José Sulaimán said the WBC did so because Spinks was signed for a rematch with Ali instead of fighting a Don King fighter, Ken Norton.

Even though WBC rules said the mandatory challenger should receive a shot at the title, the WBC withdrew its sanction from the fight and then stripped Chacon for refusing to fight Camacho.

Vargas also recalled the time when Mayorga said Vargas was scared of him when he had defeated Javier Castillejo, then was stripped of his WBC light middleweight title rather than face Mayorga, who then defeated Michele Piccirillo for the vacant title.

As this date approached, Klitschko's camp said that the thigh had not fully healed ; the WBC made July 23 the new fight date.

On November 7, it was announced that Klitschko had suffered severe right knee injuries during training ; the WBC said it would strip him of the championship if he was unable to box within 60 – 90 days of a soon-to-be-announced base date.

All non-Christian entities, non-Protestant Christian churches, and all Protestant Christian churches that do not strongly condemn homosexuality or align their beliefs and practices exactly with that of the WBC are said to be sending their members to Hell.

Margie Phelps, daughter of pastor Fred Phelps and attorney for WBC, said in an interview with Fox News that Obama is " absolutely " going to hell, and that he is " most likely the Beast spoken of in the Revelation ".

Columnist Ronnie Nathanielz wrote in his column June 18 "... But like we said, you win some and you lose some and we were personally elated that journalist / judge Rey Danseco, despite the shared misgivings of WBC president Don José Sulaimán and myself, performed admirably and fairly despite being a close friend of both manager / promoter Bebot Elorde and Rubillar.

The fight was so close that WBC president José Sulaimán decided to give Laporte a rematch vs Sanchez for the World Boxing Council's world title.

He was the WBC lightweight champion from 1983 – 84 and the WBA champion in 1986 – 87 and again in 1989 – 90.

Monzón's Middleweight Championship title was lifted in 1975 by the WBC for not defending it against mandatory challenger Rodrigo Valdez.

The first WBC World Female Champion ( on May 30, 2005 ) was super-bantamweight Mexican, Jackie Nava.

* In 1983, WBC Super Featherweight champion Bobby Chacon was signed to fight the WBC's mandatory challenger for his title, Cornelius Boza Edwards.

However, in 1993, the Don King promoted super-middleweight showdown between WBC champion Nigel Benn and WBO champion Chris Eubank was recognized as a title unification fight by the WBC.

* When Mike Tyson was released from prison in 1995, the WBC installed him as their # 1 contender for their heavyweight championship.

* In 2000, King-promoted Julio César Chávez was the mandatory challenger for Kostya Tszyu's WBC super lightweight title.

In early 1998, Roy Jones, Jr. announced that he was relinquishing his WBC light heavyweight title.

On March 21, 1998 Rocchigiani won the fight and a WBC belt ; in the subsequent WBC rankings, he was listed as " Light-Heavyweight World Champion.

Rocchigiani received a letter from the WBC advising that the publishing of his name as champion was a typographical error, and he had never really been the official titleholder.

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.

For the second time in his career, his climb to the top was shattered over a bad contract and Jesús was forced to resign his WBC Continental Americas Light Middleweight title because of non-defense.

Vargas was the youngest fighter to become world light middleweight champion until Saul Alvarez won the vacant WBC belt in March 2011.

It was confirmed on May 13, 2007 that Vargas would face Ricardo Mayorga on September 8, 2007, on Showtime PPV for the vacant WBC Continental Americas super middleweight title.

The Fight Of The Millennium was a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 18, 1999, to unify the WBC and IBF's world Welterweight championships.

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.

After eight consecutive knockouts, Holmes was forced to go the distance when he successfully defended his title against future WBC Heavyweight Champion Trevor Berbick on April 11, 1981.

The boxing world championship bout held on March 17, 1990 between WBC Jr. Welterweight world champion Julio César Chávez of Mexico and IBF world champion Meldrick Taylor of the United States was a historic boxing match.

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.

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

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.

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

In a rematch with De La Hoya for the WBC Welterweight belt in September 1998, De La Hoya won by 8th round TKO.

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.

After Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield for the Undisputed ( i. e., WBC + IBF + WBA ) World heavyweight championship in late 1999, the WBA mysteriously ordered Lewis to defend the title against obscure Don King fighter Ruiz, their # 1-ranked contender, but Lewis refused.

Klitschko, however, did not want to fight the # 2 contender, former WBC, IBF, and lineal champion Hasim Rahman, for the interim championship.

* The World Awaits-Floyd Mayweather, Jr. beat Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC super-welterweight title.

Then, the WBC decided to put Laporte vs. Colombian Mario Miranda for the vacant world title in a fight held at the Madison Square Garden.

In 1986, Laporte fought Julio César Chávez at the Madison Square Garden, and many thought Laporte should've deserved the 12 round decision that night, but he lost a majority decision in a contest for Chavez's WBC world Jr. Lightweight title.

When World Junior Lightweight champion Bobby Chacón refused to go to Puerto Rico to defend his title against Camacho, the WBC declared the world championship vacant, and the man Chacon had taken the title from, Rafael Limón, fought Camacho for the vacant title.

All WBC world title belts look identical regardless of weight class ; however, there are minor variations on the design for secondary and regionally-themed titles within the same weight class.

When a WBO-recognized champion wished to fight for a WBC championship, he had to abandon his WBO title first, without any special considerations.

In 1983, the WBC took the unprecedented step of reducing the distance of its world championship bouts, from 15 rounds to 12 — a move other organizations soon followed ( for boxers ' safety ).

The WBC bolstered the legitimacy of women's boxing by recognizing fighters such as Christy Martin and Lucia Rijker as contenders for World Female titles in 16 weight divisions.