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The WBA investigated the fight, and during the investigation, it was revealed that Curtis had been told by the Nevada Athletic Commission to be mindful of the condition of the fighters after the November 18 death of Duk Koo Kim as the result of a fight with Ray Mancini in Las Vegas on November 13.
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His final fight was a title shot against the then WBA heavyweight title holder David Haye, in which Ruiz was defeated by TKO in round 9.
After petitioning the WBA to protest against the outcome of his controversial fight with Valuev, Ruiz was made the WBA's mandatory challenger to fight the winner of Chagaev-Valuev II in 2009.
Valuev later lost a majority decision to David Haye, meaning Ruiz would now fight Haye for the WBA title, after Haye had recovered from a hand injury.
Following his fight with Vargas, Trinidad moved up in weight – this time to participate in Don King's middleweight unification tournament featuring IBF champion Bernard Hopkins, WBA champion William Joppy, and WBC champion Keith Holmes.
If one of the multiple titles held to earn the designation WBA " Super " Champion is the WBA's own title, then the fighter is promoted to Super champion and the WBA title becomes vacant for other WBA-ranked boxers to fight for.
He relinquished the IBF title and defended the WBO title against undefeated Genaro Hernandez ( 32 – 0 – 1 ), who relinquished the WBA Super Featherweight title to fight De La Hoya.
De La Hoya did not fight for the 15 months and in this time the rivalry between him and WBA and IBA Light Middleweight Champion " Ferocious " Fernando Vargas ( 22 – 1 ) grew.
On June 22, 1979, Holmes faced future WBA Heavyweight Champion Mike Weaver, who was lightly regarded going into the fight sporting an uninspiring 19-8 record.
Holmes signed to fight Gerrie Coetzee, the WBA Champion, on June 15, 1984 at Caesar's Palace.
For fight number 16, Pedroza traveled on the last week of March 1976, to Mexicali, Mexico, to challenge WBA world bantamweight champion Alfonso Zamora for the world title.
Mosley and undefeated WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto met on Nov. 10, 2007, at Madison Square Garden in a fight broadcasted on HBO Pay-Per-View.
The fight was for Margarito's WBA title and the vacant Lineal Welterweight Championships of Lineal Champs and Cyber Boxing Zone ( CBZ ).
This marked the start of another 9 fight winning streak, which led the WBA to make him their number one challenger.
On November 9, 1996, he went on to defeat Mike Tyson by eleventh round technical knockout to win the WBA title, in what was named fight of the year and upset of the year for 1996 by The Ring magazine.
For failing to defend the title against the WBA's # 1 contender Khaosai Galaxy of Thailand, the WBA did not recogonize the fight and would strip Watanabe of the WBA title.
On August 28, 2010 he lost to Marcos Maidana by unanimous decision in a fight in which was disputed, for the WBA light welterweight title.
Kim carried a 17 – 1 – 1 professional record into the Mancini fight and had won 8 bouts by KO before flying to Las Vegas in the WBA as the world's number 1 challenger to world lightweight champion Mancini.
At that time, the WBA and the British Boxing Board of Control ( BBBC ), were in the middle of a feud, and Buchanan was not allowed to fight in the United Kingdom.
Between the fight against Jones and the fight versus Jose Ortiz in 1983, Callejas had a streak of 15 knockout wins in a row, winning Puerto Rico's Jr. Featherweight title and earning a ranking among the world's top Jr. Featherweights with the WBA along the way.
His last fight of the year was against Jose Luis Velazquez whom he defeated by technical knockout to win the vacant WBA Fedelatin featherweight championship.
In June 1981, Leonard moved up to the junior middleweight division for one fight, knocking out Ayub Kalule in nine rounds to win the WBA Junior Middleweight Championship.
WBA and during
* When Mike Tyson lost to James " Buster " Douglas during a WBC and WBA Heavyweight championship defense, Don King convinced the WBC ( along with the WBA ) to withhold recognition of Douglas as heavyweight champion.
The first world champions from Venezuela and Thailand were crowned during the 1960s, and the WBA and WBC started competing against each other, after the WBA changed its name from the National Boxing Association in 1962 and a group split from the WBA in 1963 to form the WBC.
The WBA and WBC, recognizing that Valdez probably wasn't in the best of moods to fight during his first confrontation with Monzon, ordered a second fight between the rivals, and so they fought again, on July 30, 1977, once again at Monte Carlo.
On 3 April 2010 Haye defeated John Ruiz in his first WBA title defence at the Manchester Arena by TKO in the ninth round after knocking him down four times during the fight excluding a point deduction for hitting Ruiz on the back of his head in round one.
" In December 2010, during the negotiations to fight Wladimir Klitschko, Haye said if the fight did not happen, " I'll just have to accept that becoming the WBA champion was enough and move on with my life.
WBA and investigation
As noted above, in the 1871 legislative investigation of coal field agitations and the Reading Railroad, Gowen portrayed the WBA as having at its core a murderous, secret association.
WBA and was
The official outcome, a unanimous-decision defeat, was changed to a no-contest ; the WBA ordered that Ruiz retain the title.
Ruiz's long-time manager, Norman Stone, declared that they would also formally petition the WBA: after all, the 10, 000 German spectators booed when the decision was announced.
Shimakwa alerted WBA officials after that his score was intended for Valuev.
Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown.
He was the WBC lightweight champion from 1983 – 84 and the WBA champion in 1986 – 87 and again in 1989 – 90.
Hopkins held the WBC, WBA, and IBF Middleweight titles and was considered by many to be the number one pound for pound fighter in the world.
In 1982 he was matched with Robbie Williams in South Africa for the vacant WBA title.
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.
Mosley's WBA title was not on the line because Mayweather refused to pay WBA sanctioning fees.
On May 22, 2010, Shane Mosley was stripped of his WBA ( Super ) Welterweight title, due to not making a mandatory defense, which in turn made WBA Champion Vyacheslav Senchenko the sole WBA titlist in the welterweight division.
Cruz kept on fighting, and winning, until he was given a second world title try, this time by the WBA world champion Sergio Palma, in Buenos Aires.
Joe Calzaghe was WBO World Super-Middleweight Champion who then won the WBA, WBC and Ring Magazine super middleweight and Ring Magazine Light-Heavyweight titles.
By the end of 1984, he was ranked number one by the WBA among Flyweights, and on December 8 of that year, he challenged world Flyweight champion Santos Laciar of Argentina at Buenos Aires ' legendary Luna Park.
Breland and Vinny Pazienza followed the championship route for Main Events, winning their first world titles in 1987, year in which he was named Trainer of The Year by the WBA.
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