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However the WBO unanimously voted on 17 September 2001 that Krajnc had remained WBO champion throughout the dispute. 12 Harry Simon: 6 Apr 2002 – 8 Jul 2003 0 Simon was involved in a car accident [27] and was sidelined for 8 months resulting in being stripped of the title. [28] 13 Héctor Velazco (interim champion promoted) 8 Jul – 13 Sep ...
World champions were initially recognized by wide public acclamation, with heavyweight champions winning and losing championship recognition solely in the ring. Retirements periodically resulted in no one, true champion being recognized, while in other cases new champions were proclaimed only to see a previously recognized champion come out of ...
There are now four major sanctioning bodies in professional boxing. The official rules and regulations of the WBA, [1] World Boxing Council (WBC), [2] International Boxing Federation (IBF), [3] and World Boxing Organization (WBO) [4] all recognize each other in their rankings and title unification rules. Each of these organizations sanction and ...
A month prior, Morrison had reached an agreement to face the undefeated Lennox Lewis for Lewis' WBC heavyweight title. [3] However, before moving on to face Lewis, Morrison chose to first defend his WBO title against the virtually unknown Michael Bentt, who was a highly decorated amateur, but had only 11 fights in five years as a professional.
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
After stopping Tony Tucker in two round, in June 1997 to regain the WBO heavyweight belt, Herbie Hide had made two quick defences against Damon Reed and Wilhelm Fischer.He had criticized the bout between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield being described as for undisputed championship saying to the BBC, "How can Lewis against Holyfield be for the undisputed title when my belt is not involved ...
Having been seemingly blacklisted by the WBA, WBC and IBF, former Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Riddick Bowe was left with little choice other than to compete for the then lightly regarded WBO version of the heavyweight title. In the championship match, Bowe battered the much smaller champion, Britain's Herbie Hide, gaining seven knockdowns ...
The following is a list of quintuple champions who have held titles from one or more of the "Big Four" organizations (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) and The Ring. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame