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Three hundred starts. This weekend in Mexico City, Sergio Perez lines up on the grid for the three hundredth time in Formula One, climbing past Sebastian Vettel into seventh on the sport's all-time entry list. At his home race, in front of his home crowd, at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez — it doesn't get more fitting than that.
Shifting to the boxing ring, Canelo Alvarez makes his return this weekend in Riyadh, stepping in against Christian Mbilli for the WBC super-middleweight title. It's been thirteen months since Terence Crawford handed Canelo a points defeat in Las Vegas, and the thirty-six-year-old is looking to reassert himself against a dangerous, unbeaten challenger. High stakes, high drama.
And in football, the Carabao Cup quarter-final draw has thrown up a fascinating tie — Liverpool against Bournemouth. Cherries manager Andoni Iraola was refreshingly honest about it, essentially admitting he'd rather have avoided his former club entirely. After both sides came through tough fourth-round ties, neither will be taking the other lightly when this one comes around.
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