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The WBA ordered an immediate rematch, and so on October 16 of the same year, Villaflor went to San Juan to defend his title for the second time vs. Serrano.
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WBA and ordered
The official outcome, a unanimous-decision defeat, was changed to a no-contest ; the WBA ordered that Ruiz retain the title.
After Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield for the Undisputed ( i. e., WBC + IBF + WBA ) World heavyweight championship in late 1999, the WBA mysteriously ordered Lewis to defend the title against obscure Don King fighter Ruiz, their # 1-ranked contender, but Lewis refused.
Due to this controversial decision, the WBA ordered an immediate rematch in early 2001, and Ruiz won the WBA title in a slightly less-close unanimous decision-controversial as Ruiz had been decked by a Holyfield body shot and rolled around on the floor holding his groin for over a minute.
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.
WBA and rematch
Ruiz lost a rematch for the vacant WBA Heavyweight title with Valuev on August 30, 2008.
Czyz, despite truly good efforts on his part in both challenges, lost both of them-a 12-round decision to Virgil Hill in North Dakota for the WBA version in March, and a 10th-round TKO loss to Williams in an IBF title rematch in June.
After he knocked out Camel in 8 in a rematch, countryman Ossie Ocasio won the WBA world title, becoming the second pair of Puerto Ricans to share world titles in the same division at the same time, after Alfredo Escalera and Samuel Serrano had achieved the feat in the 1970s at Jr. Lightweight.
Holyfield regained the title in a rematch one year later, beating Bowe by majority decision for the WBA and IBF titles.
* September 13 – Shane Mosley conquers the WBA and WBC world Jr. Middleweight titles with a 12 round unanimous decision over Oscar de la Hoya in rematch of their 2000 bout
After being unable to secure a rematch with Tatsuyoshi, he got his second chance at becoming a world champion, this time against WBA bantamweight champion Johnny Tapia, at Las Vegas, on June 26.
Rather than agreeing to a rematch with Clottey, Margarito vacated the IBF title and agreed to a fight with undefeated WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico.
* May 19-Antonio Cervantes retains his WBA world Jr. Welterweight title with a five round knockout of Alfonso Peppermint Frazer, in their Panama City, Panama rematch.
But Monzon did not feel like fighting the Colombian at that moment, so the WBC stripped Monzon of the world title ( Monzon retained the WBA title ) and made Valdez and Briscoe rematch, this time with the WBC world middleweight title on the line.
Another string of ten defenses would follow, including a rematch with Tate, a close decision over Lou Del Valle ( who almost upset Hill ), and a decision over IBF title holder Henry Maske to unify the belts, before German / Polish fighter & WBO title holder Dariusz Michalczewski scored a unanimous decision over Hill in June 1997 to unify the WBA, WBO & IBF titles.
In a rematch on May 15, 2004 in Las Vegas, Tarver upset the odds to regain the WBC title and win the " WBA Super " title by knocking Jones out in the second round.
He lost his motivation, according to him, after Hopkins refused to give him a rematch of their September 28, 2001 bout, in which Hopkins unified the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles by knocking Trinidad out in twelve rounds.
Ali was scheduled to fight WBA champion Ernie Terrell ( the WBA stripped Ali of his title after his agreement to fight a rematch with Liston ) on March 29, but Terrell backed out and Ali won a 15-round decision against substitute opponent George Chuvalo.
In December 1986, while preparing for a fight with the erratic Mitch " Blood " Green, Don King informed him at short notice that Tony Tubbs had dropped out of his upcoming challenge to reigning WBA champ Tim Witherspoon, and now Smith would be getting a rematch with his former conqueror, his second world title fight.
Taylor did not pay the fees to the WBA amid controversy of the organization removing him from their rankings after questions of whether Taylor followed all procedures for the WBA before his rematch with Hopkins.
In their rematch, Mormeck regained the WBA and WBC belts back from Bell ( Bell lost the IBF title over a dispute from the organization ) by unanimous decision on 17 March 2007.
WBA and so
As it turned out, the match was cancelled after Doroftei exceeded the maximum weight for lightweights at the weigh-in: he was 4¼ lb ( 1. 9 kg ) over the 135 lb ( 61. 2 kg ) weight limit, so he lost his WBA title.
Honeyghan disagreed with the WBA's rules that allowed fights to take place in apartheid South Africa, so he publicly dumped the WBA welterweight belt into a London trash bin soon after winning it, relinquishing the title rather than defending it against South African Harold Volbrecht.
After a couple of fights over the next year or so, it was Hill pitted against 1984 Olympic teammate Frank Tate in September 1992 for the vacant WBA 175-lb.
Evander Holyfield unified the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles to become undisputed champion, the first to do so, and then moved up to the heavyweight division in 1988.
WBA and on
The WBA proposed a number of rule changes, including the use of five designated hitters to replace defensive players who would remain in the game ; the use of one designated runner per game ; the pitcher would be required to throw a pitch within 20 seconds ; a walk would be on three balls instead of the usual four ; and stealing home after the sixth inning would count as two runs.
Frustrated by years of criticism from the boxing press and fans, he retired upon his second loss of the WBA Title on April 30, 2005 ( to James " Lights-Out " Toney ).
After learning of this, the judge decreed that upon entering the ring against Grant on April 29, 2000, Lewis would automatically forfeit the WBA title.
When Jones announced on February 24, 2004 that he would return to competing in the light heavyweight division, the WBA took the interim tag off of Ruiz and he became an official two-time world heavyweight champion.
Chagaev became the mandatory challenger for a shot at Valuev, whom he defeated on April 14, 2007 to claim the WBA heavyweight championship.
The Executive Committee meets periodically, usually on an “ as needed ” basis, to review important issues and make recommendations to the Board regarding WBA policy.
Holmes signed to fight Gerrie Coetzee, the WBA Champion, on June 15, 1984 at Caesar's Palace.
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.
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.
Pedroza won three fights in 1977, two by knockout, and then, on April 1978, the WBA featherweight champion, Cecilio Lastra of Spain, travelled to Panama to defend his title on April 18 against Pedroza, who knocked him out in round 13 to become world featherweight champion.
Mosley and De La Hoya faced each other for the second time on September 13, this time with De La Hoya's The Ring, WBC and WBA Light Middleweight Championships on the line.
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.
Mosley regained the WBA Welterweight Championship from Antonio Margarito on January 24, 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Mosley's WBA title was not on the line because Mayweather refused to pay WBA sanctioning fees.
Following one more win ( a defence of his European Title against Farid Gallouze ), he finally got his world title try when the long reigning WBA featherweight champion, Eusebio Pedroza of Panama, came to London to put his title on the line at Loftus Road football stadium.
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.
WBA and October
On October 25, 1990, Holyfield knocked out Heavyweight Champion James " Buster " Douglas to claim the WBC, WBA, IBF & The Ring Heavyweight titles.
On October 10, 1991, Paez moved up to Lightweight and fought against Pernell Whitaker for the WBC, WBA and IBF Lightweight titles but lost by unanimous decision.
* October 3 – Mike Weaver defeats James ( Quick ) Tillis by a unanimous decision to retain the WBA / World Boxing Association heavyweight title.
* October 4-Wilfredo Vazquez wins the first of three world titles by knocking out WBA world Bantamweight champion Chan-Yong Park in ten rounds at Seoul, South Korea.
* October 29-Julio César Chávez unifies his WBA world Lightweight title with the WBC one, beating his friend and neighbor, José Luis Ramírez, by a technical decision in round eleven in Las Vegas.
* October 28-Antonio Cervantes wins the WBA world Jr. Welterweight title for the first time, with a tenth round knockout of defending champion Alfonso Peppermint Frazer in Panama City, Panama.
* October 20-John Tate defeats Gerrie Coetzee by a fifteen round unanimous decision to win the WBA world Heavyweight title that had been vacated by Muhammad Ali, Pretoria.
Leonard Dorin Doroftei (, also known as Leonard Dorin, though his surname is Doroftei ; born 10 April 1970 ) is a Romanian-Canadian former boxer, the WBA Lightweight World Champion from 5 January 2002 to 24 October 2003.
On October 10, 1998, he beat Moroccan Khalid Rahilou by a twelve-round unanimous decision in Paris, France, becoming the WBA light welterweight champion.
Richard Sandoval ( born 18 October 1960 ) was a Mexican-American professional boxer and is the former WBA Bantamweight Champion.
After one more win, Harada received his first world title try: on October 10 of that year, he became the lineal and WBA world flyweight champion by knocking out Pone Kingpetch in the eleventh round, in Tokyo.
On 19 October 2011 Mundine faced former WBA champion Rigoberto Alvarez for the interim WBA Light Middleweight world title.
On October 18, he met Steve McCrory, the former WBA bantamweight champion, in Houston, beating McCrory by a ten-round decision.
The division was then later recognized by the World Boxing Council ( WBC ) in October 1987, the World Boxing Association ( WBA ) in January 1988, and the World Boxing Organization ( WBO ) in August 1989.
On October 19, 2002, Harris defeated Diobelys Hurtado and captured the WBA junior welterweight title.
According to information provided by Crocodile Music Management, the single was originally scheduled to be released first in October 2005 but the date was moved to 25 November 2005, a day before Sturm's fight with Maselino Masoe for the WBA Championship title.
On 14 October 2006, Kessler was elevated to WBA Super Champion status after winning the WBC title in a unification battle against WBC World Champion Markus Beyer at the Parken Stadium.
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