Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay should look a little bigger this season.
Denver Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay said during a Zoom conference call with media members Tuesday that he has gained 10 pounds of muscle this offseason. Lindsay is currently listed as 190 pounds on the Broncos’ roster, putting him 17 pounds behind Melvin Gordon and 48 pounds behind Royce Freeman.
Lindsay suffered a wrist injury at the end of his rookie season and that injury limited his ability to put on weight before the 2019 season.
“That wrist injury really did a toll on me when it came to working out,” Lindsay said. “I came from having to sit out 4-5 months to just rushing right into camp. So I didn’t get the development that I did like this year.
“So I feel really good. I feel healthy, I feel explosive, and I feel like I’m going to have a hell of a season this year.”
Lindsay is the first undrafted player in NFL history to have back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons to begin his career. Lindsay is expected to share touches with Gordon this season.
Mike Dolce confident Jorge Masvidal will make weight for UFC 251 main event with no problem, but will Kamaru Make it without issue? See what Mike thinks here in the video.
Mike Dolce confident Jorge Masvidal will make weight for UFC 251 main event with no problem, but will Kamaru Make it without issue? See what Mike thinks here in the video.
“Look, I’m not proud that I wrote this,” Ruiz wrote. “But you clicked on it, so obviously it’s something YOU are interested in, too, so let’s not pass any judgment here. Okay?”
Ruiz clearly had some time on his hands when he pitted the league’s signal-callers against each other based on his very odd metrics. Curious where Seahawks QB Russell Wilson landed on the list?
All the way down at No. 18.
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“This is actually a decent look, but I think this is where Wilson’s height hurts him,” Ruiz writes. “It’s not just that he’s shorter than most starting quarterbacks; it’s that he’s also wider than most quarterbacks. I can’t get that picture of him in the Hawaiian shirt out of my head.”
Not sure whether or not Wilson’s height and width have much to do with his dorkiness level, however, if finds a way to take Seattle to the Super Bowl this year, that would make him the coolest quarterback in the league.
Callum Smith outpointed John Ryder over 12 rounds in their super middleweight fight, but questions about boxing’s integrity have flared up.
Boxing’s gutter of bad decisions just got a bit more crowded.
It didn’t matter that super middleweight titleholder Callum Smith was bleeding from cuts, breathing heavily and getting battered on the ropes late in a 12-round fight. In the end, he still won a unanimous decision over mandatory challenger John Ryder at Echo Park Arena in Liverpool.
The scores were 117-111, 116-112 and 116-112, which added up to yet another controversial result. Boxing Junkie scored it 116-112 in favor of Ryder.
It was supposed to be a showcase of sorts for the Liverpudlian Smith (27-0, 19 knockouts), who had not fought at home in nearly two years. It was anything but. The much shorter Ryder, a big underdog, consistently beat the 6-foot-3 Smith to the punch, outworking him on the inside, where he wailed away with convincing body shots. Later on, Ryder began mixing in hooks to the head. It was a breakout performance from Ryder (28-5, 16 KOs), who had previously lost to Billy Joe Saunders and Rocky Fielding and had mulled retirement at various times in his career.
Callum Smith (left) did enough to impress the judges but many viewers weren’t as convinced about his performance against John Ryder. Alex Livesey / Getty Images
“You know what, I got in there with the world No. 1 and I thought i just edged it,” a disappointed Ryder said afterward. “I didn’t do it tonight, but I thought I proved myself on the world stag. … I thought I forced the fight a lot. I thought he was just nicking rounds. I feel I did enough to win that.”
Smith looked sluggish. Though he was able to keep Ryder at bay with his jab early on, by the second half of the fight, Smith was drowning on the ropes as Ryder pressed harder and landed the cleaner shots. In Round 4, an inadvertent headbutt opened a cut above Smith’s right eye, but it hardly instilled a sense of urgency in Smith, who seemed to fight in one gear throughout the fight. Smith admitted as much in the post-fight interview.
“Early on I found it a little bit too easy,” Smith said. “I was in first gear for a little bit too long. Everything thing I was throwing was landing. When he was closing the distant I probably have dealt with it better. He’s very, very short and he got very close to me. He smothered me, and I allowed him to.”
Smith, the titleholder, emerged with a unanimous decision victory over a game John Ryder on Saturday in Liverpool. Alex Livesey /Getty Images
By Round 5, a noticeable mark appeared below Smith’s right eye. Though Smith had a very good Round 6, in which he landed several straight rights, Ryder began to pull away in the second half. The left hook that Smith is known for sailed over Ryder’s head all fight long. Round 8 saw Ryder tag Smith with a blistering combination to end the round.
“I knew (Ryder) was a tough fighter,” Smith said. “I knew it was going to be that kind of fight. He’s good at getting really close. He stopped me from doing what I’m good at. It wasn’t the best performance. But I thought I won most of the early rounds. I thought I only lost one or only two out of the first eight. He worked hard — I give him his due — at the end. … I think I was due for a bad one. It was the first time I got cut in a fight. … I’ll be better fighter because of it.”
Smith seemed to hint that his poor performance was a result of not facing one of the elite fighters in the division.
“There was no fear tonight,” he said. “I didn’t believe John Ryder was good enough to beat me. The fights that bring the best out of me are the top four (in the division). That’s what I want now. I want the big names. … I just want a big name where that fear brings out the better in me.”
Super middleweight titleholder Callum Smith and challenger John Ryder both made weight for Saturday’s fight in Liverpool.
Super middleweight titleholder Callum Smith and mandatory challenger John Ryder made weight Friday for their fight Saturday at Echo Arena in Smith’s hometown of Liverpool, England on DAZN.
Both Smith and Ryder weighed in at 167.4, .6 under the 168-pound limit.
Smith (26-0, 19 knockouts) won his title by a seventh-round knockout of countryman George Groves in the World Boxing Super series final in September of last year. He has only had one fight since then, a third-round stoppage of Hassan N’Dam in June on the undercard of Anthony Joshua-Andy Ruiz Jr. in New York City.
Ryder (28-4, 16 KOs) has won four consecutive fights since his split-decision loss to Rocky Fielding in 2017. In his last fight, he stopped Bilal Akkawy inside three rounds in May on the Canelo Alvarez-Daniel Jacobs undercard.
