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Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito, billed as "The Eighth Wonder of the World", was a professional boxing match contested on November 13, 2010, for the vacant WBC super welterweight championship. [1]
Kelly Pavlik vs. Sergio Martínez was a professional boxing match contested on April 17, 2010, for the WBC, WBO and The Ring middleweight championship. [ 2 ] Background
This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The WBC is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , and certifies world champions in 18 different weight classes .
Boxing in the 2010s. 2020s Boxing in the 2010s includes notable events about boxing which occurred between 2010 and 2019. The decade saw high intensity action in the welterweight division.
In June 2010, Pascal re-signed a multi-million dollar contract with promoter Groupe Yvon Michel, the most lucrative ever given out to a boxer in Quebec boxing history. It stated that he was guaranteed $1,050,000 to defend his title against Chad Dawson , as well as another $1,500,000 guaranteed in the following fight.
The World Boxing Council (WBC) was founded in Mexico City, Mexico, on February 14, 1963, to establish an international regulating body. [7] The WBC established many of today's safety measures in boxing, such as the standing eight count , [ 8 ] a limit of 12 rounds instead of 15, and additional weight divisions.
Ryan Garcia further turned himself into a boxing pariah on Thursday with a series of hateful online comments which resulted in his expulsion from the World Boxing Council, one of the sports' major ...
On October 6, 2010, a Showtime press release confirmed that the WBC would grant its championship to the winner of the rescheduled Froch-Abraham match. [15] On September 13, 2010, it was announced that Carl Froch was suffering from a back injury and would have to delay his fight with Arthur Abraham, which had been scheduled for October 2. [16]