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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 ...
WBA/WBC 18 April 1969 3 December 1970 José Nápoles: WBA/WBC 3 December 1970 4 June 1971 Billy Backus: WBA/WBC 4 June 1971 6 December 1975 José Nápoles: WBA/WBC 16 September 1981 9 November 1982 (retires) Sugar Ray Leonard: WBA/WBC Title Split into WBA, WBC, and IBF Belts: 6 December 1985 27 September 1986 Donald Curry: WBA/WBC/IBF 27 ...
The WBC Eternal Championship is an honorary title awarded to retired boxers that have never lost the WBC world title in the ring while having a solid number of successful title defenses. Jiselle Salandy was awarded the Eternal title as she defended the WBC female super welterweight title five times before her death on 4 January 2009.
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 regulate championship bouts and award world titles.
The co-main event, a 12-round WBC/WBA super welterweight world title eliminator bout between rising 22-year-old star Jesus Ramos and Erickson Lubin, turned into a sleeper with very little action ...
Reigning WBC welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya, coming off five straight successful title defenses after capturing the title from Pernell Whitaker in April 1997, had reached an agreement in August 1998 to face former welterweight champion Ike Quartey. [2]
Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round.
This is a list of current WBC International champions. [1] The International title is one of the World Boxing Council 's highest regional championships, below world level and WBC Silver . Weight class