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The WBC Eternal Championship is an honorary title awarded to retired boxers that have never lost the WBC world title in the ring while having a solid number of successful title defenses. Jiselle Salandy was awarded the Eternal title as she defended the WBC female super welterweight title five times before her death on 4 January 2009.
He was also designated by the WBC as Champion Emeritus. [57] 46 Jermell Charlo (def. John Jackson) 21 May 2016 – 22 Dec 2018 3 47 Tony Harrison: 22 Dec 2018 – 21 Dec 2019 0 48 Jermell Charlo (2) 21 Dec 2019 – 26 January 2024 3 Charlo is designated by the WBC as champion in recess. [58] 49 Sebastian Fundora (def. Tim Tszyu) 30 Mar 2024 ...
The first round of the tournament drew 1,010,999 fans across all four venues, nearly double the previous record for the WBC. [16] This included 361,976 fans in Tokyo for Pool B and 295,850 fans in Miami for Pool D. Total attendance for the tournament across all rounds was 1,306,414, the highest in WBC history. [17]
The WBA, WBO and IBF champion defeated WBC champion Tyson Fury on Saturday by split decision (115-112, 113-114, 114-113) to become the first undisputed heavyweight champion since 2000. The fight ...
The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, [1] is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), [a] the sport's global governing body, and organized in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).
The starting pitchers for the championship game were Shōta Imanaga for Japan and Merrill Kelly for the United States. [16] Trea Turner hit a solo home run for the United States off of Imanaga in the top of the second inning. Turner tied Lee Seung-yuop (South Korea) in the 2006 tournament for the most home-runs in a single WBC tournament.
Pool A was a round-robin tournament. Prior to the start of the tournament, ESPN considered Team Israel, ranked 41st in the world, to be the biggest underdog in the tournament, referring to them as the "Jamaican bobsled team of the WBC". [6] [7] Team Israel (3–0) and Team Netherlands (2–1) qualified for the second round, in Japan. [8]
Four qualification brackets were held in late 2012 and respectively won by Canada, Taiwan, Spain, and Brazil, who joined the WBC as the final four teams (the latter two making their Classic debuts). As in the 2006 tournament, the first round had a round-robin format, which led to South Korea being eliminated on a run difference tiebreaker ...