• Wilder knocked out by Zhang in likely final pro fight
• Dubois stops Hrgović by TKO for interim heavyweight title
• Liverpool’s Ball becomes WBA featherweight champion

Round 1

There’s the bell! Dubois, looking drier than you normally see fighters right before the first round, gets off to a positive start. He’s holding the center of the ring early and boxing behind a solid jab. Hrgović lands a crisp right cross. Then another. Oh boy. He’s punishing Dubois with the right hand, landing one after the other, turning his aggressive against him. Hrgović has landed no fewer than a half-dozen flush right hands in the first two minutes. Dubois holds on, showing indications of fatigue already.

Teenager continues remarkable rise in an elite field at this weekend’s US Darts Masters at Madison Square Garden

Five days after winning the Premier League Darts title by vanquishing world No 1 Luke Humphries with a sensational nine-dart finish before a mass of 14,000 roaring spectators inside London’s O₂ Arena, Luke Littler has found himself up against a far less forgiving opponent on Tuesday afternoon: Manhattan’s snarling rush-hour traffic.

An all-day media spree pinballing around New York City to promote this weekend’s US Darts Masters at Madison Square Garden has careened off the rails after the hired driver of Littler’s black Cadillac Escalade ESV went to the wrong location for a live in-studio appearance on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour podcast, leaving the show’s genial host treading water on air. When he finally arrives at the Financial District offices nearly 40 minutes late, the 17-year-old sensation known as Luke the Nuke calmly slides into his chair on set while an entourage including his parents, girlfriend and best mate crowd into the green room to watch, all of them smarting from the same lesson every New York neophyte absorbs early on: the subway is always faster.

• Detective faces ‘corrective action’ following investigation
• Scheffler faces charges including felony after US PGA incident

The Louisville Metro police ­department has taken ­“corrective action” against an officer who arrested Scottie Scheffler before the second round of the US PGA Championship last week. The ­department said the officer failed to activate his body-worn camera (BWC) during the arrest.

The police chief, Jacquelyn Gwinn-­Villaroel, said at a news ­conference on Thursday that the LMPD ­detective Bryan Gillis violated the ­department’s body-cam policy, which says ­officers are required to ­“maintain their BWC in a constant state of operational readiness”.

Indiana’s rookie star has been thrown into the WNBA cauldron 38 days after her final college game. How much is too much?

The Caitlin Clark Experience did not disappoint when it came through Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon. After a rocky start to her professional career, the Indiana Fever rookie showed glimpses of why she turned women’s basketball into appointment television during her record-breaking run at the University of Iowa.

She was all over the court against the New York Liberty, scoring 10 of her team’s 19 first points with a flurry of pull-up threes and slashing lay-ups, whipping one-handed passes to create opportunities for her teammates and prompting deafening roars from a packed crowd, drowning out the scattered boobirds. She was cooled off after leading all scorers with 15 points at half-time by a platoon of defenders led by Betnijah Laney-Hamilton, a wily veteran eight years Clark’s senior, but not before depositing one of her signature 30-footers.