defending world

Rosario moved up a weight class to the junior welterweight division, and then defeated defending world champion Loreto Garza in three rounds in Sacramento's Arco Arena to become a world champion for the 4th time.

Fought on Home Box Office, Camacho beat the Mexican defending world champion, José Luis Ramírez in Las Vegas to win the WBC world Lightweight championship.

According to many experts and the Ring Magazine book The Ring: Boxing In The 20th Century, Gómez and Zárate had the highest knockout win percentage of any two boxers paired inside a ring in history: When Gómez and Zarate met on October 28, also at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, the challenger and still world Bantamweight champion Zarate was 55-0 with 54 knockouts, while defending world Super Bantamweight champion Gómez was 21-0-1 with 21 knockouts.

Basilio had two non title bouts, including a ten round decision win over Gil Turner, before he and DeMarco met again, this time with Basilio as the defending world champion.

From that moment, and until his retirement in 1961, he fought only sporadically, but 3 of his last fights were attempts to recover the world's Middleweight title, losing twice to Gene Fullmer ; by a knockout in 14 at San Francisco ; and by a knockout in 12, in Fullmer's home state of Utah ( in Salt Lake City ), and then also later, when he lost a 10 round decision to defending world champion Paul Pender.

Then, on July 15, his dream of becoming Cuba's first world boxing champion finally came true, as he knocked out the defending world Junior Lightweight champion Benny Bass in seven rounds to take the world title.

He became the World's Featherweight Champion by outpointing the defending world champ Chalky Wright over the 15 round distance.

Zapata went to Japan in March 1980, and on the 24th day of that month he beat defending world champion Shigeo Nakajima to become world Jr. Flyweight champion.

The Phillies went on to face the defending world champion Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series.

* December 14-In the first world title fight in history between two Japanese fighters, Hiroshi Kobayashi, with only 11 knockout wins in fifty seven previous bouts, drops defending world Jr. Lightweight champion Yoshiaki Numata four times before knocking him out in twelve rounds to win the world title, Tokyo.

* April 18-Cuban-Mexican José Nápoles becomes the world Welterweight champion, knocking out defending world champion Curtis Cokes in thirteen rounds, Inglewood.

Kankkunen placed third in the drivers ' world championship, between his teammates Didier Auriol and the defending world champion Biasion.

In his home rally in Finland, he lost the win to the defending world champion, Mitsubishi's Tommi Mäkinen, by only seven seconds.

* June 14-Max Baer drops defending world Heavyweight champion Primo Carnera eleven times en route to an eleventh round knockout, winning the world Heavyweight title, at New York.

* October 29-Henry Armstrong wins his second simultaneous title, the world Featherweight title ( to go along with the world Lightweight championship as recognized by California and Mexico ), knocking out defending world champion Petey Sarron in six rounds, at New York.

The Austrians also denied the defending world champion a trip to the Third Place match, beating them 3 – 2 by two goals of Hans Krankl, plus an own goal.

O ' Sullivan had even greater disappointment in the 5000 m where she was the defending world champion, finishing only 7th in her heat and failing to qualify for the final.

The semi-finals produced two tight matches, in which England overcame its Scottish rival 6-9 at Murrayfield Stadium and Australia defeated the defending world champion New Zealand 16-6 at Lansdowne Road.

Due to safety concerns with the 4. 9 mile circuit, including the bumpy track surface and the inadequate barriers, deep ditches, and embankments, the last Formula One race held on the original Interlagos was in 1980, the race was nearly cancelled after protests by many Formula One drivers including defending world champion Jody Scheckter.

The race was won by defending world champion, Niki Lauda, driving a Ferrari 312T.

Damon Hill, as defending world champion, had experienced a miserable year in the uncompetitive Arrows-Yamaha, but the team experienced a spike in performance levels at Hungary, mainly due to their Bridgestone tyres.

Numerous drivers, including defending world champion Michael Schumacher, spun off the track at this point and nearly collided with the stalled Jaguar of Antônio Pizzonia ( who himself made slight contact with the stalled Williams of Juan Pablo Montoya ) and a nearby crane.

Coached by New Zealander Peter Thorburn, the Eagles started off with tough match against the defending world champions England, losing 28 – 10.

He gave the Braves their first win of the season, a 7 – 5 victory over the defending world champion Reds.

Dutra beat defending world champion Helga Risoy that night by a decision in ten rounds to win the world title.