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[MMA Gone Wild🥋 @mmagonewild]

Arman Tsarukyan managed to make more money on Topuria’s fight than Topuria did fighting

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

The MVP MMA event on Netflix had the same viewership as the UFC White House event 👀

Netflix total subscribers - 325 million
Paramount+ total subscribers - 79.6 million

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 The opening of Obama's Presidential Center gave us this gem: Obama and Jill Biden both walked off and forgot Joe!

Anyone else hit with a bit of sweet nostalgia seeing Joe lost on stage again? 😂

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Instead of celebrating the Cavaliers’ 2016 championship reunion in Europe, Kyrie Irving chose to spend his time mentoring young players at the NBPA Top 100 Camp before returning to New Jersey to connect with and inspire up-and-coming student-athletes in his local community 🙏

(h/t @ScoopB )

[CCM @CCombatMedia]

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Michael Morales vs Carlos Prates is targeted for #UFC330 Philadelphia.

Number one contender fight.

[Zartonk Media @ZartonkMedia]

Europe's Top Human Rights Court Rules Against Azerbaijan for Torture and Killing of Armenian Officer in First April 2016 War Ruling
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Azerbaijan responsible for the torture and unlawful killing of 30-year-old Armenian officer Major Hayk Toroyan during the April 2016 Four-Day War in and around Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), where Azerbaijani soldiers killed him after he had been wounded and could no longer defend himself, in the first ruling the Court has issued among the cases of that war, reports Zartonk Media.

The significance of the ruling extends far beyond this single case. By holding that Azerbaijan exercised jurisdiction over Toroyan through its soldiers' authority and control over him, the Court rejected the kind of evasion Baku has long relied on to escape accountability, and established a legal foundation that Armenian advocates can now invoke in the 21 related April 2016 cases still pending before it. The precedent reaches further still, offering a basis for future claims arising from Azerbaijan's wider pattern of violence against Armenians, from the 2020 war to the September 2023 ethnic cleansing of Artsakh.

In its judgment in V.T. and Others v. Azerbaijan, delivered on June 18, the Court ruled against Azerbaijan, finding violations of Article 2 (right to life) and Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The case concerns Major Hayk Toroyan, born in Yerevan in 1985, who served in the armed forces of the then Artsakh Republic as head of the rocket and artillery armament service of his unit in Mataghis. The Court anonymized the proceedings, referring to him by his initials and withholding the names of the applicants, his parents and sister. The Court found that Azerbaijani forces captured him during the four-day clashes, tortured him, severed his hands, and beheaded him while he was still alive.

According to the case file, Toroyan and his driver left their unit on the morning of April 2, 2016, to deliver ammunition to a post north of the village of Talish when their truck was ambushed and came under heavy fire. At 11.25 that morning, Toroyan sent a text message to a fellow soldier that read, "They shot me." His driver was found decapitated near the vehicle. A forensic examination concluded that Toroyan remained conscious for up to two hours, that his hands were severed seconds before his death, and that he was beheaded while still alive. His head and hands have never been returned, and he was buried without them.

The Court found that Azerbaijan had jurisdiction over the killing through its soldiers' "State agent authority and control" over the victim, rejecting Azerbaijan's argument that it bore no responsibility because the events occurred on territory outside its control. The Court held that Toroyan was killed after he had been wounded and could no longer defend himself or move on his own, conduct it found incompatible with international humanitarian law, and that the severe violence inflicted on him amounted to torture.

The Court also found a separate violation of Article 3 in relation to the suffering of his family, noting that they were unable to recover his remains or carry out a proper burial, which caused them profound and continuous distress.

Although Azerbaijan denied responsibility, the Court drew on evidence originating from Azerbaijani sources. A photograph of Toroyan's severed head was posted to a Facebook page by a soldier presumed to be Azerbaijani, alongside the caption "I have got one"; an Armenian forensic bureau later matched the face in the image to Toroyan. The Court found that this and other material publicized by Azerbaijani officials corroborated the family's account.

A ceasefire ended the fighting at noon on April 5, 2016, four days after it began. In its aftermath, the bodies of fallen servicemen were returned, some mutilated and missing heads, hands, or ears.

Anna Melikyan, a lawyer who worked on the case, said the ruling came at last, nearly ten years after the April War, in the matter of one of the Armenian servicemen killed and beheaded during the fighting. She noted that the Armenian government had not filed an interstate complaint over these cases, which were instead pursued by a group of human rights advocates, among them her colleagues Ara Ghazaryan, Haykuhi Harutyunyan, Hasmik Harutyunyan, and Araks Melkonyan. Armenia did intervene in the proceedings as a third party in support of the family.

The Court ordered Azerbaijan to pay €60,000 jointly to Toroyan's parents and €30,000 to his sister in non-pecuniary damages, along with €14,210 in costs and expenses to be paid to the Yerevan-based NGO Rule of Law, which represented the family.

Toroyan had been due to be presented for promotion to lieutenant colonel that month. He was posthumously awarded Armenia's Combat Cross, First Degree.

[Fantasy Fight Night @FantasyFightsAI]

Justin Gaethje says he don't have a wife/girlfriend because he doesn't leave his house

He said his worst performances in the UFC have come while he was in a relationship.

"It's mental for sure. These girls are crazy bro"

[L 🫥 🔮 @BarrettsGoat]

Josh Hart was seen eating alone at a restaurant in New York after the Knicks championship parade 👀

[NBACentel @TheNBACentel]

Carmelo Anthony at the Knicks parade:

“I helped build this. A ring would be appreciated.”

[Apex Jones HACKED @ApexJonesHACKED]

"Dad, what do you mean when you say New York niggas???"

Well, son:

[MMA On Point @mmaonpoint]

When Justin Gaethje said his coach is better than Ilia Topuria's coach, he was not lying 🏆

Trevor Wittman has:

4 UFC undisputed titles
2 UFC interim titles
1 BMF title

in his trophy cabinet 🏅

[Pitless @pitlessball]

Rookie Magic Johnson Tips Off At Center (1980 Finals, Game 6):

42 PTS, 15 REB, 7 AST, 3 STL, 1 BLK, 14/23 FGA (61%), 14/14 FTA, 72% TS

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

(2022) Never forget Klay Thompson at the Warriors championship parade

What a time. 🤣🤣🤣

[geezer @0xGeezer]

Shaquille O'Neal reveals he made a mistake, leading to a divorce and was lonely in his 76,000 square foot house.

"Look, I was just being greedy. I had the perfect situation."

"My wife was finer than a mug, kept giving me babies, still finer than a mug. I had it all, just sometimes you.. and I don't make excuses, I know I messed up and then you know when I didn't have that... I don't like to use the d word because I don't really know what it is but I was lost."

"Seventy Six thousand square foot house by yourself. Lost."

"No kids, you go to the gym, nobody's playing in the gym. You go to their room, nobody's there."

"You start to feel it you know but I said to myself ok, you're not married but you still have to protect and provide for this family. Get your ass up, man up, let's go. What you gonna do next cause you know you may not be a husband, but I'm always be a father and the father's job is to protect, provide and love."

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

🚨 BREAKING: The UFC White House event reached a total of 17 MILLION viewers on Paramount+

[Zartonk Media @ZartonkMedia]

Armenia’s Shant Sargsyan Defeats World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in Hong Kong 🇦🇲
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Armenian Grandmaster Shant Sargsyan, world No. 74, has defeated world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in the seventh round of the 2026 FIDE World Rapid Team Chess Championship in Hong Kong, reports Zartonk Media.

After the game, Sargsyan said, “It was my dream,” and described the victory as one of the happiest days of his life.

The 24-year-old Sargsyan, who plays for Sky Chess, secured a remarkable victory over the 35-year-old Carlsen, the world No. 1 and the 16th World Chess Champion, who held the classical title from 2013 to 2023 and is competing for top-seeded WR Chess.

The tournament, organized by FIDE, opened on June 17 and runs through June 19 at Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong, the first time the championship has been held in East Asia. It has brought together more than 40 teams and over 300 players from around the world, featuring elite grandmasters, top women players, rising stars, and amateur participants competing in a mixed team rapid format. The competition is played as a 12-round Swiss event with four rounds per day and six-player team matches.

The win stands as one of the most high-profile results of the tournament's opening stretch and a notable reversal: just last year, Carlsen had defeated Sargsyan at the World Rapid Championship.

[Jason Maples @jjmaples55]

Mike stopped this dude from getting 2-4 rings lol Pat was that guy. Probably biggest "victim" (for lack of a better word) of the Jordan era.

[dank @cptdankkk]

J.R. Smith says retirement made him realize how much money he wasted: “Why did I have 7 cars?”

“Half the shit I bought in the last 10 years, I barely use. I pretty much wear the same golf outfits every day”

“Even the watches. Buying all these fancy ass watches and shit, I don't wear them. I don't go anywhere to wear them”

“To me, I think, why did I spend all this money on stuff that I don't really use? But not only that, I don't really care about”

“I had seven cars at one point and we were in Cleveland. I'm like, ‘Why did I have seven cars?’”

[Happy Punch @HappyPunch]

Conor McGregor cooked Max Holloway about his loss to Charles Oliveira

“They starved themselves at 155 lbs. I didn’t think there was anything BMF about it. Who’s the baddest man in a sauna?”

😭😭😭

[💫Hendawg @Alexjakes8]

“Aye! Put That B**** Ass nigga through the gah Damn Hole!”

This was Kobe talking about Tim Duncan Shaq was getting neutralized & outplayed by Tim. No other player had the balls to talk to Shaq like this.Majority of the time,Kobe outperformed both Shaq & Tim. No Kobe=No 3peat