After his UFC fight in China ended with an illegal knee by his opponent, Ireland’s Kiefer Crosbie has criticized referee Marc Goddard.
In the first round, Chinese prospect Taiyilake Nueraji struck Crosbie with a knee while he was seated, but he lost two points.
After a brief period of recovery, Goddard asked Crosbie if he was okay to continue fighting.
Crosbie, 35, called it a “ridiculous call” and questioned why he wasn’t given five minutes to recover.
“Marc Goddard, I didn’t get five minutes, why?” He wrote on Instagram, “Forty five seconds ago, I couldn’t even see straight or recall what happened.”
“Playing with my life is ridiculous because I was going to continue because that’s what fighters do,” I said. “It’s obvious I was going to continue because that’s what fighters do.”
Instead of removing points for an illegal blow, which has only happened three times before in the UFC, Goddard could have chosen to disqualify Nueraji.
A doctor has up to five minutes to decide whether a fighter can continue fighting in violation of UFC rules, and a referee can do so “as soon as is practicable.”
In that situation, fighters are given up to five minutes to recover, as they are under the low-fliction rule, with the match resuming when the referee accepts the fighter to go back to normal.
Crosbie had a brief recovery period of less than a minute before regaining his momentum.
The doctor in the octagon gave the Irishman an evaluation, and he assured Goddard that he was fine to continue.
The Irishman nodded his head in reply when Goddard asked if he wanted to keep the fight.
Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping and other members of the commentary team initially believed Nueraji would be disqualified and the fight would be stopped, but Goddard praised his decision to keep going.
Former fighter Laura Sanko praised Marc Goddard on commentary, saying “Perfectly handled by him because Kiefer Crosbie had the right to say “no, I can’t continue” and that he would have won the DQ if he had done that.
Bisping continued, “Very expertly handed.”
With three defeats in a row, Crosbie’s UFC career is in jeopardy due to the loss.
Crosbie’s last MMA victory outside of the UFC occurred in 2023, when he was an underdog in the first round.
Crosbie claimed in his Instagram post comments that he thought Goddard was a top-notch referee.
“I asked backstage after the fight how come a doctor didn’t come in and check me, and they told me he did.” He claimed that he recalls none of it.
“And don’t get me wrong, I’ve said this before and it’s obvious that Marc is one of the best, if not the best, referees in the game.”
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Iqbal Solangi, a resident of Karachi, is in his small home as a new wave of cloudbursts, monsoon rains, and floods wreak havoc across Pakistan. He is grieving for those who lost their loved ones, their homes, and their livestock.
More than 800 people have died as a result of a heavier-than-usual monsoon that followed floods and landslides, damaged at least 7,225 homes, washed away more than 5,500 livestock, and caused the country’s widespread crop destruction.
Although it is still unknown what caused the floods, climate change, and other factors may have played a role in the deluge. Pakistan, one of the top 10 most vulnerable countries for climate change, contributes less than 1% of global emissions, but it is one of the top 10 most vulnerable countries.
After the 2010 and 2012 floods, Solangi had already left farming and had already put an end to his climate-change-forced exile in 2022. He had also experienced another major debt loss, this time due to the flooding.
Due to climate change, his forefathers’ jobs had become unsustainable, so he relocated to Karachi in 2012. He had already moved from a small village on the border of Sindh and Balochistan provinces. Three decades of farming were abruptly put to an end by the displacement.
When I was sitting in a high chair and watching the water go away, I decided I would never go back, Solangi said of the 2022 floods, which had impacted 33 million people and flooded 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of agricultural land.
A day after flash floods, locals gather wood from Noseri Dam near Muzaffarabad.
According to data from 2022, Pakistan ranked first among the countries on the list of the most affected according to the Climate Rate Index report from 2025. More than 1, 700 people were killed by extensive flooding in the following region of the nation: 9 million people were in poverty, caused $ 14. 8 billion in economic losses, and caused $ 15. 2 billion in damage.
The monsoon has changed from a source of beauty and renewal to a source of chaos and despair, according to an article in Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper in August. What was once filled with joy now fills the void.”
More than 600 people died as a result of a heatwave and thousands of more floods were affected by the heatwave last year. The over 13 000 plus glaciers in Pakistan are being forced to melt due to the country’s rising temperatures, which raises the risk of flooding, property loss, damage to infrastructure, loss of life, and water shortage.
According to Pakistan’s Bureau of Statistics (PBS), agriculture still accounts for roughly 24 percent of Pakistan’s gross domestic product (GDP). Agriculture, which makes up more than 37 percent of the workforce, provides 40 million people with a means of earning a living.
The Pakistani minister of climate change warned that the melting of the glaciers would have “catastrophic consequences for Pakistan’s agricultural economy” in an interview with Al Jazeera earlier this year.
If these gushing floods wash away our infrastructure and wreak havoc on agricultural lands, the government lacks the resources to provide for such a large portion of the population because they work in agriculture. The potential for destruction is enormous, according to Musadiq Malik, both economically and agriculturally.
Agriculture’s sector posted a modest 0.6 percent growth rate this year, which is significantly below the target 2 percent and significantly below the 6.4% growth rate that was previously announced.
Between 1950 and 2012, according to a recent study published in the Nature journal, the Indus Plain in Pakistan experienced 19 flood disasters that affected an area of almost 600,000 square kilometers (231, 661.3 miles), resulting in 11, 239 fatalities, and causing more than $ 39 billion in economic damage. After 2000, all of those things happened.
PBS’s shared data shows a rise in farmland numbers in Pakistan over the past few years, from 8.6 million in 2010 to 11.7 million last year, with an exception of Punjab, which is increasing across all provinces. Farmers have been greatly impacted by changes in the rain patterns, though.
Basharat Jamal still cultivates his land in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but he claims that droughts have nearly eliminated his crop over the past ten years.
Jamal, who earns a small sum of money as a supplement to his income, claims that the area has been put in double jeopardy as a result of the shift from farming practices. Many farmers are moving to urban centers to find work because their income and output have drastically decreased. Additionally, some farmers now own livestock, which eat away at their unprotected crops due to lack of fodder.
Major crops like wheat and cotton, which are now considered to be in decline, decreased by 13.5 percent, limiting the overall GDP growth rate by 0.6%, according to the Pakistan Economic Survey 2024-25.
Farming is now equivalent to “gambling with nature.”
Farmers in Pakistan’s largest province, Balochistan, say farming in an unpredictable climate is “like gambling with nature” as a result of the frequent floods and droughts that have forced him to cross several states.
Despite “watching helplessly our crops wither and fail year after year,” he has continued to farm.
We had no choice but to leave our ancestral homeland and cross the world in search of survival ten years ago, Hashim said. Then, in 2022, the devastating floods struck. Everything that we rebuilt was left standing. Our fields once more were destroyed. We relocated once more the following year. We briefly found some tranquility.
On my farm and in a shop, I worked. Our kids returned to school, and things started to feel normal.
Farmers who abandoned their land and moved to cities as a result of the 2022 floods, according to the Migration Policy Institute, were among the more than 8 million people who were displaced by the floods.
In a report on the 2022 floods, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) stated that Pakistan will face “a crucial, trying year,” with growing macroeconomic and fiscal concerns, a cost-of-living crisis affecting the most vulnerable, and cataclysmic floods whose threats were multiplied by climate change.
However, he was forced to relocate soon after the drought, but he quickly resigned.
He said, “My farming days would be over one year when there are floods and drought,” adding that if this pattern continued.
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Over the past two months, Francesca Jones from Great Britain has crossed off a number of milestones.
The 24-year-old won the biggest title of her career at a WTA 125 contest in Contrexeville, France, just over six weeks ago.
In Palermo, a second triumph at that level, the rung below the main tour, was swiftly followed.
That enabled her to reach the top 100 for the first time, eventually putting her in 86th place.
After going through three rounds of qualifying as the top seed, she has now made her first main draw appearance at the US Open.
A productive season awaits Jones in New York when she meets German Eva Lys on Tuesday.
She won victories at the WTA 75 events in Varcaria and Prague, qualified for her first WTA 1000 event in Madrid, and placed first in the Nottingham and Eastbourne WTA Tour events.
After going through three rounds of qualifying in New York before the main draw, Jones wanted to call his parents, who are both currently living in the UK, Adele and Simon.
Why didn’t they get to see their daughter in person? because they were unable to find a dog sitter.
After securing her spot in the main draw in New York, Jones said, “My parents don’t get to travel with me everywhere. I made sure I can share those moments with them as soon as possible.”
Given how much they’ve made sacrifices to give me opportunities, I want them to feel as part of it as much as possible.
They are not here because there is no available dog sitter. “The dogs come first!”
Jones has three fingers and a thumb on each hand, three toes on her right foot, and four toes on her left because of a genetic condition.
The Yorkshire-born tennis player was told by doctors to give up on professional tennis, but she fought the odds after relocating to Spain as a teenager.
Many Britons didn’t know how to use her clay, so her entry into the US Open main draw was typically unorthodox.
After just slipping short of the automatic entry deadline, Jones was the top seed in the women’s qualifying draw.
British number six Billy Harris fell at the final qualifying round but was still a victor in the main draw anyway.
The 30-year-old will face Canadian 25th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime, who has never previously qualified for the US Open main draw.
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated by Pakistani authorities after neighboring India releases water from overflowing dams and swollen rivers into low-lying border regions.
The move on Tuesday was made a day after New Delhi made its first public diplomatic contact with Islamabad since a four-day conflict in May.
At least 800 people have been reported dead in Pakistan since late June as a result of Pakistan’s most recent flood alert and evacuation drive.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) of Pakistan announced that there were ongoing evacuations from various districts in the eastern part of the province in response to a surge in the Sutlej River and the risk of flooding.
More than 14, 000 people were evacuated from Kasur, according to a statement released by rescuers, and about 89, 000 were moved to safer ground from Bahawalnagar, which is close to India’s border.
Rescue workers evacuating a villager in this photo, which was released by Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority [Photo via AP]
Additionally, it warned that several Indian states were anticipating heavy rainfall, which could swell rivers and streams heading for Pakistan, according to Pakistan’s Geo News TV channel.
Instead of the permanent mechanism established by the 1960 World Bank-brokered Indus Waters Treaty, which India rejected after it attributed Pakistan’s role in the April 26 tourist deaths in Indian-administered Kashmir, the flood alert was sent to Pakistan via diplomatic channels.
In May, both countries launched missile strikes due to India’s decision and the severing of diplomatic ties.
In recent months, Pakistan, a nation that is extremely susceptible to the effects of climate change, experienced numerous cloudburst floods and more than usual rainfall.
More than 300 people were killed when flash floods hit Buner district in the northwest of the nation this month, according to residents who complained.
Authorities in the southeast of Victoria have reported that police in Australia are looking for a gunman who fatally shot two officers and injured another on a rural property.
About 300 kilometers (186 miles) northeast of Melbourne, according to a statement from Victoria police, the shooting took place on Tuesday at 10:30 am as 10 police officers arrived at the property.
Police urged residents of Porepunkah and the surrounding area to stay indoors until further notice, and they also advised against visiting the area.
According to Victoria police, “the precise circumstances surrounding the incident are still being determined, and it continues to be a dynamic situation.”
The offender is believed to have since left the property, but his whereabouts are still unknown. The man’s whereabouts are being actively searched.
According to local media, the suspect was identified as Dezi Freeman as the police officers had gone there to execute a warrant for alleged historical sex crimes.
The families of the officers who died, received condolences from Australian Federal Police Association President Alex Caruana.
What has happened in Porepunkah serves as a reminder of the risks officers face every day in keeping the community safe, according to a statement from Caruana.
In Australia, strict gun laws were put in place in response to the 1996 mass shooting in Port Arthur, which resulted in the deaths of 35 people and 23 others.
