The WBC also criticizes Catholicism, as it does Eastern Orthodoxy, for venerating the Virgin Mary, the Saints, relics, and icons ; accusing the Catholic Church of committing idolatry.

Though the main purpose of the Priests Rape Boys website is to criticize Catholicism, the WBC also criticizes several mainline Protestant churches on the website, including Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Baptists.

The WBC also criticizes veneration of the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos, saying, " There is no scripture that supports bowing down to kiss images ... or praying to Mary!

The WBC claims that Orthodox Christians are indistinguishable from Roman Catholics.

Administered through the use of a cryogenic chamber, WBC is a treatment whereby the patient is placed in a cryogenic chamber for a short duration ( i. e. no more than three minutes, which is comparable to ice swimming ), and if used properly, will not destroy tissue.

Rocchigiani immediately filed a lawsuit against the WBC in a U. S. federal court, claiming that the organization's actions both were contrary to their own rules and injurious to his earning potential ( due to diminished professional stature ).

Minutes later, the fight ended and Randall had made boxing history, as well as claiming Chávez ' WBC light welterweight championship on a split decision.

WBC heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, claiming the $ 2. 55 million purse he was offered to fight Page wasn't enough, vacated the WBC title.

Norton knocked out previously unbeaten top prospect Duane Bobick in one round and after despatching European title holder Lorenzo Zannon easily, he beat number two contender Jimmy Young ( who himself had beaten George Foreman and Jody Ballard ) in a 15-round split-decision in a WBC big mandatory title-elimination fight, with the winner to face reigning WBC champion Ali, but Ali's camp told Ring Magazine they did not want to fight Norton for a fourth time.

In December 2011, McClellan's family announced they were putting Gerald's WBC world title belts to pay for his continuing round-the-clock care and adapt his house for his changing medical needs and avoid putting him into a nursing home.

Baristas worldwide compete, though they must first compete in a competition held in their own country to qualify to enter in the WBC.

Cornelius Boza-Edwards won the WBC world Jr. Lightweight title from Rafael Limón with a fifteen round decision in 1981 at Stockton, California, this after Limón, a Mexican, had made his infamous You know what happens to British boxers when they face Mexicans comment, in a reference to the fight between Lupe Pintor and Johnny Owen, after which Owen lost his life.

The platelet count is easily separated from the WBC count by the smaller impedance spikes they produce in the detector due to their lower cell volumes.

The WBC launched a website called Priests Rape Boys in which they criticize the Roman Catholic Church because of the Catholic sex abuse scandal, saying, " Every time any person gives any amount of money to the Catholic Church, that person is paying the salary of pedophile rapists.

The WBC describes the Roman Catholic Church as, " the largest, most well-funded and organized pedophile group in the history of man " and goes on to say that, " There are over 1 billion Catholics in the world — that's one out of every six people alive today — and every single one of them will split Hell wide open when they die — period.

In the 2011 documentary America's Most Hated Family in Crisis by Louis Theroux, Megan Phelps-Roper explained in an interview that herself and the other members of the WBC tauntingly and publicly burned a copy of the Quran while being scolded by a Muslim man, calling it an " idolatrous piece of trash " and that they were giving it the " proper respect that it deserves " by doing so.

The WBC maintains a God Hates India webpage where they state " 80 % of India's population claim to practice Hinduism.

In 1996, Phelps began a campaign called " Topeka's Baptist Holocaust ", whereby he attempted to draw attention to attacks perpetrated against WBC picketers, saying that they were not random but organized attacks orchestrated by Jews and homosexuals.

In February 2009, UK news sources discovered that WBC had announced on their website that they intended to picket a youth production of The Laramie Project to be held at Central Studio, Queen Mary's College in Basingstoke on February 20, 2009.

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.

Note that it is often difficult to differentiate osteomyelitis from a Charcot joint, as they may have similar tagged WBC scan and MRI features ( joint destruction, dislocation, edema ).

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* 1989 – Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran complete their trilogy of boxing fights nine years after their first two fights, at the opening of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada ; Leonard retains his WBC world Super Middleweight title by a 12 round unanimous decision.

Around 25, 000 spectators watched international boxing on 1 October 1993, at the National Stadium with a World Boxing Council ( WBC ) Heavyweight title bout between Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno.

In international baseball competitions sanctioned by the IBAF, including Olympic competition and the World Baseball Classic ( WBC ), games are currently ended when one team is ahead by 10 runs, once at least seven completed innings are played by the trailing team.

The inaugural WBC in 2006 followed the IBAF mercy rule, with an additional rule stopping a game after five innings when a team is ahead by at least 15 runs.

* Lennox Lewis knocks out Mike Tyson in an IBF and WBC championship boxing match in Memphis.

His speed, combined with punching power and surprising ring maturity for a 16 year-old, were enough to make him a world-ranked boxer by both the WBA and WBC, then boxing's only world-title recognizing organizations.

Benítez challenged WBC World Champion Carlos Palomino in San Juan.

After that loss, Benitez again moved up in weight, and on May 23, 1981, at age 22, he became the youngest three-time world champion in boxing history by knocking out WBC World Super Welterweight Champion Maurice Hope in twelve rounds in Las Vegas.

In a career that spanned over 25 years, Chávez won six world titles in three weight divisions: WBC Super Featherweight in 1984, WBA Lightweight in 1987, WBC Lightweight in 1988, WBC Light Welterweight in 1989, IBF Light Welterweight in 1990, and WBC Light Welterweight in 1994.

He is the father of prospect Omar Chávez and former WBC Middleweight Champion Julio César Chávez, Jr.

Chávez won his first championship, the vacant WBC Super Featherweight title, on September 13, 1984, by knocking out fellow Mexican Mario " Azabache " Martínez at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.

He successfully defended his WBC Super Featherweight title a total of nine times.

Later that year, he unified the WBA and WBC belts by a technical decision win over champion José Luis Ramírez.

Chavez vacated his WBA and WBC Lightweight titles in order to move up to the super lightweight division.

In his next bout, he won the WBC Light Welterweight title by defeating Roger Mayweather for a second time.

On December 8, 1990, he defeated the WBC mandatory challenger Kyung-Duk Ahn ( 29-1 ) by third round knockout.

On March 18, 1991, he defeated WBC number four ranked fighter John Duplessis ( 34-1 ) by fourth round TKO.

After a division record 20 consecutive defenses of his light welterweight title, Chávez ( 87-0 ) moved up one more weight division to challenge Pernell Whitaker ( 32-1 ) for his WBC Welterweight title in September 1993.

The WBC ordered an immediate rematch and Chávez regained the title on a split technical decision in May 1994.

Under WBC rules, Randall lost one point, giving Chávez the technical victory.

A year after De La Hoya moved up to welterweight in 1997, Chávez fought Miguel Ángel González for the vacant WBC Light Welterweight title.