The Ukrainian won a controversial decision over the Briton in Riyadh and unified the four world titles for the first time in 24 years. The Briton dominated the early stages of the fight, but Oleksandr Usyk set the pace and nearly sent him to the canvas in the ninth round. Tyson Fury is unsure whether he will accept a rematch, which could take place in October.

The International Taekwon-Do Federation was originally founded in 1966 in Seoul. Since then and over time, the ITF moved its headquarter together with the legal registration to a few countries. The most recent move was decided in the ITF General Assembly on 3 October, 2022, moving the ITF to Lausanne, Switzerland, coming into force on 1 January 1. Together with the move, new statutes were approved replacing all previous texts.  

The World Taekwondo Coach-Referee Joint Training Camp for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has successfully concluded for 32 coaches and 26 international referees in Muju Taekwondowon, Korea.

Marcell Jacobs won his first 100 metres race in Europe this year in the build-up to his Olympic title defence in Paris. Italian Jacobs, who stunned the athletics world with two golds in the Tokyo 2020 Games, clocked a time of 10.07 seconds to win his race at the 'Sprint Festival' in Rome, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday. 

The New Zealand rugby community mourned the loss of legendary All Blacks scrum-half Sid Going this weekend, who passed away aged 80.

Golf star Scottie Scheffler prepared for his second round at the US PGA Championship by "stretching in a jail cell" following his arrest on Friday morning.

Rodgers Kwemoi, a Kenyan long-distance runner and former world junior 10,000m champion, has been handed a six-year ban for multiple violations of the athlete biological passport (ABP).

The Global Association of Mixed Martial Arts (GAMMA) has established a new Health and Wellbeing Commission as part of its ongoing work to modernise and innovate the federation. 

Friday at the first-ever Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai was packed with preliminaries ahead of a weekend of finals, with skateboarding packing the stands with young spectators. 

Golfer Scottie Scheffler, currently ranked as the world's number one, was reportedly detained and handcuffed by police after allegedly trying to bypass a traffic jam caused by a fatal accident near a golf course.

The former World Anti-Doping Agency President discussed the fall-out from the Chinese swimmers doping scandal and accused the agency from the other side of the border of seeking to undermine the global body with "lies and distortions".

Over 50 members of the American fencing community - including former world sabre champion Nikolay Kovalev - have signed an open letter to the board of US Fencing (also known as USA Fencing) saying athletes have "no confidence" in its investigation of bout manipulation allegations.

The world body has assigned a stabilisation committee that will temporarily manage the national entity after its leaders and anti-doping officials were arrested on Monday because of a controversy regarding the covering of a Tunisian flag.