Van Dam was scheduled to perform in a " champion vs. champion " pay-per-view main event against ECW World Heavyweight Champion Mike Awesome.

Mike Awesome was a two-time World Heavyweight Champion.

In April 2000, Awesome made a surprise appearance on WCW Monday Nitro — aiding The New Blood by attacking Kevin Nash — while still reigning as ECW World Champion.

* Mike Awesome ( Alfonso )- Former WWF Champion, graduated in 1984

Although Tazz briefly appeared on WWF television with the ECW Championship in 2000 ( while under contract with the WWF ) after reigning ECW Champion Mike Awesome unexpectedly signed with WCW, none of ECW's titles were shown on WWF television during the Invasion angle due to ECW's assets being held up in bankruptcy court ; the WWE purchased ECW's assets in 2003 and later reintroduced the ECW Championship as part of ECW's revival as a WWE brand.

In 1993, Polgár defeated former World Champion Boris Spassky ( pictured here in 1984 ) in an exhibition match winning the largest prize money up to that point of her career of $ 110, 000.

There are now dozens of breweries in Britain making porter, with Fuller's ' London Porter ' winning gold and silver medals at the 1999, 2000 and 2002 International Beer & Cider Competitions, and CAMRA's Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain silver medal in 2007, with Wickwar Brewery's ' Station Porter ' winning gold in 2008.

In 1884, the Norwegian Axel Paulsen was named Amateur Champion Skater of the World after winning competitions in the United States.

Each Division typically crowns a Divisional Champion in each class, awarded by winning a single event.

Similarly, a National Champion in each class is awarded by winning the class at the National Championship ( usually referred to as " Nationals ") held in September.

In 2005, the Western Division Champion Padres finished with the lowest-ever winning percentage for a division champion ( or for that matter, a postseason qualifier ) in a non-strike season, 82 – 80.

* Lighthouse, a 3. 4 % bottled traditional pale ale ; recipe based on an award winning beer that used to be brewed called ' Champion Pale Ale '

16 year-old Nuthana Prathivadi, of Halifax, took the Dance Champion title ; Helen Wilson, of Harrogate, titled Music Champion and with 17-year old Lee Peart, of Cleethorpes, winning the Speech & Drama championship.

Kramnik won the match 8½-6½ without losing a game ( this was only the second time in history that a World Champion had lost a match without winning a single game ).

In the last game Fritz with the white pieces defeated the World Champion, winning the match.

Kaufman decides to become a professional wrestler — but to emphasize the “ villain ” angle, he would wrestle only women ( hired actresses ) and then berate them after winning, declaring himself " Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion ".

* Greg LeMond, former Cycling World Champion and three-time Tour de France winning bicycle racer.

* Mark Ingram, Jr., Heisman Trophy winning running back and BCS National Champion at Alabama, currently plays for the New Orleans Saints ; born and raisedin Hackensack

Gogarty became a World Champion after winning the fight on a ten round decision.

Upon reading it he went on a fourteen fight winning streak, including a shocking victory over Muhammad Ali in 1973 to win the North American Boxing Federation Heavyweight Champion title.

Holyfield is the only 4-time World Heavyweight Champion, winning the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles in 1990, the WBA and IBF titles in 1993 and the WBA title in 1996 and 2000.

By age 15, Holyfield became the Southeastern Regional Champion, winning this tournament and the Best Boxer Award.

However, it wasn't until 1993 that reigning Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell shocked the racing world by moving to the United States, winning the CART PPG IndyCar World Series Championship and only losing the 500 in his rookie year because of inexperience with green-flag restarts.

Pintor first boxed future World Bantamweight Champion Alberto Davila on February 25, 1976, losing a decision over ten rounds, then embarked on a winning streak of some twenty two fights in a row.

On February 8, 1908, Ketchel met the man who was generally recognized as the World Middleweight Champion and one of the leading welterweights and middleweights of the era, " Mike Twin Sullivan ," knocking him out in the first round and winning general recognition as World Middleweight Champion.

He ultimately fought in 107 bouts, winning Golden Gloves and other championships and picking up the nickname ' Champion Jack ', which he used the rest of his life.

Although Fitzsimmons became a world champion in each of the Middleweight, Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight divisions, historians do not consider him the first world Light Heavyweight Champion to become World Heavyweight Champion, because he won the Heavyweight title before winning the Light Heavyweight belt.

Rosie the Champion Tenterfield Terrier strutting her stuff.

Australian & New Zealand Champion Airedale Terrier

Hopkins was the final home of jockey Clive Dixon and his wife Betty June, who trained and owned the National Appaloosa Show Champion, Two-Eyed Sioux.

He was sired by the first Rin Tin Tin and his mother was Champion Asta of Linwood, also owned by Lee Duncan.

James owned several thoroughbred racehorses that won races such as the California Breeders ' Champion Stakes ( 1951 ) and the San Vicente Stakes ( 1954 ).

Originally owned by Leroy McGuirk ( who booked the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion for the NWA ), the promotion was sold to Bill Watts in 1979.

Champion is a supermarket chain that operates in France and is owned by the international retailer Carrefour.

Golden Miller was trained by Basil Briscoe in Longstowe, Cambridgeshire and owned by the eccentric Dorothy Paget, who was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1943, and the leading National Hunt owner in 1933-34, 1940-41 and 1951-52.

New Japan's annual G1 Climax tournament was chosen to decide a new NWA World Champion using the Big Gold Belt, now owned by WCW.

WCW was forced to create its own title belt ( a belt owned by Dusty Rhodes from the then-defunct Florida Championship Wrestling used as the PWF Heavyweight Championship with a gold plate tacked on its faceplate with the words " WCW World Heavyweight Champion "), which was awarded to Lex Luger after he defeated Barry Windham in a cage match for the vacant championship at 1991's Great American Bash.

Moree is served by The Moree Champion newspaper owned by Rural Press which is published on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Eagle Publications also owned several weekly and specialty publications, including the Connecticut Valley Spectator of Lebanon, New Hampshire, the Message for the Week of Chester, Vermont, the Weekly Flea, and the Argus Champion.

It was also the debut race for the American owned Haas Lola team with their new car, the Lola THL1 running the Hart 415T turbocharged engine, driven by World Champion Australian Alan Jones.

In real life, the Wonder Horse, Champion, was owned by Gene Autry who, over many years, owned a succession of celebrity horses bearing the same name.

Rock of Gibraltar ( IRE ) ( foaled 8 March 1999 in Ireland ) is a Champion racehorse and stallion owned by Coolmore, for whom he currently stands in Ireland ( during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season ) and Australia ( as a shuttle-stallion during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season ).

One of Broomfield's major angles was that his contract was owned by ICW Champion " Macho Man " Randy Savage and Savage's arch-nemesis ( coincidentally at this time nicknamed " One Man Gang ") Ron Garvin defeated Savage in a match to set Broomfield free.

He owned a boxing gym on 27th Street and Summit Avenue in Union City, New Jersey, where he was a fixture on the boxing scene for many years, training hundreds of boxers, including Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock.

Both games featured the defending Stanley Cup Champion Anaheim Ducks, and the Los Angeles Kings ( who are owned by Anschutz Entertainment Group, the same company that owns The O < sub > 2 </ sub >).

This key portion of the field is still owned by the Champion family, for whom the area and the battle were named, but now is also under conservation easement.