematurely. In the early stages of Round 2, Leon Edwards accidentally poked Muhammad’s right eye. The foul resulted in visible damage and the fight to be called. Muhammad has since called for a rematch, but has yet to receive it.

UFC 264: Conor McGregor breaks leg vs. Dustin Poirier

Jul 10, 2021; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Conor McGregor holds his leg after suffering an injury against Dustin Poirier during UFC 264 at T-Mobile Arena. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports

Date: July 10, 2021
Location: Las Vegas
Result: Dustin Poirier def. Conor McGregor via TKO (injury) – Round 1, 5:00
Injury: Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier – the rubber match. Who would’ve guessed it would end in the most high-profile leg break since Anderson Silva against Chris Weidman? But in MMA, expect the unexpected. Late in Round 1, McGregor stepped back and his leg caved under him. In between rounds, McGregor was deemed unable to continue – and for good reason. He suffered a broken tibia and fibula. Adamant on the stool the fight be stopped due to doctor stoppage/injury rather than “retirement,” McGregor got his wish.

UFC on ESPN 36: Aleksandar Rakic suffers knee injury vs. Jan Blachowicz

Date: May 14, 2022
Location: Las Vegas
Result: Jan Blachowicz def. Aleksandar Rakic via TKO (injury) – Round 3, 1:11
Injury: It wasn’t out of the realm of possibility Aleksandar Rakic could’ve earned a title shot if he beat Jan Blachowicz. Instead, the injury bug bit. In an early Round 3 exchange, Rakic’s knee buckled. He crumpled to the canvas and the fight was over. Later, exams showed he sustained a torn ACL.

UFC on ABC 3: Brian Ortega suffers shoulder injury vs. Yair Rodriguez

Jul 16, 2022; Elmont, New York, USA; Brian Ortega (red gloves) reacts to fight against Yair Rodriguez (blue gloves) during UFC Fight Night at UBS Arena. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports

Date: July 16, 2022
Location: Elmont, N.Y.
Result: Yair Rodriguez def. Brian Ortega via TKO (injury) – Round 1, 4:11
Injury: Everyone was seemingly hyped for Yair Rodriguez vs. Brian Ortega – a matinee main event on ABC. That’s why there was an audible murmer of disappointment on Long Island when the fight ended before it really even got started. While his submission defense succeeded initially, Ortega injured himself as he pulled out of a Rodriguez armbar attempt. He was rendered unable to continue.

UFC Fight Night 208: Tom Aspinall suffers knee injury vs. Curtis Blaydes

Jul 23, 2022; London, United Kingdom; Tom Aspinall (blue gloves) falls to the ground while fighting Curtis Blaydes during UFC Fight Night at O2 Arena. Mandatory Credit: Per Haljestam-USA TODAY Sports

Date: July 23, 2022
Location: London
Result: Curtis Blaydes def. Tom Aspinall via TKO (injury) – Round 1, 0:15
Injury: It could’ve been Tom Aspinall’s contendership coming-out party. Instead, it was a 15-second nightmare for the Brit. Aspinall threw a kick at Curtis Blaydes, stepped back, and his knee gave out. It was all over just like that.

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WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event From Bossier (7/9): Street Fight Match – Wrestling Inc.

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event From Bossier (7/9): Street Fight Match - Wrestling Inc.

WWE held a Saturday Night’s Main Event with the “Raw” roster. In the main event, Riddle defeated Seth Rollins in a Street Fight match.

Also during the show, Asuka defeated Becky Lynch, Omos defeated Cedric Alexander, and Ezekiel defeated Ciampa.

Below is the full results courtesy of WrestleZone: 

* Dolph Ziggler defeated Theory. Theory originally thought he won but the ref caught his foot on the ropes during the pin.

* Veer Mahaan defeated R-Truth

* Ezekiel defeated Tommaso Ciampa

* Dana Brooke defeated Doudrop. Carmella came out afterward and cut a heel promo to the crowd.

* Asuka defeated Becky Lynch

* Omos defeated Cedric Alexander

* Finn Balor defeated Dominik Mysterio

* Street Fight: Riddle defeated Seth Rollins

 

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WWE Advertising New Main Event For Madison Square Garden Return – Wrestling Inc.

WWE Advertising New Main Event For Madison Square Garden Return - Wrestling Inc.

A new main event match is being advertised for WWE’s Madison Square Garden.

The new match, according to PWInsider,  is Riddle & The Street Profits vs. WWE Undisputed Champion Roman Reigns & Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions The Usos.

Before Cody Rhodes’ injury, the original main event was Rhodes vs. Rollins and was later changed to Rollins vs. Riddle.

One of WWE’s last events at MSG was in March. During the event, Brock Lesnar defeated Theory, Ronda Rousey and Naomi defeated then WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte and Sonya Deville, The Usos defeated Big E and Kofi Kingston, and Roman Reigns defeated Seth Rollins.

WWE’s return to MSG is set for July 25 for “Monday Night Raw.”

Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair, Becky Lynch, WWE United States Champion Bobby Lashley, AJ Styles, Theory, and Ronda Rousey have also been announced for the upcoming event.

 

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2022 WSOP Main Event Falls Just Short of Record-Breaking Attendance

2022 WSOP Main Event Falls Just Short of Record-Breaking Attendance
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Many projected a record-breaking year for the 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event, some even anticipating 10,000 or more players. But when registration officially closed around 4 p.m. on Friday, the 2006 record of 8,773 entries still stood.

With 8,663 entrants, this year’s world championship event is officially the second largest in the tournament’s 53-year history, slightly higher than the 8,569 of 2019. The winner on July 17 will take home $10 million, with second place receiving $6 million.

Gold Holds onto Record

Jamie Gold
Jamie Gold

Jamie Gold, who didn’t compete in the 2022 Main Event, can still stake his claim to having won the largest Main Event of all-time. In 2006, during the height of the poker boom, he defeated a massive field en route to a $12 million payday, also the largest cash in any WSOP event not named the $1 million Big One for One Drop.

It may come as a bit of a surprise, but Gold was rooting for the record to not only be broken, but to be “smashed.” And he thought it should have been years ago.

“I’ve been looking forward to seeing a larger field in the main event since I was lucky enough to play in my first that happened to have the largest field,” Gold told PokerNews. “If not for a ridiculous law that in effect shut down US online poker in 2007, I believe there would be 25,000 entrants or more by now, then hopefully without having to add the Day 2 buy in option.”

“The amount of players sponsored and winning satellites combined with the expansion of at least 38 states playing in mutual pools would have been wonderful to see. I believe the game and community I care about deeply is still growing and will continue to expand as states legalize and the next generation of players discover new ways of playing and more variants. Either way, that number will be surpassed next year finally and I look forward to getting back to playing again. Was very sad to miss it this year.”

Prior to the start of the World Series of Poker, the PokerNews crew made some predictions on Main Event attendance, all of which weren’t too far off base, except for Matthew Pitt, who projected an underwhelming 7,294 entries. Five out of 10 of us predicted a record-breaking Main Event.

Top 10 Largest WSOP Main Events in History

Year Entrants Winner
2006 8,773 Jamie Gold
2022 8,663 ?
2019 8,569 Hossein Ensan
2018 7,874 John Cynn
2010 7,319 Jonathan Duhamel
2011 6,865 Pius Heinz
2008 6,844 Peter Eastgate
2016 6,737 Qui Nguyen
2014 6,683 Martin Jacobson

Long Lines Frustrate Players

Registration remained open until the start of Level 8 on Day 2d, two 120-minute levels into the session. Hundreds of players late registered before play began on Friday but were stuck in a huge line that wrapped around the Bally’s ballroom, some even had to wait up to two hours just to get into a game.

PokerNews was approached by multiple frustrated players in line who were angry with the wait times. But there simply weren’t seats available until players busted, according to a floor manager we spoke with.

Each player started with 60,000 chips regardless of when they first took a seat. At the start of Day 2, the blinds were at 400-800, meaning the first players in line would begin with a healthy stack of 75 big blinds. Those who were last to enter the tournament started with 50 big blinds.

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Kurt Angle Questions Decision For WWE SummerSlam Main Event – Wrestling Inc.

Kurt Angle Questions Decision For WWE SummerSlam Main Event - Wrestling Inc.

Kurt Angle enjoys a good Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar bout, but he’s ready to see the “Head Of The Table” face some new blood too. In a new conversation with “NBC Sports”, Angle was asked about WWE having trouble finding comparable replacements to a star at the level of the Beast Incarnate, and he believes a good deal of the struggle comes from competition.

“I think that has a lot to do with the other promotion starting to get some momentum behind them — AEW,” Angle said. “You know, WWE lost a lot of talent to them. They’re looking at their NXT guys and they’re going to start making those guys pretty soon. I think that they do have a habit of going back to the older guys like Brock Lesnar.”

Lesnar was revealed to be the man scheduled to fight Reigns for the WWE Universal Title at SummerSlam after reports surfaced that Reigns’ originally planned opponent, Randy Orton, was going to be out with injury perhaps through all of 2022, but Lesnar has faced Lesnar at numerous headline events, including just recently, at WrestleMania 38 in Dallas.

“Roman Reigns, he needs to wrestle some new talent, some NXT guys, upcoming talent that are very talented, that can match his skill,” Angle said. He didn’t mention any names, but NXT has been heavily promoting stars such as NXT Champion Bron Breakker, the North American Champion Carmelo Hayes, and Roman Reigns’ legit “Bloodline” cousin in Solo Sikoa.

“I have nothing against Brock Lesnar coming back and wrestling Roman Reigns again but it’s already been done, and you don’t want to keep doing that over and over again. You have to make new talent,” Angle added.

Angle is no stranger to battling Brock Lesnar himself, as the two had a historic main event with one another at WrestleMania 19. He’s also no stranger at helping build new stars as he was the first to face-off against John Cena in his WWE debut. The same can be said for Taz, who gave Angle his first WWE loss when debuting for the promotion back at Royal Rumble 2000.

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The Main Draw at Andrew Giuliani’s Campaign Events? His Father.

The Main Draw at Andrew Giuliani’s Campaign Events? His Father.

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — On a blazing Saturday afternoon in eastern Long Island, after hours of sun-baked stump speeches by candidates of little renown, it was finally Giuliani time.

As the strains of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” filled the air, the crowd of about 200 Republican voters swooned to the sounds of an extended harangue against government mandates, socialism and the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Dozens of admirers crowded nearby, shooting video or hoping to get a selfie. After the speech was over, well-wishers lined up for a chance at an autograph and a red hat bearing the surname of the man who seemed to be the featured attraction: Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Standing beside him was his son Andrew, the actual candidate in what is increasingly resembling a tandem campaign for governor of New York.

With just over two weeks to go before the Republican primary on June 28, Andrew Giuliani’s unlikely campaign has remained visible and viable in no small part because of his famous last name and the continued prominence of, and appearances by, his father, formerly the mayor of New York City and a personal lawyer of former President Donald J. Trump.

The elder Mr. Giuliani, 78, has regularly campaigned with his son since he began running for office last year, often serving as both his warm-up act and sidekick at the Israel Day Parade and at Memorial Day marches and news conferences outside City Hall.

His efforts have been welcomed by the younger Mr. Giuliani, 36, who is running a shoestring campaign, driving up and down the state in a collection of donated vans and trucks emblazoned with his face, in hopes of upsetting the party’s anointed nominee, Representative Lee M. Zeldin of Long Island.

Regardless of who wins the nomination, making it to the governor’s mansion will be an uphill battle for Republicans, who haven’t won statewide office in two decades. Their likely Democratic opponent is Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has more than $18 million in her campaign coffers, in a state in which registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than two to one.

“I feel honored that he would take his time to help us get over the finish line,” Andrew Giuliani said about his father, after posing for dozens of photographs alongside him. “I feel very, very blessed.”

Political families are, of course, not uncommon in New York, where the former governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, was a son of another former governor, Mario M. Cuomo. Families like the Addabbos, the Weprins and the Diazes have all spawned father-son pairs who became lawmakers.

Nor is it really that surprising that Andrew Giuliani, who famously mugged for the camera during his father’s first inauguration in 1994, would lean on him for support: He is making his first run for public office and has a limited record to fall back on.

His primary political experience is the four years he spent in the Trump White House, serving as a special assistant to the president and working in the Office of Public Liaison — hardly classic preparation for Albany.

Mr. Zeldin, a four-term congressman, remains far better financed, with more than $3.1 million in campaign funds as of late last month; Mr. Giuliani had about a tenth of that, according to campaign disclosure statements.

Two other candidates — Rob Astorino, the former Westchester County executive, and Harry Wilson, a corporate turnaround expert — also have more to spend than Mr. Giuliani.

And although Mr. Giuliani has a direct connection to Mr. Trump, getting his endorsement is far from assured. Mr. Zeldin is an avid Trump supporter who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election in key swing states, an effort, ironically, that Rudolph Giuliani led.

A 2008 presidential candidate who was once hailed as America’s Mayor, the elder Mr. Giuliani saw his law license suspended and his public persona tarnished, at least in some circles, as a result of his work for Mr. Trump. Those activities, in service of a false narrative of a stolen election, were given a fresh airing last week during a prime-time hearing by the House committee investigating the Capitol assault on Jan. 6, 2021.

In a recent interview on Newsmax, the right-wing network where he has appeared as a political analyst, Andrew Giuliani said that while Mr. Trump was “kind of like an uncle to me,” he did not expect an endorsement, and that he thought the former president was “probably going to sit this one out.”

That doesn’t mean the Giulianis aren’t trying: Both appeared at a recent fund-raiser hosted by Representative Elise Stefanik at Trump National Golf Club Westchester, where a round-table discussion and photo op with the former president cost $25,000 a head. Mr. Astorino was also there, mingling near the back; Mr. Zeldin had a prior commitment.

In remarks at an outdoor reception, the former president lavished praise on the younger Mr. Giuliani, but the compliments had nothing to do with his political future.

“He did talk about him, but it was all about golf,” said Gerard Kassar, the chairman of the New York Conservative Party, which has endorsed Mr. Zeldin. “I do not believe the president is getting involved in the race at all, as much as the Giuliani people want him to.”

There has been little definitive polling on the race, though Mr. Giuliani has taken to calling himself “the front-runner” as a result of a single online poll from May, something that the Zeldin campaign scoffs at, citing other polls that show Mr. Giuliani with higher unfavorable ratings than Mr. Zeldin. (Mr. Giuliani, however, has higher name recognition, with better favorable ratings than Mr. Zeldin.)

Katie Vincentz, a spokeswoman for the Zeldin campaign, said that the congressman intended to “run up the score” on Primary Day to prove that he could beat Ms. Hochul.

“Lee Zeldin is going to win this race, because New Yorkers need him to win this race, and save our state,” she said.

Mr. Giuliani and his supporters have cast his run as an outsider’s campaign, arguing that his lack of experience in New York politics and policy is actually a positive.

His platform leans heavily on tackling crime, promising a $5 billion fund for police forces around the state while also pledging to cut the state budget. He is not averse to Trumpian nicknames, dubbing Ms. Hochul “Crime Wave Kathy.”

His father has employed some of the same imagery on the campaign trail as Mr. Trump, calling Albany “a swamp” that’s “got to be cleaned up,” echoing the former president’s own rhetoric about Washington in his 2016 campaign.

Curtis Sliwa, last year’s Republican nominee for New York City mayor, has been stumping for the campaign as well. He supported the elder Mr. Giuliani’s first unsuccessful run for mayor back in 1989, “when Andrew was just a little tot,” he said.

Nowadays, he said, he backs Andrew because of his focus on crime, something that Republicans feel is a winning issue this election cycle, particularly in New York, where opposition to bail reform has been a potent issue for conservatives.

“It is the talk of everybody that I deal with,” said Mr. Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, the citizen patrol group. “And it’s not just in the five boroughs; it’s throughout the state. They want to know what the next governor is going to do about the high crime rates.”

Mr. Giuliani declined a request for an interview, but at various events on Long Island and in Albany and outside Rochester, he was friendly and open to brief questions from a New York Times reporter. (The elder Mr. Giuliani did not return requests for comment.)

But he also told Newsmax last week that he felt “legacy outlets” had a liberal bias and claimed that he had chided the Times reporter about it. (For the record, he had not.)

“I told him that, ‘You remind me more of Pravda than you do a free press right now because you are so tilted on one side,’” Mr. Giuliani said. “I don’t mind tough questions, but just make sure they’re fair on both sides of the aisle.”

As for how he might manage a state of 20 million people with no executive experience, his father suggested that he had learned — as many children do — by observation.

“He watched me do it,” the elder Mr. Giuliani said during his remarks on Long Island, talking about how to lower crime rates, adding, “He knows how to do it.”

Still, some New York Republicans say that the younger Mr. Giuliani is overreaching by starting his political career running for the state’s highest office.

“If his name was Andrew Smith, obviously he wouldn’t be running for governor,” said John J. Faso, a former Hudson Valley congressman and the 2006 Republican nominee for governor, who called Mr. Giuliani’s candidacy a “sideshow.”

Mr. Giuliani has impressed some with his natural political skills: He’s comfortable and affable on television and in front of crowds, with a wide smile and a more easygoing demeanor than his sometimes temperamental father.

But his campaign rhetoric is cast in the Trump mold, emphasizing divisive culture-war topics, railing against critical race theory and a “war on cops,” and professing disdain for phrases like “gender dysphoria.”

“I’m not a biologist,” Mr. Giuliani said during a campaign stop in Conesus, N.Y., south of Rochester. “But I do know the difference between a man and a woman.”

Married with a young daughter, Mr. Giuliani is an avid golfer who once sued after being left off the Duke University golf team.

He says that he has had little time to hit the links since the campaign started, telling a prospective voter, Keith Hilpl, that he’d played infrequently in the last year, though he had caught a round with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Hilpl had driven about 80 miles to see Mr. Giuliani at the event in Conesus after hearing him on Steve Bannon’s podcast and visiting his campaign website.

“I always liked his father,” said Mr. Hilpl, a software programmer. “And I wanted to see if he was made of the same stuff.”

Sure enough, he seemed impressed, leaving the event with a campaign hat and a lawn sign.

Back at the event in Hauppauge, a Suffolk County hamlet that sits on the edge of Mr. Zeldin’s district, many in attendance expressed unequivocal adoration for the elder Mr. Giuliani.

“He saved New York,” said Penny Cialone, 60, adding, “And I think Andrew could do exactly what his dad did.”

The younger Mr. Giuliani happily joked with his father, briefly jumping up as he began to speak.

“We have a tradition of me interrupting his speeches,” he said. “I haven’t matured at all.”

At the same time, the candidate also seemed aware of his father’s star power, even as the former mayor handed him the microphone.

Taking it, Andrew Giuliani said he was thankful his father wasn’t running for governor.

“Because I’d be in a whole lot of trouble,” he said, “if he could.”

Nicholas Fandos contributed reporting.

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Main events scheduled for Wednesday, May 18

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Main events scheduled in Japan for Tuesday, June 7: — Household spending data for April to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications at 8:30 a.m. — Preliminary composite economic indicator indices for April to be released by Cabinet Office at 2 p.m. — Gov’t to release guidelines for inbound tourism. — Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia to run until June 20 in Tokyo.

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Stephen Fulton, David Morrell Jr. win main events at Armory

Stephen Fulton, David Morrell Jr. win main events at Armory

Stephen Fulton stayed undefeated with a 12-round unanimous decision victory over challenger Danny Roman in a super bantamweight title fight on Saturday night at the Minneapolis Armory.

Fulton (21-0, eight KOs) appeared to be in control most of the night against Roman (28-4-1, 10 KOs), a former unified 122-pound titleholder. The judges scored it 119-109, 120-108 and 120-108.

“I made a hell of a statement tonight,” Fulton said. “I prepared for this and I told y’all I was going to make it easy and fight depending on how I wake up, and I woke up feeling good.”

The fights drew an announced sellout of 4,695, the largest crowd for a boxing event at the historic building.

In the other other co-main event, Cuban David Morrell Jr., 24, who is based in Minneapolis, defended his WBA super middleweight title with a fourth-round knockout of Kalvin Henderson.

Morrell improved to 7-0 with six KOs when his fight against Henderson (15-2-1) was called at the 2:35 mark of the fourth. Morrell dominated the fight, landing 45% of his power punches to 15% for Henderson.

“Thank you everyone for coming out to The Armory,” Morrell said. “I’m just happy, man. I’m happy. I’m so excited every time I fight in my new home in Minnesota. I made this place my home.”

MNUFC2 rolls along

MNUFC2 won its fourth consecutive game and extended its unbeaten streak to eight games with Saturday night’s 2-1 victory at Sporting Kansas City II.

Tommy Williamson’s one-on-one move and sharp-angled shot ended a scoreless game in the 74th minute and Diogo Pacheco made it 2-0 just four minutes later.

Sporting KC II’s only goal two minutes into second-half stoppage time wasn’t enough against the Loons’ streaking reserve team. MNUFC2 is now 5-2-3 overall and 3-1-2 on the road.

JERRY ZGODA