That year the young boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. knocked out Sonny Liston to become the heavyweight champion of the world.

He lost his world light heavyweight title and his European heavyweight and light heavyweight titles the following year, on September 24, 1922, in a controversial bout with Senegalese fighter Battling Siki.

He denied matches to black heavyweights Joe Jeanette ( one of his successors as colored heavyweight champ ), Sam Langford ( who beat Jeanette for the coloured title ), and the young Harry Wills ( who was coloured heavyweight champ during the last year of Johnson's reign as world's heavyweight champ ).

In late 1979, Mentzer won the heavyweight class of the Mr. Olympia, again with a perfect 300 score, but he lost in the overall to Frank Zane who was awarded the title for a third time that year.

After defending both titles against Hein Domgoergen the same year and, in 1928, the European Title with a first round knockout of Michele Bonaglia, he secured the German heavyweight championship with a point victory against Franz Diener, and decided to chase bigger fights and bigger purses in the United States.

The next year, competing in the Golden Gloves ' Open Division, he won the light heavyweight classification, this time also winning the Chicago Tournament of Champions.

The WBC responded on March 18, 1978, by retroactively giving title fight status to Norton's victory over Young the year before and awarded Norton their championship, which split the heavyweight championship for the first time since Jimmy Ellis and Joe Frazier were both recognized as champions in the early 1970s.

The following year, he won a unanimous decision over John Ruiz for the vacant WBA Heavyweight Championship, becoming the first boxer to win a version of the heavyweight title four times.

By 1946, Moore had moved to the light heavyweight division and he went 5-2-1 that year, beating contender Curtis Sheppard, but losing to future World Heavyweight Champion and Hall of Famer Ezzard Charles by a decision in ten, and drawing with old nemesis Chase.

The next year, Moore won all nine of his bouts, including a 10 round non title win against then fringe heavyweight contender Nino Valdez of Cuba and a 15 round decision over Maxim in a rematch to retain the belt.

In 2003 he became the WBO heavyweight champion by defeating Wladimir Klitschko via a second-round knock out that is considered one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight boxing history and was named Ring Magazine upset of the year 2003.

The fight was widely considered to be one of the best heavyweight matches of that year.

He rolled through the competition en route to securing an opportunity to fight for the vacant WBO heavyweight championship the following year against Bert Cooper.

* November 5 – forty-five year old George Foreman becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of a Las Vegas fight.

He broke the world's record for the oldest man to win the world's Heavyweight title when he earned it at the age of, a record that would be broken on November 5, 1994, by George Foreman, who defeated the 26 year old Heavyweight champion of the world Michael Moorer at the age of 45, to win the WBA and IBF heavyweight titles.

( Baer took the heavyweight crown from Carnera the year after the movie's release.

Among his victims that year were the reigning Light Heavyweight Champion Battling Levinsky ( in a non-title fight ), former Light Heavyweight Champion Jack Dillon, middleweight George Chip and heavyweight Willie Meehan, who had beaten future Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey earlier in the year.

Hamsho would continue to fight, with the biggest name on his list being Donny Lalonde, who decisioned Hamsho in the spring of 1987 and would then go on to become light heavyweight champion later that year.

Additional safety regulations were implemented each year, match length was trimmed to 5 minutes, a ' featherweight ' weight class was added, and weight allowances crept upward ; by 1997 the heavyweight maximum was 170 pounds.

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After helping United to win the Football League in 1965, he won a World Cup medal with England in 1966 and another Football League title with United the following year.

In that year, the Birds went on to post a 101 – 61 record for their third-straight AL East title.

Next year, the album was released in Turkey under the title Nick the Chopper.

Many of those players came from the Indians ' new AAA farm team, the Charlotte Knights, who won the International League title that year.

For the 1999 season, Cleveland added relief pitcher Ricardo Rincón and second baseman Roberto Alomar, brother of catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr, and won the Central Division title for the fifth consecutive year.

Andres Galarraga, a year after winning the batting title, hit 31 homers, and teammate Dante Bichette hit 27 ; projected over a 162-game season, the two would have hit 43 and 37 homers, respectively.

Helton, in his third full year in the majors, was becoming a bona fide superstar, winning the batting title with a. 372 average and also leading the league with 147 RBI while hitting 42 homers.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the other main source that bears on this period, in particular in an entry for the year 827 that records a list of the kings who bore the title " bretwalda ", or " Britain-ruler ".

Many courses start their caddies off at the B level, and after a year move them to A, and on their fourth year ( if they have earned it ), they will receive the title of Honor caddy.

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

In that same year, Smith became the first player to win the Super Bowl, the NFL rushing title ( i. e. lead the league in rushing ), the NFL Most Valuable Player Award, and the Super Bowl MVP all in one season.

In Mr. Rice's Secret ( 2000 ), he played the title role as the neighbour of a terminally ill twelve-year-old, and the following year appeared as himself in Zoolander.

Undergraduate education was given in four or five year programs until 2002, styled along the lines of the German system of education ; graduates of these programs were granted an engineering title and allowed to prefix their name with the title ir.

Simpler and cruder examples from the same year occurs in William S. Hart ' sThe Narrow Trail, in which a single shot of the mouth of San Francisco Bay taken against the light ( the Golden Gate ) is preceded by a narrative title explaining its symbolic function in the story.

It was designated the European Grand Prix two times, 1955 and 1963, when this title was an honorary designation given each year to one Grand Prix race in Europe.

In this year, the Empire also received its new title, the Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation (" Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation ").

( the title holders after their victory the previous year over Liverpool ).

In 1955, the year after Attucks had lost in the semistate final ( state quarterfinals ) to Milan's championship team, Attucks gained fame by winning the Indiana state championship, becoming the first all-black school in the nation to win a state title open to all schools regardless of race.

* In 2011, Butler returned to the NCAA title game for a second straight year.

That same year, he recorded the title theme song for Dennis Hopper's Colors, a film about inner-city gang life in Los Angeles.

The two franchises were denied a playoff confrontation by Miami's first-round defeat to the Oakland Raiders, whereas Baltimore would win its first Super Bowl title that year.

In that year, he resigned from the position of Archdruid but retained the lifelong title of ADF Archdruid Emeritus.