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As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
Naoya Inoue (井上 尚弥, Inoue Naoya, born 10 April 1993) is a Japanese professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, and is one of only three male boxers in history (along with Terence Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk) to become the undisputed champion in two weight classes in the "four-belt era". [3][4 ...
In 1876, the first women's boxing match was held in the United States. In this match Nell Saunders defeated Rose Harland. Her prize was a silver butter dish. [129] Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games as a demonstration sport in 1904, in St. Louis.
The fight was the first women's boxing match to headline Madison Square Garden, and was described as the 'biggest women's fight of all time' in the build up. [85] Despite being badly hurt in the fifth round, Taylor rallied to retain her titles with a split decision victory (94–96, 97–93, and 96–93). [ 86 ]
With a TV deal and expansion in Australia, Asia, Europe, [18] [19] [20] and new markets within the United States, the UFC has achieved greater mainstream media coverage. It earned US$609 million in 2015, [ 21 ] and its next domestic media rights agreement with ESPN was valued at $1.5 billion over a five-year term.
Alex Pereira. Alex Sandro Silva Pereira[1] (born 7 July 1987) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and former kickboxer. He currently competes in the Light Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and a former UFC Middleweight Champion.
Eric David Scott Esch (born August 3, 1966), [5] is an American television personality and retired professional boxer, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and professional wrestler better known by his nickname " Butterbean ". A competitor in the heavyweight and super heavyweight divisions, he is an overall four time world champion across the four ...
José Aldo da Silva Oliveira Júnior (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒoˈzɛ ˈawdu]; born 9 September 1986), known as José Aldo, is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and professional boxer [7] who currently competes in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) after previously competing at Featherweight, and was the fourth and final WEC Featherweight ...