CHELSEA have trademarked a new crest and have staked their claim as “London’s true club”.

The new badge, which will NOT replace the current one, features the iconic blue lion above the letters “LDN”.

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The emblem has been released to celebrate the Blues’ 120th anniversary in March.

Reports from the Daily Mail claim the logo will be seen on club branding in the coming months.

Designers Uncommon Creative Studio called it a “new icon designed to show Chelsea as London’s true club.”

They added: “This new visual identity will continue to come to life across the club, stadium and players throughout the season. Stay tuned.”

Chelsea applied to trademark the crest back in August, with other parties given two months to oppose the ruling.

But none of their capital rivals like Tottenham, Arsenal or West Ham objected – despite the Hammers having the word “London” on their badge already.

The emblem is now registered to Chelsea for at least the next ten years.

Fans were split on the design, with one saying: “It’s beautiful.”

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Another added: “I hope they don’t use LDN underneath, use CFC.”

A third commented: “I’m all for the Lion crest. It’s clean and modern but the ‘LDN‘ underneath it feels very franchisey.”

Meanwhile, the club has also applied to trademark the words “Chels” and “The Chels”.

A decision from the UK Intellectual Property Office on those is due next month.

The full card headlined by Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson for the Most Valuable Promotions event at AT&T Stadium just outside Dallas on Nov. 15 has been revealed.

Paul faces Tyson in an eight round heavyweight main event with the card airing live on Netflix for no additional cost to subscribers.

In addition to Paul vs. Tyson, a highly anticipated rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano serves as the 10-round co-main event. Taylor puts all of her super lightweight titles on the line for the rematch after winning a razor-close decision over Serrano in their first encounter.

A WBC welterweight title fight also takes place on the card as reigning champion Mario Barrios takes on Abel Ramos in a 12-round bout. The final fight rounding out the main card pits Neeraj Goyat against Whindersson Nunes in a six-round super middleweight fight.

As for the prelims, Shadasia Green, who counts Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions as her promoter and managers, takes on undefeated contender Melinda Watpool.

Lucas Bahdi clashes with Corey Marskman in a 10-round lightweight fight between two undefeated prospects. Bruce Carrington Jr. rounds out the preliminary card when he faces Dana Coolwell.

The card airs globally on Netflix with the event kicking off at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 15.

Here’s the full card for Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

MAIN CARD

MAIN EVENT: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

Amanda Serrano vs. Katie Taylor

Mario Barrios vs. Abel Ramos

Neeraj Goyat vs. Whindersson Nunes

PRELIMS

Shadasia Green vs. Melinda Watpool

Lucas Bahdi vs. Corey Marksman

Bruce Carrington Jr. vs. Dana Coolwell

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It said Nuno, Gibbs-White and Hurzeler all admitted to their respective charges, with the punishments enforced by the independent regulatory commission.

Forest had asked for more time to prepare a response having initially been given until 27 September.

Nuno apologised for his reaction to the officials, including referee Rob Jones and fourth official Anthony Taylor, and had hoped his contrition would lead to leniency.

However, not only was the Portuguese manager given a two-match ban for this specific incident, a one-game suspended ban – for comments following Forest’s 2-0 defeat at Everton in April – was also activated.

They came after Forest’s controversial social media post which called VAR Stuart Attwell’s integrity into question.

Last week, the club was fined £750,000 for the post, which was seen over 45 million times.

Umar Nurmagomedov no longer will headline ADXC 7 next week in Abu Dhabi.

The UFC bantamweight standout was set to grapple former Bellator champion Eduardo Dantas in a no-gi featherweight match Oct. 25 at Mubadala Arena. The event takes place one day before UFC 308 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, which is headlined by a featherweight title fight between champion Ilia Topuria and Max Holloway.

But Nurmagomedov (18-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) has been pulled from the event, a person with knowledge of the move told MMA Junkie on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because ADXC has not yet made the change official.

No official reason was given for Nurmagomedov’s removal from the event, but in recent weeks rumors about his next UFC fight have ramped up. Although he is gunning for a shot at new champion Merab Dvalishvili, who won the belt from Sean O’Malley at UFC 306, Nurmagomedov also has been linked to a main event in Tampa, Fla., in December against Song Yadong.

Nurmagomedov is fresh off a main event win over Cory Sandhagen at UFC on ABC 7 in August in Abu Dhabi. The undefeated 28-year-old emerged as a title contender and was expected to be Dvalishvili’s first attempted title defense, though the champ reportedly is not yet ready to fight.

Dantas, a two-time Bellator champion, is a second degree jiu-jitsu black belt with seven wins by submission. The 35-year-old Brazilian’s most recent appearance in MMA came in May 2023 – a decision loss to Denis Lavrentyev at RCC 15.

Appropriately timed, reports of a new grappling matchup for the event surfaced Friday with former UFC flyweight standout Muhammad Mokaev against UFC young rising star Raul Rosas Jr., which certainly will take some of the sting off losing Nurmagomedov from the event for fans.

Andrea Iannone will make a surprise MotoGP comeback replacing the injured Fabio di Giannantonio at the VR46 Ducati team for the penultimate grand prix of the 2024 season in Malaysia early next month.

As reported by GPOne, the one-time grand prix winner has received the nod from Valentino Rossi for Sepang, with the agreement of Ducati’s Gigi Dall’Igna. The Italian, who last raced in MotoGP in 2019 before a drugs ban, will head into the Malaysian round without any preparatory test.

GPOne also reported that Ducati test rider Michele Pirro will get the substitute role at the Valencia finale on 15-17 November.

Di Giannantonio announced on Thursday that he would skip the grands prix in Malaysia and Valencia in order to undergo surgery.  

This news puts paid to rumours that Ducati’s WorldSBK rider Nicolo Bugela or Ducati’s satellite SBK rider Danilo Petrucci would step into the breach at VR46. 

Iannone raced seven seasons in MotoGP, including four with Ducati between 2013 and 2016, taking his only victory at the Austrian Grand Prix in that final year. After leaving the Bologna factory he raced two years with Suzuki before signing for Aprilia in 2019.

Fabio Di Giannantonio, VR46 Racing Team

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That season, at the Malaysian GP in fact, Iannone failed a doping test, which led to a four-year ban that could have spelt the end of his top-level motorcycle career. 

Having served the ban, however, he returned to WorldSBK this season with Ducati’s Go Eleven team. He took his first victory at Aragon a few weeks ago and has announced that he will remain for 2025.

The final round of the WorldSBK season takes place at Jerez this weekend. Iannone heads into the finale sitting seventh in the championship.

Di Giannantonio’s decision to undergo surgery two races before the end of the season allows the MotoGP race winner to have work done on the shoulder he injured in an accident at the Austrian GP in August. 

Missing the final two rounds means he should return to full fitness for the start of the 2025 season, where he will remain with VR46 but benefit from an upgrade and ride a factory GP25 Ducati.