The system was introduced after last year's Olympics when America's Paul Hamm was awarded the all-round title after South Korea's Yang Tae-young was incorrectly docked a 10th of a point from his parallel bars routine.
Briggs won the WBO title with a 12th-round knockout of Sergei Liakhovich in November 2006 but lost the title in his first defence against Sultan Ibragimov eight months later.
Lemerre coached France at the 2002 World Cup where they were knocked out in the first round in defence of their title and he was also at the finals in Germany in 2006 in charge of Tunisia.
Rahman, who slipped to 45 wins, seven defeats and two draws, caused one of the biggest upsets in boxing history when he knocked out Lennox Lewis in the fifth round of their world heavyweight title clash in South Africa in 2001.
The Bulls won 3-0 in the first round in 1998 during their last title run.
Barcelona can win what would be its 22nd league title in the next round against Real Betis.
Keith Thurman won the WBO intercontinental welterweight title with a 12 round, unanimous decision over Jan Zaveck.
He led the Masters going into the final round but was pipped to the title by Phil Mickelson, who is two under at St Andrews.
The world No. 7, last year's runner-up to Amelie Mauresmo, has a first-round bye and will begin her title bid against Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic or fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who meet on Tuesday.
"That's good, but I mean, again, I'm not in this for Coach of the Year, I'm in to try to see if we can get this team to the championship round to try to win a title, " Woodson said.
Federer, who said before the start of the tournament that he was "excited" by the return of Nadal to top flight action, was playing Ivan Dodig of Croatia in a later third round match as he defends his title.
On the same bill, Mexico's Rafael Marquez retained his IBF bantamweight title with a third-round knockout of Heriberto Ruiz.
On the undercard, champion Jorge Arce retained the WBC light flyweight title with a third-round technical knockout of Mexican compatriot Augustin Luna.
Also on Saturday's bill at the National Stadium, Jim Rock claimed the vacant Irish middleweight title with a seventh-round stoppage of Slough-based Kevin Phelan.
Thaxton won the title with a third-round knockout of Juan-Carlos Diaz Melero at the Showground in October and Hennessy believes that his punching power would stand up to the world's best.
Maccarinelli was fighting on the same bill as compatriot Nathan Cleverly, who closed in on a world title shot after defending his European light-heavyweight title with a 10th-round stoppage of Karo Murat.
Del Potro beat Federer in last month's Basel final but has a losing 13-3 record against him despite notable victories in the 2009 U.S. Open title match and in the round-robin stage of that year's ATP finals.
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Williams had been a favorite to win the French Open singles title before a shocking first-round upset Tuesday.
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Golovin, who beat home favourite Venus Williams in the previous round, is trying to win her first title.
Higginson went from the first qualifying round to within a frame of winning the title 12 months ago before losing 9-8 to Robertson.
Mayweather fought as if he had never left the ring, coming back from a year's absence Saturday night to win a unanimous 12-round decision over Robert Guerrero in their welterweight title fight.
Durham won their first County Championship title last September after a thrilling final round of matches.
Hatton suffered a brutal second-round defeat in his IBO light-welterweight world title bout against Manny Pacquiao in May.
Real Madrid had already secured a 32nd Spanish title ahead of Sunday's final round of fixtures, but Jose Mourinho's team thrashed Real Mallorca 4-1 to finish the season on 100 points, a La Liga record.
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After winning all their group games and helping to eliminate title-holders Brazil in the first round, newcomers Portugal came from 3-0 down to beat North Korea 5-3 in a dramatic quarter-final, thanks to four goals from Eusebio.
Music and ceili dance sessions, horse trading, burger and chip-eating and fireworks ensue and the festival comes to a close when a local 12-year old schoolgirl gets crowned Queen Puck, a title to treasure till August comes 'round again.
Ivanovic has not been past the fourth round of the clay-court event since winning the title four years ago.
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