VICTOR BONIFACE was involved in a terrifying car accident after Bayer Leverkusen’s Bundesliga victory on Saturday.

The Nigeria international posted photos on his social media showing the wreckage from the collision.

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Boniface, 23, appeared to be taken to hospital after the incident as he shared a selfie from a hospital bed.

Fortunately, the star appears to have avoided serious injury as he took to X to share an update with his followers.

He simply wrote: “God is the greatest”.

Boniface didn’t escape completely unscathed, however.

The former Union SG striker posted a video of his bloodied hand which appeared to have been badly cut during the accident.

The same video showed just how bad the damage was to his car with the front bonnet completely smashed in.

Boniface had played for Leverkusen just hours before the incident as Xabi Alonso‘s side beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1.

The bagsman even found the back of the net, scoring the winner in the 71st minute.

Boniface’s crash comes just a matter of days after being locked in an abandoned airport with the Nigerian national team for 18 HOURS.

Nigerian players and staff were left without food, water or access to phone connections at the abandoned airport which had its gates locked.

The unbelievable moment happened prior to the Super Eagles Africa Cup of Nations clash with Libya.

The match was ultimately postponed following the whole ordeal.

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Wales will be without several key players for the autumn, with Cardiff pair Josh Adams and Taulupe Faletau both expected to miss all three Tests.

Exeter lock Dafydd Jenkins and Dragons hooker Elliot Dee also miss out through injury, while Dragons number eight Aaron Wainwright is in a race to be fit after recovering from a hamstring injury.

Scarlets scrum-half Gareth Davies is unavailable after announcing his international retirement.

“Firstly, we’re looking for good men, men who want to be part of a team, who are prepared to go to the well and dig deep,” said Gatland.

“A lot of players, particularly the younger ones, don’t always know the limits of what they can do, and how hard and far they can push themselves at the highest level.

“For a number of them they realise pretty quickly that the step up to international rugby is massive in terms of pace, physicality and intensity. I’ve always said as a coach that you can’t coach ‘experience’ – it has to be learned just by being out there and playing.”

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 245 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $155,500.

The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the previous payments made under the UFC Athlete Outfitting Policy.

UFC Fight Night 245 took place at the UFC Apex. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 245 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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Anthony Hernandez: $6,000
def. Michel Pereira: $11,000

Rob Font: $16,000
def. Kyler Phillips: $6,000

Charles Johnson: $6,000
def. Su Mudaerji: $6,000

Cameron Smotherman: $4,000
def. Jake Hadley: $6,000

Darren Elkins: $21,000
def. Daniel Pineda: $11,000

Asu Almabayev: $4,500
def. Matheus Nicolau: $11,000

Jean Matsumoto: $4,000
def. Brad Katona: $6,000

Joselyne Edwards: $6,000
def. Tamires Vidal: $4,500

Elise Reed: $6,000
def. Jessica Penne: $4,000

Melissa Martinez: $4,000
def. Alice Ardelean: $4,000

Austen Lane: $4,500
def. Robelis Despaigne: $4,000

Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers, which appropriate the money generated by Venum’s multi-year sponsorship with the UFC, fighters are paid based on their total number of UFC bouts, as well as Zuffa-era WEC fights (January 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2451 and later). Fighters with 1-3 bouts receive $4,000 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,500; 6-10 bouts get $6,000; 11-15 bouts earn $11,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $16,000; and 21 bouts and more get $21,000. Additionally, champions earn $42,000 while title challengers get $32,000.

In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-30 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.

Full 2024 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

• “UFC Fight Night 245: Hernandez vs. Pereira” – $155,500
• “UFC Fight Night 244: Royval vs. Taira” – $186,000
• “UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr.” – $407,500
• “UFC Fight Night 243: Moicano vs. Saint Denis” – $173,500
• “UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC” – $239,500
• “UFC Fight Night 242: Burns vs. Brady” – $157,500
• “UFC on ESPN 62: Cannonier vs. Borralho” – $166,500
• “UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya” – $243,500
• “UFC on ESPN 61: Tybura vs. Spivac 2” – $128,000
• “UFC on ABC 7: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov” – $211,000
• “UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2” – $307,500
• “UFC on ESPN 60: Lemos vs. Jandiroba” – $139,000
• “UFC on ESPN 59: Namajunas vs. Cortez” – $180,500
• “UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2”, – $311,500
• “UFC on ABC 6: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov” – $186,000
• “UFC on ESPN 58: Perez vs. Taira” – $116,000
• “UFC on ESPN 57: Cannonier vs. Imavov” – $186,500
• “UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier” – $281,500
• “UFC Fight Night 241: Barboza vs. Murphy” – $158,500
• “UFC on ESPN 56: Lewis vs. Nascimento” – $186,000
• “UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg” – $280,000
• “UFC on ESPN 55: Nicolau vs. Perez” – $175,000
• “UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill” – $460,000
• “UFC Fight Night 240: Allen vs. Curtis 2” – $162,500
• “UFC on ESPN 54: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot” – $173,000
• “UFC on ESPN 53: Ribas vs. Namajunas” – $148,000
• “UFC Fight Night 239: Tuivasa vs. Tybura” – $189,500
• “UFC 299: O’Malley vs. Vera 2” – $359,000
• “UFC Fight Night 238: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev” – $133,500
• “UFC Fight Night 237: Moreno vs. Royval 2” – $135,500
• “UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria” – $243,000
• “UFC Fight Night 236: Hermansson vs. Pyfer” – $236,500
• “UFC Fight Night 235: Dolidze vs. Imavov” – $170,500
• “UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis” – $285,500
• “UFC Fight Night 234: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2” – $159,500

Year-to-date total: $6,644,000
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $29,381,000

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 245.

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SIR Chris Hoy has relived the earth-shattering appointment where he found out he had cancer.

The six-time Olympic gold medallist, 48, announced yesterday he has just four years to live.

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He kept his terminal diagnosis a secret for a year and has described how his world “fell apart in one sentence”.

Sir Chris had announced in February he was being “treated for cancer” and claimed it was going well – though knew in reality it was just “management”.

The star had gone to the doctor in late September last year after feeling a strain in his shoulder.

A tumour was found, before a second scan discovered the primary cancer in his prostate.

It had metastasised to Sir Chris’s bones – including his shoulder, pelvis, ribs, and spine.

Speaking of the appointment in which he found out about the tumour, he told the Sunday Times he thought “I’m just getting a bit old for lifting heavy weights”.

Referred by his physiotherapist for a scan, he went to hospital alone, expecting to be told to lay off upper-body work in the gym for a few weeks.

“I’m really sorry,” the doctor told him. The nurse’s eyes filled with tears. “There’s a tumour in your shoulder.”

Heartbreakingly, Sir Chris’ wife Sarra was told she had incurable and degenerative MS just weeks before his cancer news – with the couple opting not to tell the kids about their mother’s illness.

They took them away for a half term holiday this week, hoping that the “dust will have settled” on Sir Chris’ bombshell interview by they time they return to school.

And despite his terminal diagnosis, the Team GB legend has continued his media duties, including covering the Paris Olympics for the Beeb over the summer.

He is currently in Copenhagen covering the World Track Cycling Championships for the BBC – and will be on TV this afternoon.

Today he has posted a photo alongside some of the broadcasting team from the Ballerup Super Arena and said it’s “great to be out”.

He told fans: “You may see in the news this weekend some articles about my health, so I just wanted to reassure you all that I’m feeling fit, strong and positive, and overwhelmed by all the love and support shown to my family and me.”

Sir Chris began chemo in November last year and recalled how 10-year-old son Callum kept asking if he’d lose his hair.

As a result, he wore a cold cap – which feels “like your head being in a vice” – during all six rounds over 18 weeks.

He said that it was the worst pain he’s ever experienced, adding while grinning sheepishly: “And I’ve got a very high pain threshold.”

Sir Chris and Sarra told their children about the cancer during dinner one night, to which Callum asked: “Are you going to die?”

The former Olympian explained the medication would hopefully mean he would “be here for many, many years”.

The sportsman suffered a violent allergic reaction in gruelling chemo sessions – but only missed five days of training on a bike.

The Prime Minister has said “the whole country” is behind Sir Chris Hoy following his terminal cancer diagnosis.

Sir Keir Starmer tweeted on Sunday: “Such sad news.

“Chris is a British sporting legend. To face his diagnosis with such positivity is inspiring.

“The whole country is behind him and his family.”

Sir Mark Cavendish, who holds the record for most stages won in the Tour de France, hailed Sir Chris as a “hero of a human being”.

Amy Joy Williams, MBE, the British former skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist, added: “A pure superhuman who everyone loves. x”

And, Paddy McGuinness shared: “Some man”, as Dame Kelly Holmes wrote: “Sending love to you Chris.” While comedian Jack Whitehall penned: “Sending you all the love mate.”

All That Matters: My Toughest Race Yet by Sir Chris Hoy is published on November 7.

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