WBC was present at a 2002 Holocaust memorial dedication in Topeka, proclaiming " God Hates Reform Judaism ".

On May 14, 2008, two days after the deadly 2008 Sichuan earthquake, WBC issued a press release thanking God for the heavy loss of life in China, and praying " for many more earthquakes to kill many more thousands of impudent and ungrateful Chinese ".

On May 30, 2011, the WBC was present at Arlington National Cemetery's Memorial Day services as part of their " Thank God for Dead Soldiers " campaign.

Megan stated that the cause of the wife's death was partly due to her Muslim husband having spoken out against the WBC, and therefore rejecting God and bringing His " righteous judgement " down upon him.

Parodying the WBC all-capitals " God hates fags " signs, the counter-protest signs often invoke a passage in the Biblical book of Matthew to justify the claim about God and his feelings about figs.

Then, he retained the WBC title with a knockout in six over Danilo Batista, and finished 1976 with a trip to Spain, where he retained the belt against challenger Juan Rodriguez, beaten in five.

After two more decision wins, Watanabe flew to South Korea, where he challenged the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Chul-Ho Kim, losing in his first world title bid by a 15 round decision.

Callejas was given an opportunity by the WBC to fight for another world title in 1988, and so he travelled to Australia, where he met Jeff Fenech on March 7, losing by a knockout in ten for the vacant WBC's world Featherweight title.

After winning two fights in 1976, Palomino found himself and his trainers travelling to London, where an internationally televised world championship bout awaited him against WBC world Welterweight champion John H. Stracey, a British boxing teacher who had dethroned José Nápoles as world champion.

** WBC declared title vacant pending a rematch, asserting that referee Billy Conn was favoring Ortíz, giving him the benefit of a long count in the 2d and improperly stopping the match in the 5th round because of a cut to Ramos in the first fight the controversy caused a riot where the ring was torn down, guns were fired and Ortíz had to leave the ring with a bucket over his head.

* December 7-The decade in boxing finishes almost where it started, as Sugar Ray Leonard defends his WBC world Super Middleweight title with a twelve round unanimous decision victory over Roberto Durán in their third encounter.

This time, Pacquiao went to super bantamweight, or junior featherweight, division of 122 pounds, where he picked up the WBC International Super Bantamweight title.

Maskaev, a former mine worker, began his career in the 1980s as an amateur boxer in the Soviet Union, where he held a victory over later WBC world champion Vitali Klitschko.

Glen Johnson defeated Allen Green by a knockout in the eighth round, on November 6, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada and with that win proceeded to the Semi-Final of the Super 6 Tournament where he faced Carl Froch for a place in the Super 6 Final and WBC world Super-Middleweight 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.

The WBC criticizes the Eastern Orthodox Church's use of icons, claiming that they constitute idolatry.

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.

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 ).

A slightly easier calculation is (% neutrophils + % bands ) x ( WBC )/ 100, 000

Other notable world title fights included the 6 knockdowns of three-time world champion Dennis Andries to win the WBC Light Heavyweight title in March 1987, his four-round destruction of the feared Juan Roldán ( 63-2 ) later that year to claim the WBC Middleweight title, his TKO " Ring Magazine 1988 upset of the year " loss to Iran Barkley in his first defense of that same title, and his win against James " the Heat " Kinchen ( 44-3 ) for the newly created WBO Super Middleweight title.

On October 25, 1990, Holyfield knocked out Heavyweight Champion James " Buster " Douglas to claim the WBC, WBA, IBF & The Ring Heavyweight titles.

After that, and more specifically after Héctor Camacho defeated José Luis Ramírez to claim the WBC title on August 10 of that year, there was widespread talks about a series of fights between Bramble, Camacho and IBF world Lightweight champion Jimmy Paul, to see who would become the unified world champion.

Canto defeated Oguma by a fifteen round decision to claim the WBC title and vacant The Ring title.

A Mexican slugger, Lupe Pintor had edged a controversial split decision over stable mate and long-time champion Carlos Zarate to lay claim to his WBC World Bantamweight title.

Both had a claim to being the rightful WBC belt holder.

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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.