It was the last bout in a multi-bout fight card that included an Azumah Nelson knockout victory in two rounds over Puerto Rico's Alberto Collazo ; Jeff Malcolm's ten round decision win over future Aaron Pryor conqueror Bobby Joe Young ; a fight between two of former Holmes challengers in which Alfredo Evangelista outpointed Snipes over ten rounds, and future world champion Tim Witherspoon's spectacular first round knockout win over former title challenger ( WBA title, Mike Weaver ) challenger James Tillis.

Her challengers included Lieutenant Governor Jones, Lexington mayor Scotty Baesler, and Dr. Floyd G. Poore, the former Kentucky highway director.

Circuit Court ultimately ruled in 2005 that because Congress vested discretionary power in the FEC ( meaning that an FEC action would have to rise to the level of arbitrary and capricious to be challenged ), the court would not overrule the FEC's determinations that " found that the third-party challengers had failed to provide ' evidence that the CPD is controlled by the DNC or the RNC ,'" and that the CPD provided sufficient rationale for barring third party candidates from entering the debates as audience members out of fear they might have disrupted the live debates in protest over having been excluded as debate particpants.

The Afghans gathered near Kandahar in October 1747 and chose Ahmad Shah among the challengers, making him their new head of state.

Even though historically they emerge as serious challengers to the nascent Japanese state they had inherited a rich and separate tradition that went back several millennia before the Japanese speakers came to the islands of Japan.

In a crowded Democratic field of challengers, Dayton chose to bypass the state caucuses and convention in favor of the primary election.

Among the top reasons for this include the more conservative upstate region holding more clout in the State Senate, as well as Long Island, where voters are increasingly trending toward the Democrats on the state and local levels continue to re-elect their incumbent state senators ( some of whom have served for many years, such as 30 + year veteran, and most of whom have raised considerable amounts of money to deter challengers ).

He built a powerful patronage machine using unclassified city employees and used it to defeat opponents in the state legislature — including Hank Braden, Louis Charbonnet, and Nick Connor — by personally sponsoring little-known challengers.

As a Republican congresswoman representing an affluent Democratic district in an increasingly Democratic state, Morella faced a succession of increasingly strong Democratic challengers.

However, despite attempting to garner enough support within the GOP establishment to ward-off any primary challengers, a late entrant to the race, St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman, garnered enough delegates to win the Republican endorsement at the GOP state convention in summer 1998.

♦ Primary Election: The primary, held on August 7, 2012, was billed by the media as a decisive battle between moderate republicans, particularly those in the state senate aligned with the Senate leadership, and conservative republican challengers, generally aligned with Governor Brownback.

Still, the representatives of state power generally ignored or restricted the challengers and, in any event, a new cosmological state, Rome, ended both stirrings and established an even stronger cosmological unity.

* Peachcare, a state program providing medical care for needy children and families, emerged as a point of contention between Perdue and his challengers.

In 2006, the $ 3 million that he had provided to forty Republican challengers to Democratic state legislators brought just a single victory.

In the March 8, 2005 general election, Hahn placed second to Antonio Villaraigosa ; placing ahead of former Speaker of the Assembly Bob Hertzberg, Councilman Bernard Parks, State Senator Richard Alarcon, and about seven lesser known challengers.

In the Republican primary, he drew three challengers, most notably State Senator Scott Beason.

On August 17, 2010 Rossi defeated his Republican primary challengers, but lost to incumbent Senator Patty Murray ( a Democrat ) in the November 2 general election 47 % to 52 %.

His most recent attempt at running for political office was in 2004, when he ran as a third party candidate for US Senator from New York against Charles Schumer and other challengers.

" I believe I can do a better job ..." Pfeffer also commented that he would have a hard time raising an amount equivalent to Senator Bingaman, a problem faced by any of the latter's potential challengers.

In the 2008 General Election, Republican incumbents David H. Barad ( 1, 616 votes ) and John Kashwick ( 1, 590 ) won re-election to new, three-year terms in office, fending off Democratic challengers Leonard J. Asch ( 1, 541 ) and running mate Michael " Jack " Kelly ( 1, 453 ).

Designed by Waters to be " an exercise in poor taste ," the film featured Divine as Babs Johnson, " the filthiest person alive ," who is forced to prove her right to the title from challengers, jealous perverts Connie ( Mink Stole ) and Raymond Marble ( David Lochary ).

In 2012, Burton faced a number of challengers in the Republican primary including McGoff, former U. S. Attorney Susan Brooks, former U. S. Congressman David McIntosh, and attorney Jack Lugar.

Watson defeated her challengers in the California June 3 primary, and defeated Republican David Crowley in the November 4, 2008, election.

Strauss fought a number of top challengers and world champions in the middleweight division, including Charlie Weir, Bobby Czyz, Eckhard Dagge, Al Ford, Billy Collins, Mike McCallum, Marlon Starling, Nino Gonzalez, Juan Jose Gimenez, David Braxton, Al Ford and Davey Hilton, among others.

In 1994, Chenoweth won the Republican nomination for Idaho's 1st Congressional District over former Lieutenant Governor David H. Leroy and two other challengers.

After the war the yard built the successful one-class Loch Longs and two David Boyd designed 12-Metre challengers for the America's Cup: Sceptre ( 1958 ) and Sovereign ( 1964 ).

In the 2010 general election, incumbents Thomas Sarlo and Sue Schuck were re-elected to three-year terms of office, knocking off Republican challengers Foster Lowe and Claudia Zilocchi.

His two main challengers were François Mitterrand for the left and Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a former Gaullist prime minister.

Among the fighters he beat were former world title challengers Jose Caba and Felipe Orozco.

However, he returned to the ring between 1988 and 1989, beating former world title challengers Nicky Perez and Francisco Tomas Da Cruz as well as contender Julio Cesar Miranda before losing to British future World Title challenger Jim McDonnell by a technical knockout ( cuts ) in four rounds.

During this period of his reign, Molina made seven defenses, beating challengers like Bernard Taylor, Floyd Havard, Wilson Rodriguez, former world Featherweight champion Gregorio Vargas and future world Featherweight champion Manuel " Mantecas " Medina, among others.

Dole was initially a heavy favorite for re-election, especially after several potential top-tier challengers such as Congressman Brad Miller, Governor Mike Easley and former Governor Jim Hunt all declined to compete against Dole.

Bockwinkel faced numerous challengers for the title during the early 1980s including eventual champions Rick Martel and Otto Wanz, former champion Mad Dog Vachon, and perennial contenders Wahoo McDaniel, and Brad Rheingans, but perhaps his most famous opponent would go on to become arguably the greatest superstar in wrestling history.

Although Fletcher's agreement with Stumbo to end the investigation was announced in late 2006, the scandal continued to plague his re-election bid, and he drew two challengers in the Republican primary – former Third District Congresswoman Anne Northup and multi-millionaire Paducah businessman Billy Harper.

After that loss, he built a streak of thirteen wins in a row, including wins over former world title challengers James Busceme and Gaetan Hart, as well as top ten ranked fighters like Jerome Artis and Rafael Williams.

He fought on, and met some future or former world champions such as Freddie Pendleton, Charles Murray, James " Buddy " McGirt, Roger Mayweather, Rafael Ruelas and Kostya Tszyu, as well as world title challengers like Wilfredo Rivera, Oba Carr and Darryl Tyson.

The 22-year-old Pillsbury became a celebrity in the United States and abroad by winning the tournament, finishing ahead of reigning world champion Emanuel Lasker, former world champion Wilhelm Steinitz, recent challengers Mikhail Chigorin and Isidor Gunsberg, and future challengers Siegbert Tarrasch, Carl Schlechter and Dawid Janowski.

During his reign, he wrestled across America and even in Japan, facing well-known challengers such as former champion Bruno Sammartino, Jack Brisco, Dusty Rhodes, Pedro Morales, Don Muraco, Mil Mascaras and Riki Chōshū.

Kerry selected a vice presidential candidate from among former challengers for the Democratic nomination:

However, he chose not to endorse either of the remaining Democratic challengers, California State Controller Alan Cranston and former Presidential press secretary Pierre Salinger.

Dissidents from the two main parties usually have chances to win elections, if they are not confronted by strong challengers from their own former party ( in which cases their traditional opponents tend to win ).

His challengers were former prime minister Laurent Fabius and Ségolène Royal, the president of the Poitou-Charentes region.

A seat containing former mining towns and villages like Bedlington and Ashington, this is safely Labour with the Liberal Democrats being the main challengers.

A native Rochdalian and a former Labour Party member himself, he had a substantial personal vote which always helped to see off his Labour challengers.