The Danish-based boxer was previously rated in the WBC's top-10 middleweights and is the current IBF international super middleweight champion.
With the airspace having been closed, a marathon trek started with a train journey from Nottingham to London, followed by a faster, sleeker train from London to Brussels and then the longest road trip of my life to the destination for Saturday's WBC super-middleweight title defence against Mikkel Kessler.
Britain's WBA heavyweight champion David Haye hopes to take on Wladimir Klitschko in July before meeting his brother Vitali - the WBC champion - in the Londoner's final fight before retiring ahead of turning 31 in October.
Froch moved closer to a domestic super-fight with Joe Calzaghe when he was installed as the WBC's third-ranked super middleweight.
He and his brother Vitali -- who holds the heavyweight division's other title, the WBC belt -- have dominated the elite class for the last five years.
The ex-WBC title holder's manager Don King is talking with Maccarinelli's promoter Frank Warren about the deal.
There's no WBC hangover for the four-time All-Star shortstop.
Mayweather, who took De la Hoya's WBC light middleweight crown, won 116-112, 115-113, 113-115 on the scorecards.
Welshman Calzaghe is the current WBC super-middleweight champion with Nottingham's Froch the number one contender.
But the 31-year-old Sosnowski will now fight for Klitschko's WBC heavyweight belt in Gelsenkirchen on 29 May.
Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 knockouts) who will vie for Mayweather's WBC welterweight crown (147 pounds), pummeled the speedy and explosive Andre Berto in his last outing.
It was Pavlik's second successful defence of his WBC and WBO belts, which he won with a technical knock-out of Jermain Taylor in September 2007.
Granderson, a member of the U.S. team in the 2009 WBC, doesn't think it has much of a carry-over effect on players during the regular season.
Tuesday's winner will earn the distinction of world champion for the first time in the three-event history of the WBC.
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