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.

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

* Under WBC rules, a fighter is supposed to defend his title against a mandatory challenger at least once a year.

Holmes, whose left jab is considered one of the greatest weapons in the history of sports, was the WBC Heavyweight Champion from 1978 to 1983, The Ring Heavyweight Champion from 1980 to 1985, and the IBF Heavyweight Champion from 1983 to 1985.

Mosley agreed to terms for the return to the MGM on May 5 against WBC 154-pound belt holder Saúl " Canelo " Álvarez, a man 18. 95 years younger than he is.

Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. ( born August 9, 1943, Jacksonville, Illinois ) is an American former heavyweight boxer and former WBC Heavyweight Champion.

Ken Norton is a 1989 inductee of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, a 1992 inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame, a 2004 inductee into the United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame, and a 2008 inductee into the WBC Hall of Fame.

Holyfield is the only 4-time World Heavyweight Champion, winning the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles in 1990, the WBA and IBF titles in 1993 and the WBA title in 1996 and 2000.

Pintor is a double World Champion, having held the WBC World Bantamweight Championship from 1978 until 1983 and the WBC World Super Bantamweight Championship from 1985 to 1986.

Páez is also the father of welterweight prospect Azriel Páez and WBC Youth Intercontinental Welterweight Champion Jorge Páez, Jr ..

He is also the father of welterweight prospect Azriel Páez and WBC Youth Intercontinental Welterweight Champion Jorge Páez, Jr ..

He is the former WBA / WBC Welterweight champion and the former WBC light middleweight champion.

He has won numerous world titles in three different weight classes ; he is a former three-time WBO Super Bantamweight, WBC, Lineal, & The Ring Featherweight and WBC & IBF Super Featherweight Champion.

Gerald McClellan ( born October 23, 1967 in Freeport, Illinois ) is a former boxer from the United States of America, who was the WBO and WBC middleweight champion.

The International Boxing Federation or IBF is one of four major organizations recognized by the IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC and WBO.

Palomino is a former WBC Welterweight Champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Acre is the reigning WBO Bantamweight Champion and the former WBO Super Bantamweight, WBO Super Flyweight, Interim WBA Super Flyweight, Interim WBC Flyweight, WBC Light Flyweight and WBO Light Flyweight Champion.

A former WBA Bantamweight champion, Solis is the only world champion in a family that produced two other world-class boxers: brother Enrique was outpointed by WBA Featherweight champion Eusebio Pedroza, and brother Rafael was knocked out in five rounds by WBC Super featherweight champion Héctor Camacho in 1983.

Rahman is the former Lineal, WBC, IBO, & IBF heavyweight champion.

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.

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

Considered one of the greatest fighters in history, Chávez won six world titles in three weight divisions: WBC Super Featherweight ( 1984 ), WBA Lightweight ( 1987 ), WBC Lightweight ( 1988 ), WBC Light Welterweight ( 1989 ), IBF Light Welterweight ( 1990 ) and WBC Light Welterweight ( 1994 ) for the second time.

The WBC has also created a " Silver " world title recently, with Justin Savi to be the first one to win it on April 16, 2010, against Cyril Thomas in France.

De La Hoya successfully defended his titles with a twelve round unanimous decision against undefeated former WBC Lightweight Champion and number one light welterweight contender Miguel Ángel González ( 41 – 0 – 0 ).

After seven defenses of his Lineal and WBC Welterweight titles, De La Hoya fought rival and IBF Champion Félix Trinidad ( 35 – 0 ) on September 18, 1999, in one of the biggest pay-per-view events in history, setting a record for a non-heavyweight fight.

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.

Following one successful title defense, Dávila suffered back injuries, leading the WBC to strip him of his title.

The WBC assigned its number one challenger, Dávila, to face its third-ranked fighter, Kiko Bejines, for the title.

After knocking out former world title challenger Nestor Jimenez in two rounds at Mexicali to end 1975, the WBC made Zarate their number one challenger at the Bantamweight division.

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.

The WBC then ordered a match between the new champion and its number one contender, but Spinks chose instead to give the fallen champion the first shot at taking his title rather than face the still dangerous Norton.

He beat Limón in their third bout, and the WBC once again made him their number one challenger.

He had three more wins in 1979, including one over the two time world Flyweight champion Freddie Castillo, and by the end of that year he was ranked number one in the world among Jr. Flyweight challengers by the WBC.

The WBC for one agreed this and set about organising it in 1977 as below.

On his way to becoming the number one contender for the middleweight title of each of the three major sanctioning bodies ( WBA, WBC, and IBF ), Mugabi ran roughshod over the division and finished each of his opponents inside the distance.

He became number one contender for the WBC 154 lb title in August 1988 but could not land a fight with then champion Donald Curry.

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

World champions whom Chávez defeated include Jose Luis Ramírez, Rafael Limón, Rocky Lockridge, Meldrick Taylor, Roger Mayweather, Lonnie Smith, Sammy Fuentes, Héctor " Macho " Camacho, Juan Laporte, Edwin Rosario, Greg Haugen, Tony López, Giovanni Parisi, Joey Gamache and Frankie Randall, who had taken the WBC Light Welterweight belt from Chávez just four months earlier.

González decorated amateur career includes wins over 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist and current WBA World Super Middleweight Champion Andre Ward ( 24-0, 13KO ); WBO Light Middleweight Champion Alfredo Angulo ( 19-1, 16KO ); IBA Intercontinental Light Middleweight champion Sechew Powell ( 26-2, 15KO ); and an astonishing four wins over former WBC Welterweight Champion Andre Berto ( 27-1, 21KO ).

So, after beating Cesar Desiga by a knockout in four on March 29, 1976 in Monterrey, Zarate was faced on the night of May 8 of that year with defending WBC Bantamweight Champion Rodolfo Martínez in Los Angeles.

After retaining the title against Emilio Hernandez by a knockout in four and winning a non title bout, Zarate announced he was moving up in weight and challenging the WBC Super Bantamweight champion, Wilfredo Gómez.

Barrera then competed in his 60th career fight on 12 April 2003, defeating former WBC title holder Kevin Kelley by knockout in round four.

Hearns knocked out Juan Roldan in four rounds in late 1987 to win the vacant WBC Middleweight Championship, becoming the first boxer to win titles in four weight divisions.

* January 31-In the first world title fight scheduled for twelve rounds instead of fifteen in various decades, Rafael Orono retains his WBC world Jr. Bantamweight championship with a four round knockout over Pedro Romero in Caracas, Venezuela.

* November 3-In a rematch of their 1983 bout, José Luis Ramírez avenges his defeat against Edwin Rosario, knocking him out in four rounds to win the WBC world Lightweight title in San Juan.

* November 7-The first fight involving titles in two different categories and the world Super Middleweight championship sees Sugar Ray Leonard become boxing's second four division world champion and its first five division world champion when he knocks out WBC world Light Heavyweight champion Donnie LaDonde in the ninth round, also winning the WBC's vacant Super Middleweight championship, at Las Vegas.

* May 17-Carlos De León becomes the first boxer to win the world Cruiserweight title four times ( and also joins a handful of champions who have won world titles in one division that many times ) when he knocks out Sammy Reeson in nine rounds in London, picking up the WBC belt that had been vacated by his former conqueror, Evander Holyfield, when Holyfield moved to the Heavyweight division.

* April 23-In a fight without any titles at stake, WBC world Bantamweight champion Carlos Zarate defeats WBA world champion Alfonso Zamora in four rounds at Inglewood.

According to university officials, between 700 and 1, 200 students amassed to counter four WBC picketers who appeared at the campus after the event.

He also expressed his desire to become the first Mexican fighter to win four WBC titles in different divisions and surpass Julio César Chávez's record by campaigning at the lightweight class of.

After winning his next four fights, including a rematch victory over Tarcisio Gomez, he was given his first world title try, when he fought Betulio González in Maracaibo, Venezuela, for the WBC world Flyweight title.

In a shocking upset in December, 1993, Simon Brown, former WBC and IBF welterweight titlist, knocked out Norris in four rounds to win the title and halt Norris ' defense streak at ten.

With the WBC title declared vacant, Gonzalez got a second chance at it, and, on June 3 of 1972, he became a world champion by knocking out Socrates Batoto in four rounds.

Currently, winning an EBU title is considered important, but not necessary, by many European boxers in order to go on and fight for a world title of the four most widely recognized world championship boxing organizations, the IBF, WBO, WBA and WBC.