Bishop Odo of Bayeux fought at Hastings ( 1066 ) before any such authorized champions of the church existed.

Although this restriction is often exaggerated, as there were few heavyweight contenders at the time who were of " black " ethnicity, however in the other weight divisions there were black fighters who fought for the title as well as notable black champions such as Tiger Flowers.

Other boxers he fought in his career were the world champions American Denny Moyer, Cuban Luis Rodríguez, Argentinian Carlos Monzón, Nigerian Dick Tiger, Mexican José Nápoles and in his last title try, German Eckhard Dagge.

Watanabe, who fought only in Japan and South Korea, was one of the first World Super flyweight champions, as the division was relatively new when he was crowned.

He fought during a period when an unusual number of accomplished welterweights were active: Sugar Ray Leonard, Wilfred Benítez, Carlos Palomino, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Durán, although his reign had nearly come to an end as Leonard, Benítez, Hearns, and Duran emerged as welterweight champions.

Loughran fought many middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight champions in his career, including Gene Tunney, Jack Sharkey and Georges Carpentier.

Boza-Edwards also fought to, and lost against, other world champions such as his rematch with Chacon, Alexis Argüello by knockout in eight, Héctor Camacho by decision in twelve, Rocky Lockridge, by decision in ten and José Luis Ramírez by knockout in five.

Many other world champions fought on this show, including Oscar de La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Roy Jones Jr., Arturo Gatti, Fernando Vargas, Hector Camacho and Antonio Tarver.

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.

This belonging of the Breberienses to the universe of Rome is revealed by their emergence to power in the time when Croatia was placed under papal suzerainty during the reign of Zvonimir ( 1075 – 89 ), and also when later they bitterly fought and defeated ( 1227 ) the Kacic kindred, champions of the heretical party.

On his 19th birthday, he fought John Beckles during the 1984 London ABAs, both being national champions.

It was fought at a site midway between the Breton castles of Josselin and Ploërmel between thirty champions, knights and squires on each side, in a challenge issued by Jean de Beaumanoir, a captain of Charles of Blois supported by the King of France, to Robert Bemborough, a captain of Jean de Montfort supported by the King of England.

Langford was a boxer who fought greats from the lightweight division right up to the heavyweights, beating many champions in the process.

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.

He fought against the Protestant champions Gábor Bethlen and György Rákóczi and sought to free Hungary from Turkish domination.

in 1939 won the first East title and fought for the Dutch title with the other four district champions.

Ray never fought for the title, but did fight future heavyweight champions Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott.

Bennie fought Middleweight champions Marvin Hagler, Vito Antuofermo, Rodrigo Valdez, Emile Griffith and Carlos Monzón.

Uzcudun, known as Paulino in the United States, was the European heavyweight champion, and he fought heavyweight champions Joe Louis, Max Baer, Max Schmeling ( three times ) and Primo Carnera ( twice ) during his career.

During his career Genaro fought 10 world champions and three Hall of Famers.

While this pair of world junior flyweight champions fought three times, their first fight is the one that writers and fans usually remember with fondness.

When the champions of either side met to fight spectacular duels in and out of the clouds, the rest of the war seemed forgotten ; even the man in the trenches paused to watch, as the hosts of Greece and Troy stood by when Hector and Achilles fought.

In 2010, the 1st XV for Rugby, won the Lancashire Cup Final, and became champions in a hard fought match against Merchant Taylor's Crosby, this achievement was followed by the U14s and the U15s as they were victorious in finals against Merchant Taylor's Crosby and Manchester Grammar School, respectively.

In addition to Bernard Hopkins, Paul Williams, " Sugar " Shane Mosley, Angel Hernandez, Felix Trinidad and Jermain Taylor, Wright has fought former world champions Bronco McKart three times, Keith Mullings, Fernando Vargas, Harry Simon, Ike Quartey and Julio Cesar Vasquez.

Although Atlético Madrid, previously known as Atlético Aviación, were champions in 1950 and 1951 under catenaccio mastermind Helenio Herrera, the 1950s saw the beginning of the Barcelona / Real Madrid dominance.

Between 1993 and 2004, Deportivo La Coruña finished in the top three on ten occasions, a better record than either Real Madrid or Barcelona, and in 2000, under Javier Irureta, they became the ninth team to be crowned champions.

The two champions from those years competed against teams from the UK for the " College Bowl World Championship ," which were also televised ; in 1978, Stanford University played a team of UK all-stars under College Bowl rules, and in 1979, Davidson College played Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University under University Challenge rules.

Drogheda is also home to many rugby playing schools, including St. Mary's who are the under 14 Leinster rugby champions.

Southampton continued to progress well under McMenemy's stewardship, and with a team containing Peter Shilton, Nick Holmes, David Armstrong, top-scorer Steve Moran and Danny Wallace reached their highest ever league finish as runners-up in 1983 – 84 ( 3 points behind the champions Liverpool ) as well as reaching the semi-final of the FA Cup losing 1 – 0 to Everton at Highbury Stadium.

After finishing the 1914 – 15 season as Southern League champions under the management of Harry Kent, Watford joined The Football League in 1920.

For not only does he omit the name of St. Augustine of Hippo, who was especially obnoxious to them, when making honorable mention at any time of the champions of the faith, but he denounces his doctrine, though under a misrepresentation of it, as one of the forms of that novel error which he reprobates.

In Basketball, Ralston was named state champions as of 2009 under the coaching of Bill Heard.

The Sawtell Panthers are the current champions in first grade and under 18s, and Woolgoolga Seahorses were runners up to the Port Macquarie Sharks in reserve grade.

Reading were promoted to the Second Division as champions in 1986 under the management of Ian Branfoot, but were relegated back to the Third Division in 1988.

A new approach under former Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy saw the club promoted back to the Premier League in 2009 as Football League Championship champions where they remained for three seasons.

In 1988, his twin brother, fighting under the name Kaokor Galaxy, captured the WBA bantamweight title, making the Saenkham brothers the only twins to ever be world boxing champions.

The 2009 tournament saw Morzine under 11 team crowned champions for the second consecutive year after victory in the final against Megeve.

Going into the year as world champions, they were under pressure to perform.

In 1947, the Big Ten Conference and the Pacific Coast Conference, a forerunner of today's Pacific-12 Conference, agreed to commit their champions to play in the Rose Bowl every year, an agreement that continued under the BCS.

Nash later named Young one third of the champions under the Freebird rule.

Brentford won promotion as champions again in 1998 – 99 under manager and chairman Ron Noades.

Chesterfield spent eight seasons in the Fourth Division, earning promotion as champions in 1969 – 70 under manager Jimmy McGuigan.

In 2010, Marseille became French champions again, under the stewardship of former club captain Didier Deschamps.

They were somewhat successful in non-league football, while under the name Leytonstone & Ilford, they were crowned Isthmian League champions during 1981 – 82.

Palermo failed in its first attempt to reach the Serie A in 2002 – 03 on the final week of the season, but later managed to achieve it after a hard but successful 2003 – 04 campaign which saw Palermo crowned as Serie B champions and promoted to Serie A after 31 years under head coach Francesco Guidolin, who was hired in January 2004 as replacement for dismissed Silvio Baldini.

Television was in its infancy in the 1940s, but nonetheless, viewers were treated to many 10-round, non title fights, and many crown challengers became household names under the absence of so many world champions.