Peter McGrail To Go For WBA Regional Belt on Catterall-Linares Card – Boxing News

Liverpool amateur sensation turned 7-0 (5 KOs) super bantamweight prospect Peter McGrail will fight for his first professional title on Saturday October 21 when he faces unbeaten Colombian Fran Mendoza for the vacant WBA Continental Title on the undercard of Jack Catterall’s Super-Lightweight clash with multi-weight World Champion Jorge Linares at the M&S Bank Arena, shown live worldwide on DAZN.

One of Merseyside’s most decorated amateur boxers, McGrail, who trains out of the renowned Everton Red Triangle Gym on Albion Street under Paul Stevenson, made his highly anticipated professional debut on Matchroom’s sold-out Liam Smith vs. Anthony Fowler show at the M&S Bank Arena back in October 2021, comfortably outpointing Ed Harrison over six rounds to kick off life in the paid ranks with a win.

He returned to the arena two months later for his second fight on the undercard of the sold-out Conor Benn vs. Chris Algieri and Katie Taylor vs. Firuza Sharipova double-header, earning his first stoppage win without a vest by halting Nicaragua’s Engel Gomez in just two rounds.

The 27-year-old made his promotional debut as a Matchroom fighter back in March on the undercard of Diego Pacheco’s four-round demolition of Jack Cullen, decisioning Argentina’s Nicolas Nahuel Botelli over ten rounds.

Mendoza, who resides in Spain, has won all seventeen of his professional contests since turning over in July 2018, with seven of those winning coming via stoppage, and the 26-year-old will be the first undefeated opponent McGrail has faced so far in his promising professional career.

Stoke’s undefeated Super-Bantamweight slickster Shabaz Masoud (11-0, 4 KOs) fights for the first time as a Matchroom fighter after singing a multi-fight deal with Eddie Hearn in June, putting his WBA Intercontinental title on the line against Colombia’s Jose Sanmartin (34-7-1, 21 KOs).

Oldham’s unbeaten Super-Featherweight contender Aqib Fiaz (12-0, 1 KO) kicks off live the live broadcast with what promises to be an electric match-up against Watford’s Reece Bellotti (16-5, 13 KOs) for the vacant Commonwealth Title, with the fight doubling up as a British Title Final Eliminator.

Chester’s Paddy Lacey (8-0, 1 KO) returns to action as he takes on Heysham’s Owen Kirk (3-1-2), Hyde Super-Lightweight Campbell Hatton (13-0, 5 KOs) sees action for the fifth time this year after outpointing Tom Ansell on the undercard of Joshua vs. Helenius earlier this month and Bolton’s Khaleel Majid (11-0, 3 KOs) looks to build on his points win in Birmingham over the weekend. 

Roasted Vegetable Salad Recipe With Quinoa & Feta: Inspired By That Contessa We Love | Salads | 30Seconds Food

I love Ina Garten (aka The Barefoot Contessa) and her beautiful gifts of cooking and hospitality. I’ve adapted one of her roasted vegetable recipes (Orzo With Roasted Vegetables) to make it my own. All you need is red (purple) onions, sweet peppers, garlic, orzo or quinoa, lemon juice, basil, olive oil, feta or goat cheese, green onions and a nut of your choice!

The main dish or side dish salad ingredients are healthy and wholesome: eggplant, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, garlic, red onions, olive oil and quinoa or orzo. The vegetables are roasted in the oven until tender. Be sure to flip them as they cook.

The salad dressing for this roasted vegetable and orzo salad is a refreshing combination of lemon juice (fresh is best), olive oil and salt and black pepper. Simple, right? That’s all you need to bring out the flavor of the eggplant, peppers and onion.

Once the salad is assembled, you will need some tasty toppings. Our favorite are chopped green onions, diced feta cheese, slivered almonds and fresh basil leaves.

This roasted, lemony salad can be a vegetarian main dish for dinner or a side dish. I hope you love it as much as my family does!

Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour and 10 minutes
Servings: 4 as a main dish and 6 as a side dish

Ingredients

Dressing

Toppings

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LIVERPOOL’S DECORATED AMATEUR SENSATION PETER MCGRAIL GOES FOR FIRST PRO TITLE AGAINST UNBEATEN OPPONENT ON OCTOBER 21

Liverpool amateur sensation turned 7-0 (5 KOs) Super-Bantamweight prospect Peter McGrail will fight for his first professional title on Saturday October 21 when he faces unbeaten Colombian Fran Mendoza for the vacant WBA Continental Title on the undercard of Jack Catterall’s Super-Lightweight clash with multi-weight World Champion Jorge Linares at the M&S Bank Arena, shown live worldwide on DAZN.

One of Merseyside’s most decorated amateur boxers, McGrail, who trains out of the renowned Everton Red Triangle Gym on Albion Street under Paul Stevenson, made his highly anticipated professional debut on Matchroom’s sold-out Liam Smith vs. Anthony Fowler show at the M&S Bank Arena back in October 2021, comfortably outpointing Ed Harrison over six rounds to kick off life in the paid ranks with a win.

He returned to the arena two months later for his second fight on the undercard of the sold-out Conor Benn vs. Chris Algieri and Katie Taylor vs. Firuza Sharipova double-header, earning his first stoppage win without a vest by halting Nicaragua’s Engel Gomez in just two rounds.

The 27-year-old made his promotional debut as a Matchroom fighter back in March on the undercard of Diego Pacheco’s four-round demolition of Jack Cullen, decisioning Argentina’s Nicolas Nahuel Botelli over ten rounds.

Mendoza, who resides in Spain, has won all seventeen of his professional contests since turning over in July 2018, with seven of those winning coming via stoppage, and the 26-year-old will be the first undefeated opponent McGrail has faced so far in his promising professional career.

Stoke’s undefeated Super-Bantamweight slickster Shabaz Masoud (11-0, 4 KOs) fights for the first time as a Matchroom fighter after singing a multi-fight deal with Eddie Hearn in June, putting his WBA Intercontinental title on the line against Colombia’s Jose Sanmartin(34-7-1, 21 KOs).

Oldham’s unbeaten Super-Featherweight contender Aqib Fiaz (12-0, 1 KO) kicks off live the live broadcast with what promises to be an electric match-up against Watford’s Reece Bellotti (16-5, 13 KOs) for the vacant Commonwealth Title, with the fight doubling up as a British Title Final Eliminator.

Chester’s Paddy Lacey (8-0, 1 KO) returns to action as he takes on Heysham’s Owen Kirk(3-1-2), Hyde Super-Lightweight Campbell Hatton (13-0, 5 KOs) sees action for the fifth time this year after outpointing Tom Ansell on the undercard of Joshua vs. Helenius earlier this month and Bolton’s Khaleel Majid (11-0, 3 KOs) looks to build on his points win in Birmingham over the weekend.

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Colorado deputy saves choking baby’s life: ‘I did what I needed to do’

Colorado deputy saves choking baby’s life

Deputy Nicholas Pacheco responded to a call of an unresponsive child “turning blue.” LiveNOW from FOX spoke with the deputy about his heroic efforts.

A sheriff’s deputy in Colorado is being hailed a hero after saving a choking infant earlier this week. His efforts were captured on his body camera. 

Deputy Nicholas Pacheco, who has worked for the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office for the last eight years, said he responded early on August 13 to a call of an unresponsive one-month-old baby “turning blue.” 

When he arrived on the scene, Pacheco told LiveNOW from FOX that he could tell from the baby boy’s color that he was not breathing and did not appear to be conscious or responsive. 

“She [the mother] hands me the baby and just says, ‘please,’” Pacheco, a father of two children, recalled. 

Body camera footage as the deputy started using cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills to attempt to clear the baby boy’s air pathway. (Credit: Arapahoe Sheriff’s Office)

He immediately started using cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills to attempt to clear the baby boy’s air pathway and resume his breathing.

“I flipped him back and forth between giving him back thrusts and compressions on his chest. He starts coughing up a little bit, starts breathing, and gives out a little bit of cry,” the deputy continued. 

Soon after Pacheco provided several more back thrusts, the baby spit out a white foamy substance, which appeared to be a mixture of milk and infant cereal. 

“He starts crying, his color comes back into his face, and then I tell the parents he’s breathing,” he said. “Soon as the baby started fully crying, you could see the mom stick her hands on her face and let out this gigantic breath sigh of relief.” 

Body camera footage shows the baby being transported to a local hospital for evaluation. (Credit: Arapahoe Sheriff’s Office)

The baby was immediately transported to a local Children’s Hospital for further evaluation. According to the sheriff’s department, the baby, named Carlos, is doing well and is now back at home.

Arapahoe Sheriff’s Office acknowledged Pacheco’s efforts on social media, writing, “Thank you Deputy Pacheco for your quick response and diligence in saving this baby’s life.” 

Pacheco said his sheriff’s office has previously required infant CPR training courses that his instincts of what to do “just kicked in.”

“Thankfully, by the grace of God, I was able to help this baby breathe again.” – Deputy Nicholas Pacheco

“I did what I needed to do, and thankfully, by the grace of God, I was able to help this baby breathe again,” he added. 

Parents and caregivers can find infant and child CPR training at their local Red Cross or fire department. 

This story was reported from Los Angeles.

Bellator 298 video: Logan Storley stops Brennan Ward in second round

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Logan Storley | Lucas Noonan/Bellator MMA

It wasn’t the prettiest night, but Logan Storley delivered an emphatic victory for his home state crowd.

On Saturday night, Storley faced off with Brennan Ward in the main event of Bellator 298 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Coming off a loss to the current welterweight champion, Yaroslav Amosov, Storley needed a big win and he delivered, stopping Ward with strikes in the second round.

Ward came out of the gates strong, putting pressure on Storley and tagging the former interim champion with his jab, but Storley’s takedowns and ground-and-pound proved to much for Ward. After a competitive first round, Storley landed a big power-double on Ward in the second, potentially injuring his opponent’s arm in the process. Storley certainly dominated the action from that moment on, unleashing powerful strikes from the top that Ward struggled to defend, instead screaming at his opponent “Stand up, motherf*****! I’ve got one arm!” Storley did not oblige, instead moving to mount and then backmount, punishing Ward with heavy shots until referee Jason Herzog intervened.

The “Storm” continues in Sioux Falls as @StorleyStorm beats Brennan Ward to make it 6️⃣ wins in front of his home crowd!#Bellator298 pic.twitter.com/LEfO0dsdYM

— Bellator MMA (@BellatorMMA) August 12, 2023

The win moves Storley to 10-2 inside of Bellator with his only professional losses coming against Amosov. After the fight, the South Dakota native said he wanted to see how the rest of the division shakes out first, but that he still probably needs at least one more win before he’s back in the title picture.

Elsewhere on the card, things were not nearly as exciting. In the co-main event, Valentin Moldavsky got back in the win column with a dominant but passive unanimous decision over Steve Mowry. Mowry simply had no answer for the wrestling and top-position control of the former Bellator interim heavyweight champion, and Moldavsky took full advantage, laying on Mowry for most of the fight, a tactic which elicited boos from the crowd and didn’t exactly make a strong case for Moldavsky to get right back in the heavyweight title picture.

In the middleweight main card fight, Aaron Jeffery rebounded from his first Bellator loss with a hard-fought unanimous decision win over Dalton Rosa. Rosa had early success with his grappling and clinch-wrestling but it was Jeffery’s low kicks and cardio that won they day as he kept putting the pressure on Rosa and nearly scored a finish in the closing seconds of the fight.

In a featured featherweight bout on the main card, James Gallagher had a successful return to the cage, eking out a split decision win over James Gonzalez in his first fight in 21 months. Gonzalez proved to be a tough matchup for the 26-year-old Irishman, but Gallagher was able to repeatedly get takedowns and control the fight from top position for the first two rounds and then survive a strong showing from Gonzalez in the third. Ultimately, that was enough to sway two judges, though the fans in attendance were less pleased, booing “The Strabanimal” all during his post-fight speech.

In the main card opener, Sidney Outlaw got back on the winning track, taking a unanimous decision win over Islam Mamedov. Outlaw dropped Islam Mamedov early in the fight and then used his superior grappling to control the Russian fighter for much of the rest of the bout, take a clear if unexciting decision win and delivering Mamedov his second loss inside the Bellator cage.

Check out the full results of Bellator 298 below.

Main Card

Logan Storley def. Brennan Ward via TKO (punches) — 4:05, Round 2.

Valentin Moldavsky def. Steve Mowry via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).

Aaron Jeffery def. Dalton Rosta via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)

James Gallagher def. James Gonzalez via Split Decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28).

Sidney Outlaw def. Islam Mamedov via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).

Preliminaries

Justine Kish def. Diana Avsaragova via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27).

Enrique Barzola def. Jaylon Bates via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).

Lucas Brennan def. Weber Almeida via KO (knee) — 3:32, Round 3.

Kasum Kasumov def. Josh Hill via Split Decision (29-28, 28-29, 30-27).

Vladimir Tokov def. Jairo Pacheco via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28).

Leandro Higo def. Nikita Mikhailov via Submission (guillotine choke) — 2:50, Round 2.

Alfie Davis def. Aalon Cruz via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).

Katerina Shakalova def. Dayana Silva via Split Decision (29-28, 28-29, 30-27).

Sullivan Cauley def. Hamza Salim via Technical Submission (arm-triangle choke) — 4:24, Round 1.

Marcirley Alves def. Jerrell Hodge via TKO (punches) — 3:53, Round 1.

Jordan Oliver def. Andrew Triolo via Submission (arm-triangle choke) — 1:05, Round 1.

Postlims

Michael Blockhus def. Eli Mefford via TKO (punches) — 2:43, Round 1.

Spotify names Peso Pluma and Eslabon Armado’s song Ella Baila Sola its Global Song of the Summer… as Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny also chart | Daily Mail Online

Spotify unveiled its Global Song of the Summer on Wednesday, with the Peso Pluma and Elsabon Armado tune Ella Baila Sola earning the top honor.

The Mexican singer Pluma, 24, and the vocal and instrumental quartet beat out an impressive array of musicians, including mega stars Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Harry Styles and Miley Cyrus, according to Variety.

Although the list was developed from streaming data, it can’t claim to be a definitive ranking of popular tunes during the summer month, as it was only compiled from Spotify streams and doesn’t take into account streaming data on other services, and it also ignores digital and physical music purchases, as well as radio play.

Only streams recorded between May 29 and August 14 were eligible to count toward the ranking.

Peso Pluma has emerged this year as a Mexican music phenomenon after he managed to topple Bad Bunny from the top of Mexico’s Spotify.

It’s a hit! Peso Pluma (pictured) and the quartet Elsabon Armado scored Spotify’s Global Song of the Summer with their hit Ella Baila Sola, Variety revealed on Wednesday; seen in April

Incredible success: The regional Mexican single has topped charts and even earned Peso Pluma and Elsabon Armado a chance to perform on The Tonight show in April

According to Spotify, Ella Baila Sola scored 367 million streams throughout the late spring and summer months.

The publication noted that the collaboration between Peso Pluma (born Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija) and Eslabon Armado — comprised of vocalist Pedro Tovar, bassist Brian Tovar, 12-string guitarist Damian Pacheco and acoustic guitarist Ulises González — made history as the first regional Mexican song to soar into the top 10 for Billboard’s all-genre songs chart.

Ella Baila Sola also has the distinction of being the first regional Mexican single to be performed on late-night television, after The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon invited the musicians to perform it in April. 

Antonio Vazquez, head of US Latin editorial at Spotify, told the publication that Ella Baila Sola’s success is ‘a true testament to how Música Mexicana is dominating the international music scene, becoming one of the top growth-driving genres globally.’

‘Música Mexicana, in general, offers a rich cultural tapestry that touches upon tradition, emotion, and modernity, making it relatable and exciting for Latin music listeners and non-Spanish speakers alike,’ he explained. ‘The strong appeal of this song reflects the power of Música Mexicana, proving that its moment in the sun is more than a trend.’

Ella Baila Sola wasn’t even Peso Pluma’s only entry on the list, as he was also featured with Yng Lvcas on the La Bebe remix, which was number five on the list. 

In second place on the Spotify Global Songs of the Summer list was Bad Bunny’s WHERE SHE GOES.

In third place was Jung Kook’s Seven, featuring Latto. The former number one hit was notable for being the only entry featuring an American rapper, though other performers on the list, including Bad Bunny, are also rappers.

TMZ noted complaints from music fans and industry insiders that rap has been sidelined recently, even though rap-influenced genres are featured prominently.

The publication singled out a claim from Hot 97 DJ and Apple Music executive Ebro Darden that the music industry and record labels have lately been prioritizing ‘African and Latin’ music over American-style rap.

In a tweet from August 17, he attributed the alleged shift in priorities to hip hop artists making repetitive and derivative music in hopes of going viral on social media. ‘Rappers better stop being boring and talking about the same s*** over and over, chasing TikTok success and comment sections,’ he tweeted.

Incredible success: Ella Baila Sola made history as the first regional Mexican song to soar into the top 10 for Billboard’s all-genre songs chart; still from the video

Hitmaker: In second place on the Spotify Global Songs of the Summer list was Bad Bunny’s WHERE SHE GOES; seen in May in NYC

Throwback: Clocking in at number four on the list was Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer, which was originally featured on her 2019 album Lover but only got a single release in June 2023; seen in March

Clocking in at number four on the list was Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer, which was originally featured on her 2019 album Lover.

Swift has said she intended to release the song as one of the singles for the album, but the release was scuttled at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, so she finally released it as a single in June of this, after putting out three more new albums and multiple rerecorded versions of older material in the meantime.

Bad Bunny was featured a second time on Grupo Frontera’s un x100to (number six).

Other major songs represented on the list include Miley Cyrus’ Flowers, Harry Styles’ As It Was, SZA’s Kill Bill, Olivia Rodrigo’s vampire, Dua Lipa’s Barbie soundtrack song Dance The Night, Rema and Selena Gomez’s Calm Down and Arctic Monkey’s I Wanna Be Yours.

Spotify names Peso Pluma and Eslabon Armado’s song Ella Baila Sola its Global Song of the Summer… as Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny also chart

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Anarchy in the Hudson Valley: The Fugs Reunite at Byrdcliffe Art Colony

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This may well be the final go-round for The Fugs, the satirical and politically-charged group of musical anarchists founded way back in 1964 in the East Village by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg and drummer Ken Weaver. 

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For those not in the know, The Fugs were probably the furthest edge of the counterculture musical spectrum. They were a whip-smart, motely group known for their comical, and often lewd, noise rock lullaby/sendups of America’s hypocritical political and corporate structures, and their singularly vehement protests of the Vietnam War, something expressed in tunes like “Kill for Peace.” An FBI memo on The Doors labeled The Fugs “the most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive.”  Actually, they were, and continue to be at heart, a goodtime band whose messages are contained in hooky singalong-worthy works. In concert, these are delivered with the kind of slapstick comic timing that can warm and thoroughly engage even the chilliest audience. 

With the release of their latest and reportedly final album Dancing in the Universe, The Fugs have reunited for a short series of what may be their final shows, at NYC’s City Winery and Woodstock’s legendary Byrdcliffe, America’s first art colony.

Today, the group is led by its last original member, Ed Sanders.  Sanders is an insanely productive writer acclaimed for his many volumes of poetry, historical works and fiction like my own favorite, the five-volume Tales of Beatnik Glory.  He may be best known to the general public for his 1971 best-seller, The Family, the consummate work on Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca murders. 

On Friday, August 18, 84-year-old Sanders led The Fugs through a spirited two-set, 27 song performance at the rustic barn at Byrdcliffe in Woodstock, where the poet has lived since the mid-1970s.

The Fugs of today are far more polished than the 1960s edition.  A lot of the credit for this goes to Scott Petito, the group’s bassist who has also served as their recording engineer and producer since the group reformed, after a 15-year hiatus, in 1984.  The ensemble was completed by guitarist/singer Steven Taylor, an ethnomusicologist and longtime accompanist to poet Alan Ginsburg, and drummer/singer Coby Batty.

The group kicked off their first set with a blast of East Village past, “Slum Goddess.”  This is a Ken Weaver-penned ode to a saucy and sexual free girl of the L.E.S. past, one whose “skirt is not much wider than her garrison belt.” This was followed by one their best-known offerings, “CIA Man,” a Kupferberg tune Sanders observed was “as true in 2023 as it was in the 1960s.”  Sanders the poet came to the fore with a solo recitation of his nihilist opus, “Nothing.”  Taylor performed a solo rendition of one of the standout tracks on this latest album, “God Bless Johnny Cash.”  The set also included two new songs from their recent album produced from cassette demos recorded with Kupferberg before his death in 2010, the wonderful “I Want to Be Healed” and “Where Have All the Commies Gone?”  The Fugs’ “R&R Hall of Fame” is a humorous response to Jann Wenner’s stance of forever barring the band for consideration in Cleveland’s fame rock hall.

The Fugs of today are far more musically adept than their original editions, especially as it relates to vocal harmony. Their unique three-part harmony swaddled the second set tracks, “Swinburne Stomp” and “Ah, Sunflower.”  The thought-provoking “End Times” was an Ed Sanders’ tune inspired by a voice mail message about depression by another Woodstock songwriting legend Tom Pacheco, one where Taylor’s vocals gave off a Lou Reed vibe.  In the introduction to the psychedelic “The Garden is Open,” Sanders told how it was The Fugs who gave Jimi Hendrix one of the two prototype wah-wah pedals they were gifted, a few days before he headed off to London and stardom.  Sanders used it to make a rare positive commentary about America: “No country that can invent the wah-wah pedal can be all bad.”

Agreed, Mr. Sanders.

The Fugs continued to dig deep into their beefy discography with the 1966 single, “Frenzy,” and  an update on Tuli’s anti-war classic, “Kill for Peace.”  Another Kupferberg original from the newest disc, the melodic “Protest and Survive,” struck a blow for optimism in the face of our world’s problems, while “Crystal Liaison” was the perfect parody of the psychedelic “hogwash” of the 1960s, with lines like “In the great bowling alley of your mind, I am your Pin Boy.”

As for all the hoopla of this being The Fugs final spin on disc and in concert, it’s not very certain according to producer Petito.  “It seemed like every album since their 1984 was going to be the last,” laughs Petito.  And from the sharpness of his mind and humor and his energy, one can imagine the godly productive Sanders rounding up the troops for another round of musical blows against the empire in the not-too-distant future.

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