Between 1880 and 1881, Fitzsimmons reigned as champion of the Jem Mace tournament in New Zealand.

He reigned as world champion for nearly two years, winning four fights during that time.

At least six divisions had world champions who could be considered dominant: The Bantamweights had Rubén Olivares ; the Super Bantamweights, ( a division created in 1976 ) had Wilfredo Gómez winning the title in 1977 and keeping it until he left it vacant until 1983 ; the Lightweights had Roberto Durán, who won the title in 1972 and vacated it in 1979 to seek championships at other weights ; the Jr. Welterweights had Antonio Cervantes, who reigned twice ; the Middleweights had Carlos Monzón, sometimes referred to as King Carlos because of his seven-year reign as champion ; the Light-Heavyweights had Bob Foster.

In India the Great Gama was already a legendary champion, and in Europe Georg Hackenschmidt had reigned supreme with Stanislaus Zbyszko coming along.

Her reign was the third longest, at 14 years, behind only that of the first women's champion, Vera Menchik, who reigned for 17 years from 1927 until her death in 1944, and that of Gaprindashvili's 16 years.

Qawi, for his part, went up to the cruiserweight division, where he reigned as WBA world champion from 1985 to 1987.

Gans reigned as champion from 1902 to 1908.

Jimmy Wilde, who reigned from 1914 to 1923, was the first fighter recognized both in Britain and the United States as a flyweight champion.

Battling Siki ( September 16, 1897 – December 15, 1925 ), aka Louis Mbarick Fall, was a French light heavyweight boxer born in Senegal who fought from 1912 – 1925, and briefly reigned as the lineal light heavyweight champion after knocking out Georges Carpentier.

One fact that was somewhat important for the fight to gain public interest was that, while not considered a " White hope ", like Cooney had been before his fight with Holmes, Coetzee would be attempting to become the first White world Heavyweight champion since 1960, when Ingemar Johansson reigned after defeating Floyd Patterson.

Ahab became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa, king of Judah, and reigned for twenty-two years.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

Algardi's first major commission came about in 1634, when Cardinal Ubaldini ( Medici ) contracted for a funeral monument for his great-uncle, Pope Leo XI, the third of the Medici popes, who had reigned for less than a month in 1605.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

Thus, three eclipse calculations may be evidence for the suggestion that Romulus reigned from 746 BC to 709 BC, and Rome was founded during 745 BC.

Aeacus while he reigned in Aegina was renowned in all Greece for his justice and piety, and was frequently called upon to settle disputes not only among men, but even among the gods themselves.

Called al-Nasir li-Din Allah (" the Defender of God's Faith "), he ascended the throne in his early 20s, and reigned for half a century as the most powerful prince of Iberia.

Urukagina ( reigned c. 2380 BC – 2360 BC, short chronology ) had an early code that has not survived ; a later king, Ur-Nammu, left the earliest extant written law-system, the Code of Ur-Nammu ( c. 2100-2050 BC ), which prescribed a formal system of penalties for specific cases in 57 articles.

* Cyril Lucaris ( Patriarch Cyril I of Constantinople ), reigned for six terms between 1612 and 1638

Neriglissar however reigned for only four years, being succeeded by the youthful Labashi-Marduk in 560 BC.

Labashi-Marduk reigned only for a matter of months, being deposed by Nabonidus in late 560 BC.

The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that Domnall reigned for four years, matching the notices in the Annals of Ulster of his brother's death in February 858 and his own in April 862.

Bede states that when Æthelberht died in 616 he had reigned for fifty-six years, placing his accession in 560.

After the turbulent Year of the four emperors in 69, the Flavian Dynasty reigned for three decades.

Napoleon's infant son, Napoleon II, was recognized by the Council of Peers, as Emperor from the moment of his father's abdication, and therefore reigned ( as opposed to ruled ) as Emperor for fifteen days, 22 June to 7 July 1815.

Wu Zetian then reigned for about 15 years ( 690-705 AD ).

At first, only Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".

Empress Kōgyoku reigned for four years.

Empress Jitō reigned for eleven years.

The Empress had reigned as Kōken for ten years.

Empress Shōtoku had reigned for five years.

The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Annei is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Itoku is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

He reigned over Crete and the islands of the Aegean Sea three generations before the Trojan War.

It was stated that he had reigned for seventeen years, and was the best king they ever had in Mexico, and that he had personally triumphed in three wars against countries he had subjugated.

He had reigned only three months, but in this short time had shown more wisdom and grace than anyone had expected.

Only three other popes – Pius IX, Leo XIII, and John Paul II – have reigned for longer periods since.

As pope, Leo VII reigned for only three years.

Therefore, three eclipse records indicate that Romulus reigned from 746 BC to 709 BC.

Amyntas had three sons ; the first two, Alexander II and Perdiccas III reigned only briefly.

Catherine's three sons reigned in an age of almost constant civil and religious war in France.

After that three Antipopes reigned in Avignon until 1423, when the Papacy finally returned to Rome.

The opposition to ' guerilla-ism ' reigned for three whole years.

Despite knowing three of the five kings who reigned during his lifetime, there is no evidence that he was knighted.

According to, Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of Jeroboam, and reigned for three years.

There was also an Egyptian pharaoh of the Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt named Djehuty ( Thoth ) after him, and who reigned for three years.

Of this period, he served almost eleven years ( 1 January 1966 – 4 December 1976 ) as president ( president for life in 1972 – 1976 ), and for almost three years he reigned as emperor ( 4 December 1976 — 20 September 1979 ).

Ivan III reigned for forty three years, dying on 27 October 1505.

Mosley defeated De La Hoya by a close 12 round unanimous decision and joined the exclusive group of world boxing champions that have reigned in three or more divisions.

Drastically revising the chronology of the Primary Chronicle, Constantine Zuckerman argues that Igor actually reigned for three years, between summer 941 and his death in early 945.

Alexander Jannaeus ' son, Hyrcanus II, had scarcely reigned three months when his younger brother, Aristobulus II, rose in rebellion, whereupon Hyrcanus advanced against him at the head of an army of mercenaries and his Pharisee followers: " NOW Hyrcanus was heir to the kingdom, and to him did his mother commit it before she died ; but Aristobulus was superior to him in power and magnanimity ; and when there was a battle between them, to decide the dispute about the kingdom, near Jericho, the greatest part deserted Hyrcanus, and went over to Aristobulus.

The chronology of the three Babylonian kings is given in the Talmud ( Megillah 11a-b ) as follows: Nebuchadnezzar reigned forty-five years, Evil-merodach twenty-three, and Belshazzar was monarch of Babylonia for two years, being killed at the beginning of the third year on the fatal night of the fall of Babylon ( Meg.

* King Mu of Zhou ( reigned 977 BCE – 922 BCE ), who according to the apocryphal Travels of King Mu once played a game of Liubo with a hermit that lasted three days.

* Patriarch Symeon I of Constantinople, or Symeon of Trebizond, reigned three times: 1466, 1471 – 1475 and 1482 – 1486

In 668, Silla unified the three kingdoms, and reigned as Unified Silla until 935.