Ethan Page was about a half-second away from pulling off an incredible upset over Penta and winning the Intercontinental Championship at Saturday Night’s Main Event.

Penta showed Page, a former NXT champion and the longest reigning NXT North American champion in the brand’s history, that he needed to do more than a few hard slams and exposed turnbuckles to beat him.

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Penta dives onto Ethan Page during Saturday Night’s Main Event at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind., on May 23, 2026. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

Page gave Penta all he had. He threw Penta into the exposed turnbuckle and tried to take advantage with a schoolboy roll up. While the referee tried to put one turnbuckle back together, he noticed Page’s pin attempt but only got to two. “All Ego” was upset and got into the referee’s face, allowing Penta to take advantage.

Penta avoided Page as he crashed into the ropes and bounced off the middle rope to hit a Mexican Destroyer. He pinned Page for the win.

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Ethan Page shows frustration with Penta during Saturday Night’s Main Event at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind., on May 23, 2026. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

Penta has been the champion since March 2, after he beat Dominik Mysterio on “Monday Night Raw.” The win over Page marked his seventh successful title defense, including a six-way ladder match at WrestleMania 42.

Page was impressive throughout the match. He flipped Penta over his head and onto the announce table in the middle of the match. He got back into the ring but realized that he wouldn’t be able to win the title if Penta was counted out.

He stopped the referee’s 10 count and used the ring posts to his advantage before he rolled Penta back into the ring. But the Mexican high-flyer was too much to handle.

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Page received the opportunity to face Penta over guys like Rusev and Je’Von Evans. Penta is going to have no shortage of challengers for his title as the weeks wear on.

Penta enters the ring during Saturday Night’s Main Event at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on May 23, 2026. (Cooper Neil/WWE)

Saturday Night’s Main Event results:

• Jade Cargill, Michin and B-Fab def. Rhea Ripley, Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss.
• Sol Ruca def. Becky Lynch via DQ.
• Paige and Brie Bella (c) def. Lash Legend and Nia Jax to retain the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship.
• Logan Paul and Austin Theory def. Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins to retain the World Tag Team Championship.

Thomas Tuchel has confirmed that Alex Scott, Josh King, Rio Ngumoha and Ethan Nwaneri will join up with the England squad for two warm-up friendlies ahead of the World Cup.

Tuchel has named his 26-man squad for the tournament in North America, but not all of those included will be able to be integrated immediately as they conclude their club seasons.

Arsenal’s quartet – Eberechi Eze, Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka and Noni Madueke – will be involved in the Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain on 30 May and will have a delayed arrival into camp, while Crystal Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson is set to feature in the Conference League decider on 27 May.

England will travel to Florida to prepare for the tournament, with friendlies scheduled against New Zealand and Costa Rica on 6 and 10 June respectively.

To ensure he has a full squad to pick from and manage the minutes of a number of key players, Tuchel has moved to bring four youngsters and one experienced professional into his squad to build out numbers in and around the friendlies and training.

Nwaneri, 19, has been drafted in after he spent the second half of the season on loan at Ligue 1 Marseille.

Bournemouth’s Scott has enjoyed an excellent season and was included in the 55-man longlist for England’s World Cup selection, while Fulham midfielder King and Liverpool winger Ngumoha have also shown signs of real promise in the Premier League.

A statement on England’s official X account said: “Ethan Nwaneri will join our Three Lions preparation camp in Florida ahead of the FIFA World Cup.”

The teenager made 12 senior appearances for the Gunners this season before heading for France, where he made a further 10, six of them from the bench.

Additionally, Tuchel confirmed that Brighton’s Jason Steele will be with the squad as a training goalkeeper having operated in a similar role previously.

“We will take some young players out who will train with us and keep the squad at the size we need so we have all the possibilities for the two friendly matches to take care about the minutes and load of the players,” Tuchel explained.

“Alex Scott is confirmed, Rio Ngumoha is confirmed, and Josh King, and there will be one more player which we cannot name because it has not been confirmed yet.

“I am happy that these guys are with us, especially Alex who was on the list of 55 and had a disappointing phone call as well that he didn’t make the first cut. But the reaction of him was outstanding, the commimtment and wish to be in pre-camp and be a step closer to the team – it was not even a question for him. It showed me his character and his spirit and I am delighted he is with us because it was close call. He gets a chance to take a step closer and get a cap.”

The England squad, minus those players involved in European finals, is due to meet up in Palm Beach on June 1.

Tuchel’s men will play two warm-up fixtures – against New Zealand in Tampa and Costa Rica in Orlando – before moving to their tournament base in Kansas City on June 13.

England open their Group L campaign against Croatia in Dallas on June 17 and will then face Ghana in Boston six days later before their final group clash with Panama in New Jersey on June 27.

First Published: May 24 2026 | 12:12 PM IST

After watching back the controversial ending to his fight with Oleksandr Usyk, Rico Verhoeven wants some big questions answered.

Few gave the Dutchman a realistic chance heading into the fight beneath the Pyramids of Giza, given the fact that the kickboxing great had entered the bout with just one previous professional boxing appearance and was facing a pound-for-pound great in Usyk.

Instead, the 37-year-old challenger produced a performance that troubled the unified champion throughout, using relentless pressure and awkward timing to build what many viewers believed was a lead on the scorecards.

The turning point came in the eleventh round, when Usyk landed a sharp uppercut that sent Verhoeven through the ropes. Though visibly hurt, ‘The King of Kickboxing’ returned to his feet and continued fighting before referee Mark Lyson waved the contest off during a barrage on the ropes with just, according to the official result, one second remaining in the round.

Verhoeven’s camp has since questioned both the timing and nature of the stoppage, insisting the challenger should have been allowed to survive the final seconds and come out for the twelfth round.

Speaking to Boxing News, he said that an appeal is now likely.

“To be completely honest, I just saw the end, because of all the comments I was reading. They stopped the fight after the bell. So the bell went, then they stopped the fight. I think we might just go and appeal it, because this doesn’t make any sense, right? If the bell goes and then stop the fight, why? Then it’s my time to rest.”

Indeed, many videos appear to show the final call from referee Mark Lyson coming after the bell, though further clarity is required, particularly given that the clock was stopped briefly following the knockdown for Verhoeven’s mouthpiece to be reinserted.

Asked how hurt he was, the former undisputed kickboxing champion – who was up on one card and level on the other two at the time of the stoppage – said he felt good enough to carry on.

“Yeah, I got the eight-count. It was a good eight-count. It was needed. But [once I was up] I heard the [clapper], so I was like ‘f**k, we got ten seconds, keep on the move, hands up and catch the shots.’ And I feel like that’s what I was doing. That’s why, when the referee came in, I wasn’t dazzled or whatever. I was looking at the referee. Why did you stop it? We’re almost there.

“It didn’t make any sense to me, and now looking back at it, the bell went. That’s something he should be aware of. Of course, mistakes can be made, but looking back at it, the referee needs to admit his mistake. It’s either a no contest or we go to the scorecards, and if we do that, I was ahead.”

Finally, Verhoeven reflected on the fight as a whole and how it feels to have silenced a significant number of doubters.

“I had fun. I had so much fun. It was incredible to be a part of history … We had an amazing gameplan and it worked. I’m super proud, super happy with it. Of course I’m going to look back at it and think I could have done things a little better. But he had both hands full, and he’s been the undisputed champion. I didn’t see any boxer do that to him till tonight. So I’m super proud of myself, but also bittersweet.”

Though Usyk has a WBC mandatory challenger, Agit Kabayel, waiting, many are now calling for a rematch, regardless of how Verhoeven’s appeal plays out.

The NASCAR world is paying tribute to Kyle Busch this weekend, and that includes some classy ones from two series in which the late driver had a lot of success.

While Busch — who passed away Thursday after “severe pneumonia [that] progressed into sepsis” — had been a full-time driver in NASCAR’s top series, the Cup Series, for more than 20 years, he still competed occasionally in both the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and the Craftsman Truck Series.

He was especially known for his dominance in the Truck Series, winning 69 of his 184 races, and at one point owned a team. In fact, the final win of Busch’s career came just under a week before his death in a Truck Series race at Dover.

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Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 7 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, is introduced before the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series SpeedyCash.com 250 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 1, 2026. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)

On Friday, the Truck Series was in Charlotte as part of the Coca-Cola 600 weekend for a race that Busch was supposed to take part in.

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Corey Day was in the No. 7 Chevrolet for Spire Motorsports, the truck in which Busch took his final win, and it was set to start on pole after Friday’s qualifying was rained out.

Kyle Busch celebrates the final win of his NASCAR career at Dover Motor Speedway. (Photo by David Hahn/Icon Sportswire)

Before the race was set to begin on Friday evening, teams and fans held a moment of silence for Busch.

Unfortunately, the race never got underway and was postponed until Saturday morning and then again to Saturday night.

The O’Reilly Autoparts Series, which Busch raced in many times and won many times during his career, also took a moment to remember him before their race at Charlotte on Saturday.

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That race was also suspended due to rain.

There will be some heavy hearts on Sunday when the Coca-Cola 600, the NASCAR Cup Series’ longest race of the year, gets started at 6 p.m. ET.

Mikal Bridges has gone from zero to hero for the New York Knicks, and the first part of that adage is no figure of speech. It seems like a lifetime ago now, but Bridges literally went for zero points in New York’s Game 3 loss vs. Atlanta. It was the low point of Bridges’ New York tenure, and the Knicks looked like they were in real danger of what would’ve been a disastrous first-round upset. 

My how things have changed. 

Since that time the Knicks have 10 straight playoff games — three straight to finish the Hawks, then four more in a sweep of Philadelphia, and now they’ve gone up 3-0 on the Cavs in the Eastern Conference Finals after a 121-108 victory on Saturday. One more win and New York is in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999.

Bridges isn’t the hero of this run, but he’s one of them. And given the way this was going, and how mercilessly his name was being dragged through the mud for the five-pick price the Knicks paid to get him, it makes this a cool story on a deeper level than just basketball. 

Let’s get the numbers, which are almost hilarious. Over his last eight games, dating back to the clincher against the Hawks in which he had 24 points on 10-of-12 shooting, Bridges has averaged 19.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.3 steals on on 69/48/100 shooting splits. 

No player in history has matched those shooting numbers over an eight-game playoff stretch while averaging at least 15 PPG, and Bridges is averaging damn near 20. This has literally never been seen before. Even if you toss out all the other numbers except the field-goal percentage LeBron James is the only other player in history who has won 10 straight playoff games while making half his shots. 

And there is no sign of Bridges slowing down. On Saturday, he hung 22 points, six rebounds, three steals, two assists and a pair of blocks on the Cavs while making 11 of his 15 shots. 

It’s impossible to have watched Bridges over this stretch and not notice the dramatic shift in his approach. Look at the reel above again. Every shot is from the free-throw line down. Eight at the rim. Two mid-range pull-ups. A couple floaters. This has been an ongoing theme as Bridges has cut his 3-point attempt rate from 5.1 per game in the regular season to under three per game in the playoffs. So much for the midrange game being dead. 

It has been a long time since we have seen Bridges in this kind of attack mode. Look here in Game 2 as he flares out to catch a pass at the 3-point line, where he has daylight if he wants to launch a shot. Instead, he uses a pick from Mitchell Robinson to probe his way into the paint for a much more efficient floater. 

Again in Game 2, he catches at the top and the instant he senses Max Strus anticipating a dribble handoff he turns downhill and finishes a lofting bank shot over Evan Mobley. 

That is a confident move. The Bridges that was putting up bagels early against the Hawks just does the DHO and fades back out to the perimeter. This Bridges is different. He’s hunting scoring opportunities. Turning corners on a mission. Sprinting ahead in transition. Pull up on a dime. 

This is a guy who took just three shots in that scoreless game against Atlanta. On Saturday he fired up 15, and he hasn’t taken fewer than 10 since Game 5 of the first round. Since that time, he has made an absurd 89.7% of his shots inside the restricted area (35 for 39), 61.7% in the paint (13 of 21), and 56.3% in the midrange (9 of 16). 

“I told [Bridges] and OG [Anunoby], because I don’t call a ton of play-calls, you guys got to find different ways to impose your will on the game,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said on Saturday. “They’re both doing a phenomenal job of imposing their will on the game.”

That’s a great way to put it in the context of this Knicks team overall. Everything is flowing right now. The whole team is in an unbelievable rhythm, and when that’s happening, you don’t have to call a lot of plays. The ball just moves, guys attack, draw help, kick, swing, nobody is standing still, and Bridges is in the thick of it all. Look at his impact before and after that Game 6 breakout against the Hawks — from a minus-11 player to a plus-144. 

Oh by the way, he’s playing incredible defense, too. 

This is while being matched up against the likes of Tyrese Maxey, James Harden and Jalen Johnson. None of these guys have fared well against Bridges, who was an elite defender in Phoenix but has, or had, declined on that end as he became more offensive-minded. This looks like the best of both Bridges, the two-way guy who was deemed important enough to this multi-year Knicks championship push that they traded those five picks for him. That trade has been clowned as maybe the biggest overpay in recent history. Right now, it’s looking like they might have actually gotten a bargain.