By spring 1982, Kaufman anointed himself as the Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion of the World.
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Calzaghe is desperate to emulate his hero Rocky Marciano, the heavyweight champion of the world between 1952 and 1956, arguably boxing's greatest unbeaten icon.
But the trophy itself has a long and proud history that dates to 1960 and offers the winner the right to call itself champion of the world.
Because right now, Barcelona isn't just champion of the world.
The boxer lost the 1988 Seoul Olympic super heavyweight final to Lennox Lewis, but in 1992 he became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world after beating Evander Holyfield.
"I had plans to be the heavyweight champion of the world in four or five years and it has not gone the way I wanted but ultimately I still believe I'm going to achieve that goal, " says Harrison.
Dahl's books are full of the grotesque, from Mrs Twit substituting worms for her husband's spaghetti, to child-eating giants in the BFG, and the hero of Danny the Champion of the World drugging pheasants so that they're easier to poach.
Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch a modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.
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Whether or not the Dominican Republic secures its place as champion of the 2013 World Baseball Classic, one thing is certain: The influx of MLB players from the Dominican Republic shows no signs of slowing down.
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Tuesday's winner will earn the distinction of world champion for the first time in the three-event history of the WBC.
The 800m world champion was the subject of a gender test by the International Association of Athletics Federations following her victory in Berlin at the world championships three years ago, but has since been cleared to compete.
When Camacho Sr. and a friend, Adrian Mojica Moreno, were shot to death in Puerto Rico in November while sitting in a parked car, the fight world mourned the loss of a four-time world champion but minus the shock that usually accompanies a 50-year-old's murder.
They would send a disastrous signal to the rest of the world: the champion of open markets is going it alone.
His teammate Cal Crutchlow of Britain continued his fine season with fifth, just ahead of former world champion Nicky Hayden of the United States on his Ducati.
Vettel, the world champion in each of the last two seasons, has moved into second place in the championship standings, ahead of Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen in third position.
As one of the foremost science and research organizations in the world the Smithsonian is a champion of many critical ecological frontiers.
And now they earn the distinction of world champion, too the first time in WBC history.
Japan grabbed their third judo gold medal of the Games in the absence of Iran's world champion Arash Miresmaeili who failed to make the weight after earlier threatening to boycott his contest against an Israeli opponent.
By the time he flew to New York City late in the week for his first public appearance, he was the same outspoken champion of freedom who won admiration around the world for daring to stand up to China's communist leadership.
Mr. Kasparov, the world chess champion and head of the Moscow region branch of the Democratic Party of Russia, is a contributing editor of the Journal.
Mrs Thatcher's three successive election victories so changed the nature of politics that even the Labour Party, traditionally the champion of the working classes, came to adopt a similar view of the world, competing for a tiny number of swing voters while reasoning that its traditional working-class base had nowhere else to go.
Campos - who has already signed Brazilian Bruno Senna, the nephew of the late triple world champion Ayrton - would not confirm whether the team would make it to the first race.
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In a major public address this evening, Garry Kasparov -- the World Chess Champion and champion of democracy in the former Soviet Union -- expressed grave concerns about the anti-democratic effects of continued U.S. and Western support for Mikhail Gorbachev and Moscow center.
Sebastian Vettel will start third on the grid after young Lotus driver Romain Grosjean, 26, snatched second place from the reigning world champion in the final seconds of the day's racing.
Rosberg fills one of the two slots in the team caused by the departures of world champion Jenson Button and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello.
With the combined efforts of Webber and double world champion Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull currently hold an imperious lead at the top of the constructors' championship, 64 points ahead of Ferrari, who have failed to finish top since 2008.
Loeb had no need to push himself on the final day and started with a pair of second-place finishes behind the Subaru of 2003 world champion Petter Solberg.
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Mo Farah is strongly fancied in the 10, 000m, with another medal shot in the 5, 000m should he be able to get the longer race out of his legs, while world triple jump champion Phillips Idowu could benefit from the recent injury problems of French youngster Teddy Tamgho.
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