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A championship belt is a large, extravagantly designed belt used primarily in combat sports such as boxing, mixed martial arts, and professional wrestling to signify the champions of the promotion or company, much like a cup or trophy in other sports. There are several companies in the business of constructing championship belts.
[40] [41] [42] Around 2004, the World Boxing Association recognized three different types: the unified champion (two-titles holder in the weight division or category, obliged to defend the title against WBA's No. 1 contender in 18 months periodically), the undisputed champion (three-title holder, mandatory defense against WBA's challenger in 21 ...
Holyfield vacated the title to move up to heavyweight full time. 5 Taoufik Belbouli (def. Michael Greer) 25 Mar – 11 Aug 1989 0 Belbouli got injured and was expected to get stripped on 11 August. [20] 6 Robert Daniels (def. Dwight Muhammad Qawi) 27 Nov 1989 – 8 Mar 1991 2 7 Bobby Czyz: 8 Mar 1991 – Oct 1993 2
In 1909, the first of twenty-two belts were presented by the fifth Earl of Lonsdale to the winner of a British title fight held at the N.S.C. In 1929, the BBBofC continued to award Lonsdale Belts to any British boxer who won three title fights in the same weight division. The "title fight" has always been the focal point in professional boxing.
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 ...
The first of the current organizations to award a world title was the World Boxing Association (WBA), then known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), when it sanctioned its first title fight in 1921 between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier for the world heavyweight championship.
De La Hoya vacates the title to stay at welterweight. The title is vacated on WBC's May ratings posted on 17 June. [68] 25 Kostya Tszyu (def. Miguel Ángel González) 21 Aug 1999 – 9 Oct 2003 7 Tszyu is stripped of the title and is designated by the WBC as Champion Emeritus. [69] 26 Arturo Gatti (def. Gianluca Branco) 24 Jan 2004 – 25 Jun ...
Boxing magazine The Ring has awarded world championships in professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922. The first Ring world title belt was awarded to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, and the second was awarded to flyweight champion Pancho Villa. The magazine stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s ...