* Archie Moore, the Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, former enrollee

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.

* On November 26, 1986 Mike Tyson became the youngest boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World at age 20.

During World War II in the United States Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis and numerous stars and performers from American baseball and other sports served in the armed forces until the end of the war.

* September 17 – Ric Flair defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City.

* Primo Carnera ( 1906 – 1967 ), Italian boxer, World Heavyweight champion 1933-1934

Several future stars made guest appearances, including Jennifer Aniston, Josie Bissett, Michael Beach, Terry Farrell, Diedrich Bader, Robert Duncan McNeill, Jason Priestley, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eriq La Salle, Patricia Richardson, Patrick Warburton, Anna Gunn, Claudia Christian, James Morrison, Gregory Itzin, Lauren Tom, Jane Sibbett, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, Michael Madsen, Jon Gries, Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb, Neal McDonough, and former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk.

He defended his title in December against Wells, in January 1914 against Pat O ' Keefe and in London on July 16 he beat Ed " Gunboat " Smith to add the " White Heavyweight Champion of the World " to his European title.

The NWA recognized an undisputed NWA World Heavyweight Champion that went to several different wrestling companies in the alliance and defended the belt around the world.

* Ray Mercer, American professional boxer, former WBO World Heavyweight Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist

Johnson won his first title on February 3, 1903, beating Denver Ed Martin on points in a 20-round match for the World Colored Heavyweight Championship.

After Johnson became the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World on December 26, 1908, his World Colored Heavyweight Championship was vacated.

Sam Langford subsequently claimed the title during Jeanette's reign after Johnson refused to defend the World Heavyweight Championship against him.

In addition WWE's other world championship, the World Heavyweight Championship has changed hands twice at the Garden.

Played by real-life boxer Antonio Tarver, Dixon is the current World Heavyweight Champion who is ridiculed for having never gone up against a real contender, and who thus agrees to an exhibition fight against the near 60 year old Rocky Balboa.

* 1991 competed as a Light Heavyweight at the World Championships in Sydney, Australia.

* 1982 World Amateur Championships Heavyweight, 1st

Tommy Burns ( June 17, 1881May 10, 1955 ), born Noah Brusso, is the only Canadian born World Heavyweight Champion boxer.

:* NWA / NBA World Heavyweight Championship ( 2 times )

:* Los Angeles World Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time )

:* World Heavyweight Championship ( original version ) ( 1 time )

:* Minneapolis World Heavyweight Championship ( 2 times )

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, Anatolij Evgen ' evič Karpov ; born May 23, 1951 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993.

This thrust the young Karpov into the role of World Champion without having faced the reigning champion.

* 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886 ; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand.

The computer Deep Blue was the first machine player to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.

Trina Gulliver, eight-time World Professional Darts Champion, currently lives in Cheddar.

As of April 2012, the Association Croquet World Champion is Reg Bamford of South Africa.

As of 2011, the Golf Croquet World Champion is Mark McInerney ( Ireland ) and the Women's Golf Croquet World Champion is Rachel Rowe ( England ).

* 1969 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster, current World Chess Champion

Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain.

In 1978, Women's World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman to receive the GM title, by a special decision of FIDE.

The Tsar reportedly awarded the title to the five finalists: Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank Marshall ( respectively, the World Champion, the next two World Champions, and two players who had lost World Championship matches to Lasker ).

Any World Champion is automatically awarded the GM title

Traditionally, chess has been a male-dominated activity, and women are often seen as weaker players ; thus advancing the idea of a Women's World Champion.

Trained in her early years by her sister Susan, who ultimately became Women's World Champion, Judit Polgár was a prodigy from an early age.

* 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV.

* Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD BBC / Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; TV series A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603 – 1776 BBC / Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; A History of Britain-The Complete Collection on DVD BBC 2002

Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of the World.

In 1956 As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, both produced by Procter & Gamble Productions, debuted as the first half-hour soap operas on CBS Television.

As the World Turns and The Edge of Night were the last to make the switch, in 1975.

It has been ranked among the best games of all time by several organizations including Edge, IGN, The Age and GameSpot, while Guinness World Records has named it as the top console game ever.

Michael Powell made The Edge of the World in 1937, a dramatisation based on the true story of the evacuation of the last 36 inhabitants of the remote island of St Kilda on 29 August 1930.

Forty years later, the documentary Return To The Edge Of The World was filmed, capturing a reunion of cast and crew of the film as they revisited the island in 1978.

" A Left Handed Commencement Address " is included in her nonfiction collection Dancing at the Edge of the World.

# " Edge of the World " ( Yvonne Elliman ) – 2: 30

# " Edge of the World ( End Title )" – 3: 27

# " Edge of the World " ( choral version ) – 2: 03

# " Edge of the World " ( Yvonne Elliman ) – 1: 51

* The Edge of the World ( 2009 )

Many influential feminist utopias of this sort were written in the 1970s ; the most often studied examples include Joanna Russ's The Female Man, Suzy McKee Charnas's Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time.

* Bergreen, Laurence Over the Edge of the World, Morrow, 2003, paperback, 480 pages

* The British ITV documentary Journey to the Edge of the World features Billy Connolly in the Canadian Arctic.

Post-apocalyptic societies feature in several Blake's 7 episodes including Duel, Deliverance, City at the Edge of the World and Terminal.

** Over The Edge Of The World

Return to the Edge of the World ( 1978 ) includes shots of director Michael Powell driving into the studio.

The Razor ’ s Edge tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life.

Manny gives chase and a year later tracks them to a coral mining plant on the Edge of the World.

Manny, along with Meche, Glottis and all the souls being held at the plant then escape from the Edge of the World.

As the World Turns and The Edge of Night aired live until 1975, the year The Edge of Night moved to ABC and As the World Turns expanded from a 30-minute broadcast to one hour.