The son of former absolute world boxing champion Konstantin Tszyu, Tim, won his 11th victory in the professional ring. In a rating fight in the weight category up to 69.9 kg, held in Bendigo, Australia, he defeated Argentinean Marcos Jesus Cornejo by technical knockout in the first round. The fight became the main event of the tournament. Now 23-year-old Tszyu has 11 wins (9 by knockout) and not a single defeat. By the way, Tim won his fourth early victory in a row. Tszyu Jr.

Former world number one Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, who reached the fourth round of the US Open, said that he always admires the success of the legendary basketball player Michael Jordan. "His athletic durability, desire to win and the way he handled pressure always amazed me. Jordan played in a team sport, but in every match he was a true leader and inspired his teammates. He has always been my hero in sports.

The Telegraph newspaper became known new details about the Russians, whom the British authorities suspect of the poisoning of the ex-colonel of the GRU Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in Salisbury. According to the sources of the publication in the Government of Great Britain, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov flew almost 30 times to Europe from September 2016 to March 2018.

The Mexican director Alfonso Koaron received the Golden Leo - the main award of the Venice festival - for the film "Roma" , according to the website of the review. According to Interfax , the picture throughout the festival was included in the top three rating leaders of both film critics and the public.

Two-time Olympic taekwondo champion Steven Lopez has been disqualified for life in the United States after being accused of sexual harassment, R-Sport reports. The US Center for Safe Sports made this decision following a four-month trial. The 39-year-old athlete can appeal this decision. Lopez was suspended from training in May following allegations of misconduct.

The former captain of the England national football team and the London Chelsea, John Terry, successfully passed a physical examination before a possible transition to the Moscow Spartak, reports Gianlucadimarzio.com . The 37-year-old veteran, in the status of a free agent, arrived at the Villa Stuart clinic in Italy on Saturday morning for a medical examination. The test results satisfied the doctors.

The famous actress and model Pamela Anderson broke up with the defender of the French "Marcel" Adil Rami. The parting occurred a few days after the proposal of the hand and heart, to which the 51-year-old Anderson refused, reports TMZ . For the sake of Pamela, the football player left his civilian wife and two-year-old twin sons. Anderson met with a 32-year-old athlete at the Cannes Film Festival in the spring of 2017.

Activists of the Prochrevsky movement of SERB attacked the Boris Nemtsov’s on-duty memorial on the Bolshaya Moskvoretsky Bridge on the night of September 8, one of the injured volunteers Pavel Kolesnikov portal OVD-Info . According to him, there were about ten attackers, including the leader of SERB Igor Beketov (Gosha Tarasevich). At night, on the bridge, in addition to Kolesnikov, Karina Starostin and Grigory Saksonov were on duty.

Former WBA world super champion in the weight category up to 90.71 kg, Russian Denis Lebedev won the first fight after more than a year break. In Chelyabinsk, he defeated the Turk Hizni Altunkai by technical knockout in the third round. The last time Lebedev entered the ring was in July last year, when he defended the WBA world super champion title, defeating Australian Mark Flanagan on points .

The legendary footballer Diego Maradona arrived in Mexico on Saturday, where he will work with the Drados de Sinaloa club. According to the AristeGui Noticias portal, from Mexico Airport on Saturday in the afternoon of local time, the Argentine will go to the main city of the state of Sinaloa - Kuliakan. The arrival of the star caused a stir among employees of the airport of the Mexican capital - many of them were photographed with a celebrity and published these photos on social networks.

The element does not subside in Crimea, a storm warning is operating throughout the peninsula until September 9, Interfax reports with reference to the hydrometeorological center. Rains, thunderstorms, in some places hail and squalling wind are expected 17-22 m/s. The cause of the weather was a sedentary cyclone that arose above the north of the Black Sea.

Spanish doping officers conduct a trial against the midfielder of Valencia and the Russian national football team Denis Cheryshev, the newspaper The Telegraph reports. According to the publication, the verification is related to the words of the father of Cheryshev Dmitry, who in an interview stated that the midfielder, being a player of Villarreal, had an injection of the growth hormone due to the inconsistency of the actions of the doctors during his restoration from the injury.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on the Day of Silence before regional elections, coincided with the city day, conducted a tour of the new concert hall in the Zaryadye Park for senior officials. The current mayor and mayor's candidate told President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev how the hall was built, and then escorted them to the first concert on the new stage, TASS reports.

More than 140 representatives of the field of culture and art from Europe, Australia and Canada signed an appeal to the organizers of the Eurovision Contest with a request not to hold it in 2019 in Israel. “Until the Palestinians receive freedom, justice and equal rights, one should not come into contact with the state that refuses them in the basic rights,” The Guardian quotes the letter on September 7.

Argentine tennis player Juan Martin Del Potro became the first finalist of the US Open, which takes place in New York. In the semi-finals, he turned out to be stronger than the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who refused to continue the fight, losing the first two sets with a score of 6:7, 2:6. The opponents spent just over two hours on the court. “It was difficult for me to say goodbye before the end of the match,” Nadal was quoted as saying by the tournament’s official website .