* January 18-Sandy Saddler retains his world Featherweight title with a thirteenth round knockout of future world Jr. Lightweight champion Flash Elorde, in San Francisco.

He accepted a non-title bout with reigning featherweight champion Sandy Saddler November 1, 1950 and lost a decision.

Pep once again lost his World Featherweight Championship to Saddler, being unable to come out for the eighth round due to a separated shoulder suffered at the end of the seventh round.

" Saddler Street " is born out of Owengate and South Bailey, continuing down hill to the Market Place.

* Grandmaster Flash Joseph Saddler ( born 1958 ), hip-hop musician and disc jockey

Born in The Bronx, New York, The Kidd Creole ( aka Nathaniel Glover Jr .) and his brother Mele Mel ( aka Melvin Glover ) joined up with the late Keith Cowboy ( aka Robert Keith Wiggins ) in 1975 to form the Three Emcees, with Grandmaster Flash ( aka Joseph Saddler ) as the group's DJ.

Then, on October 29, he lost the world featherweight title to Saddler in a fourth round knockout.

* The R-16 missile, with NATO reporting name SS-7 Saddler.

In the late 1830s, a runaway slave, who had taken the surname Saddler to avoid detection by his former master, came to New Jersey from a Maryland plantation with his wife and two daughters.

Saddler worked for Cy Evans, a local Quaker farmer, from whom he bought fifty acres to farm.

The area where Saddler settled became a predominantly black community known as Saddlertown, a stop on the Underground Railroad.

1948 was a year that would become important in Pep's life: He won 15 bouts before going into what would be the first fight of his four-fight series with Sandy Saddler.

After two wins, he and Saddler met in 1949.

On their rivalry's second installment, Pep recovered the World's Featherweight Championship by beating Saddler by a 15 round decision, and then he engaged in a series of exhibition and ten round bouts before defending the crown against Eddie Campo, winning by a knockout in the seventh.

In 1950, he won nine fights before meeting Saddler for a third time.

Then came the third fight with Saddler.

He won eight bouts in a row to start the year, but his ninth bout, the last chapter of the rivalry with Saddler, was his most important bout that year.

Pep too frequently backed around the ring and Saddler just as often missed as he kept boring in trying to corner his man.

After retiring, he and Saddler involved in a series of exhibition bouts, and in 1980, Pep sued Sports Illustrated for running a story suggesting that he threw his fight with Perez.

The production was directed by Keeler's 42nd Street director, Busby Berkeley, and choreographed by Donald Saddler.

" The show's final director, Joe Layton, was then hired, also replacing the choreographer Donald Saddler.

The Government Harness and Saddler Factory was started in 1860 to supply the army with leather products, followed by Cooper Allen & Co. in 1880.

Tony and Drama Desk Awards went to costume designer Raoul Pène Du Bois, choreographer Donald Saddler, and Gallagher as best leading actress ; Kelly won a Tony as best featured actress, and Shevelove's work earned him a Drama Desk Award for outstanding book.

From 1959 the Soviets introduced a number of intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) into service, including the SS-4 ' Sandal ', the SS-6 ' Sapwood ' ( R-7 ), the SS-7 ' Saddler ' ( R-16 ), the SS-8 ' Sasin ' ( R-9A ), the SS-8 ' Sasin ' ( R-26 ), the SS-9 ' Scarp ' ( R-36 ), and the SS-16 ' Sinner ' ( RT-21 ), which was possibly never made fully operational.

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Allen's Tenterfield Saddler, the title song of which has become an Australian standard, was acquired and reissued by A & M Records in 1978.

* September 8-Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler fight their third of four fights against each other: Saddler regains the world Featherweight title with an eighth round knockout, Yankee Stadium, New York.

* September 26-Chapter four of the Saddler-Pep rivalry, as Saddler regained the world Featherweight title with a tenth round technical knockout.

Among his 19 defenses were one against Enrique Solis in Puerto Rico, a 15 round decision win, one in Japan against former world champion Royal Kobayashi, knocked out in 14, one in South Korea against Sa Wang Kim, knocked out in 8, one in Houston against the former three time world champion and fellow Hall of Famer Rubén Olivares, who lasted 12, one in Papua New Guinea versus Johnny Aba, who lost in 11, two against future world junior lightweight champion Rocky Lockridge, who went the distance with Pedroza in New Jersey and in Italy but lost by decision both times, a return to Venezuela to knock Carlos Pinango out in seven, a return to New Jersey to defeat Juan Laporte by decision, a return to Italy to beat Jose Caba, also by decision, and a fight in North Carolina in which he retained the title with a draw against Bernard Taylor.

Back to the drawing board, he beat Rocky Castellani, the then lightweight world champion Beau Jack, and Laurent Dauthuille ( the latter of whom fought Gavilan in Montreal, Canada ).

Their small, lightweight mid-engined vehicles gave away much in terms of power, but superior handling meant their competing cars often beat the all-conquering front engined Ferraris and Maseratis.

According to Norris, in his book Against All Odds: My Story he won the middleweight title in 1967 at the Long Beach Internationals, then beat Bunda who had won the lightweight title.

Nakayama beat Charlie Kohler ( USA ) in KOTC 43 on November 14, 2004, and received the KOTC world lightweight title.

Hatton's promoter, Dennis Hobson, stated that the impetus for moving back down was to set up a fight with José Luis Castillo, a fighter who nearly beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. at lightweight in 2002.

This would give such an alloy a strength to weight ratio that would easily beat the best lightweight materials such as aluminium or titanium, and be much less expensive than composite materials.

ESPN's Peter Gammons and Dan Patrick both picked The Brewers to beat out the defending champion Cardinals and re-vamped Chicago Cubs to win the NL Central.

In the next seven weeks the Saints beat talented teams such as the eventual Super Bowl XLVI champion New York Giants, Detroit Lions, and Atlanta Falcons, bringing their season record to 12-3.

The Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves in the 1993 National League Championship Series, four games to two, to earn the fifth pennant in franchise history, only to be defeated by the defending league champion Toronto Blue Jays in the 1993 World Series.

Because of difficulties in human lookahead — peculiar to Reversi because of the apparent strategic meaninglessness of internal disks ( making blindfold games — if not virtually impossible without enormous dedication — more difficult than is the case in, say, chess ) and the attractiveness of the game to programmers — the best Othello computer programs have easily defeated the best humans since 1980, when the program The Moor beat the reigning world champion.

* Savate was also featured in the first Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament, where Dutch savate champion Gerard Gordeau beat a sumo wrestler and an American kickboxer.

On June 1, 1913, he beat " Bombardier " Billy Wells in Ghent, Belgium to become heavyweight champion of Europe.

Al-Suli came to prominence as a shatranj player sometime in between 902 and 908 when he beat al-Mawardi, the court shatranj champion of al-Muktafi, the Caliph of Baghdad.

Sampras beat Agassi in straight sets to become the US Open's youngest-ever male singles champion at the age of 19 years and 28 days.

" The team would overcome Forsberg's injury ; in the Western Conference Finals, Colorado beat the St. Louis Blues 4 – 1 and progressed to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they faced the defending champion New Jersey Devils.

In 1909, he beat Frank Moran, Tony Ross, Al Kaufman, and the middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel.

Without Nieuwendyk, the Stars lacked the firepower to beat the defending champion Red Wings in the Western Conference Finals, and lost in six games.

He was a Spartan king and a champion runner who would not allow anyone to marry his daughter unless he beat him in a race.

Confident and hard to beat, Lopez was beaten by the 21 year old Sánchez, who knocked out the defending champion in 13 rounds in Phoenix, Arizona, United States on February 2, 1980.

He beat Garcia punch after punch, but the challenger gave honor to his nickname, an unknown fighter who lasts the distance with the world champion.

Two more wins followed and a title shot came after that, and she beat Klee Fenie in Las Vegas to become the WIBF's world Flyweight champion.

The Ring has its own version of the lineal championship in a given weight class where The Ring champion holds a linear reign to the throne, the man who beat the man.

Fought on Home Box Office, Camacho beat the Mexican defending world champion, José Luis Ramírez in Las Vegas to win the WBC world Lightweight championship.

In this record race he beat the reigning Olympic champion and former world record holder Peter Snell of New Zealand.

In 1991 he moved to the Jr Middleweight division and beat WBA World Jr Middleweight champion Gilbert Dele with an 12th round TKO win in Providence.

Paz beat Roberto Duran by decision twice and lost a title try at world super middleweight champion Roy Jones Jr. in the 1990s, the decade when he also married his girlfriend, a former Penthouse model ; they were subsequently divorced.

For his 24th bout, he traveled to Panama City, where he met future world Featherweight champion Ernesto Marcel, who beat him on points in 10 rounds.

In 2002 John Force broke his own NHRA drag racing record by winning his 12th national championship in his Ford Mustang Funny Car, Force beat that record again in 2006, becoming the first ever 14-time champion, again, driving a Mustang.

Among his fights in ' 79, a loss to future world Junior bantamweight champion Gustavo Ballas, who beat him in 10 on points, a rubber match with Ibris, resulting in another Laciar 10 round decision win, two decision losses to Raúl Pérez, and a 10 round decision win against top contender Federico Condori.

He was already ranked number one by the WBA, and in March he flew to South Africa, where he beat Peter Mathebula on the 28th day of that month, by a knockout in seven rounds to become the world's flyweight champion.

Carazo came back to beat former Flyweight world champion Santos Laciar by a decision in 12 at Caguas in 1988, and was given a chance to challenge the late Gilberto Roman for the WBC world's Jr. Bantamweight title in 1989, in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California.