Upon Byers ' retirement in 1964, The Fabulous Moolah, who won a junior heavyweight version of the NWA World Women's Championship ( the predecessor to the WWE Women's Championship ) in a tournament back in 1958, was recognized by most NWA promoters as champion by default.

** World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires.

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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.

Category: World heavyweight boxing champions

* Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney, for the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship

Category: World heavyweight boxing champions

* Duane Bobick, World Champion amateur heavyweight boxer ; contender for Pro World heavyweight Championship

Category: World heavyweight boxing champions

Category: World heavyweight boxing champions

Category: World heavyweight boxing champions

LaMotta moved up to light heavyweight after losing his World Middleweight title.

Then came two consecutive bouts against former World Heavyweight Champion and light heavyweight legend, Ezzard Charles, 33, who became the only man to ever last fifteen rounds against Marciano.

Category: World heavyweight boxing champions

He is a former Undisputed World Champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname " The Real Deal.

By 1946, Moore had moved to the light heavyweight division and he went 5-2-1 that year, beating contender Curtis Sheppard, but losing to future World Heavyweight Champion and Hall of Famer Ezzard Charles by a decision in ten, and drawing with old nemesis Chase.

After beating Johnson, heavyweight contenders Jimmy Slade, Bob Dunlap, and Clarence Henry and light heavyweight Clinton Bacon ( knocked out in four in a rematch ), Moore was finally given an opportunity at age thirty-nine to fight for the title of World Light Heavyweight Champion and future IBHOF honoree Joey Maxim.

1 heavyweight contender, and defended against Bobo Olson, the World Middleweight Champion and future Hall of Famer who was coming off a decision victory over Joey Maxim, by a knockout in three.

He then drew against future World Light Heavyweight Champion Willie Pastrano in a 10-round heavyweight contest.

World heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns ( boxer ) | Tommy Burns

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.

Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen ( 10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959 ) was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor.

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

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

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.

Soon she earned the nickname Chikita, after her favorite boxer, the former 2 time World flyweight champion Humberto " Chiquita " Gonzalez of Mexico.

Marvelous Marvin Hagler ( born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler in Newark, New Jersey, May 23, 1954 ) is a retired American professional boxer who was Undisputed World Middleweight Champion from 1980 to 1987.

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

Carlos Monzón ( August 7, 1942 – January 8, 1995 ) was an Argentinian professional boxer who held the Undisputed World Middleweight Championship for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times.

* Christy Martin, professional female boxer, was named the best woman boxer in the world by the World Boxing Council in 1996.

The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring ... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I.

* Sergio Mora ( born 1980 ), Mexican-American boxer and former World Boxing Council light middleweight champion

Joseph Louis Barrow ( May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981 ), better known as Joe Louis, was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949.

Among his opponents were Fireman Jim Flynn, the only boxer ever to beat Dempsey by a knockout when Dempsey lost to him in the first round ( although many boxing historians, including Monte Cox, believe the fight was a " fix "), and Gunboat Smith, formerly a highly ranked contender who had beaten both World Champion Jess Willard and Hall of Famer Sam Langford.

Rocky II is a 1979 American film that is the sequel to Rocky, a motion picture in which an unknown boxer had been given a chance to go fight the World Heavyweight Champion.

Giacobbe " Jake " LaMotta ( born July 10, 1922 ), nicknamed " The Bronx Bull " and " The Raging Bull ," is an Italian-American retired professional boxer and former World Middleweight Champion.

Henry Jr. was a boxer who not only was a member of the exclusive group of fighters that have won boxing championships in three or more different divisions ( at a time when there were only 8 universally recognized World Titles ), but also has the distinction of being the only boxer to hold three world championships at the same time.

Then, he tried to make history once again by becoming the first boxer to win world titles in four different categories in a rematch with Garcia, already the World Middleweight Champion, but the fight ended in a ten round draw, Armstrong's attempt to win a fourth division's world title being frustrated.

Rocky Marciano ( born Rocco Francis Marchegiano ; September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969 ) was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

His elder brother Jack, who was also in the World Cup-winning team, is a former defender for Leeds United and manager.

Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).

Torborg's successor, 72-year-old Jack McKeon, improbably led them to the National League's wild card berth in the playoffs ; they defeated the New York Yankees four games to two in the 2003 World Series.

Skipper Jack McKeon became the oldest manager ever to win a World Series title.

* Jack Higgins based his book The Eagle Has Landed on alleged research into a German abduction plot in the Second World War.

Rumors that he had bribed the board and concern that he would be likened to Jack Dempsey, who had received negative publicity for failure to serve in World War I, led Greenberg to be reexamined, and he was found fit to serve.

* The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean By Thomas B. Buell, Thomas E. Griess, John H. Bradley, Jack W. Dice

* " The File Sharing Movement " in Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 105 – 125.

After Smith's teammate Jack Clark hit a late-inning home run of his own in Game 6 to defeat the Dodgers, the Cardinals moved on to face the Kansas City Royals in the 1985 World Series.

Though Ashburn and Roberts were gone, younger pitchers Art Mahaffey, Chris Short, and rookie Ray Culp ; veterans Jim Bunning and screwballer Jack Baldschun ; and fan favorites Cookie Rojas, Johnny Callison, and NL Rookie of the Year Richie Allen brought the team within a hairsbreadth of the World Series in 1964 after strong showings in 1962 and 1963.

In the Well World series by Jack L. Chalker, the computer Obie had the ability to adjust the equations of the universe and any changes made could be retconned so that all records would adjust so that even very odd things could be made logical.

British Major Jack Churchill ( far right ) leads Commandos off a LCPL | Eureka Boat during a training exercise, sword in hand, in World War II.

Measures of their success include international record sales, a 2007 – 2008 reunion tour, merchandising, record-breaking achievements, iconic symbolism such as Halliwell's Union Jack dress, representing " Girl Power ", a box-office film, Spice World, and their internationally recognised nicknames.

The current Men's World Champion in this event is Australia's Jack Bobridge.

In the latter continent, there was talk of the Union Jack flying from " Cairo to Cape Town ", which only became a reality at the end of World War I.

According to Jack Warner in his autobiography, prior to the United States entering World War II, the head of Warner Bros. sales in Germany, Philip Kauffman, was murdered by the Nazis in Berlin in 1936.

Napoleon had his eye on conquering the New World, and sent his brother-in-law in command of an army to seize control of Haiti, but over 27, 000 of his troops perished of the " Yellow Jack ", including their commander.

It was adapted by Howard B. Kreitsek from the stories " The Veldt ", " The Long Rain ", and " The Last Night of the World ", and directed by Jack Smight.

Lombard's final film, " To Be or Not to Be " ( 1942 ), directed by Ernst Lubitsch and co-starring Jack Benny, a satire about Nazism and World War II, was in post-production at the time of her death.

* Famous students who dropped out: Charles Eames ( who was expelled for defending modernist architecture ); Tennessee Williams ( who left in protest of not winning the poetry prize ); Enterprise Rent-a-Car founder Jack C. Taylor ( who withdrew to fight in World War II ); actor Robert Guillaume ( who withdrew to study opera ); Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Dedman ( who left to become a newspaper reporter ); and IQ-record holder Marilyn vos Savant ( who says she withdrew because she was bored ).

The final baseball play that Jack Buck narrated for CBS television was Gene Larkin's game winning bloop single in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.

* Jack Newtown, a nickname of F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve