But the 31-year-old Sosnowski will now fight for Klitschko's WBC heavyweight belt in Gelsenkirchen on 29 May.
Mayweather, who took De la Hoya's WBC light middleweight crown, won 116-112, 115-113, 113-115 on the scorecards.
Khan certainly won't be facing the winner of next week's WBC bout between Manny Pacquiao and David Diaz.
It was the largest share for any of Japan's WBC games this year.
That discomfort eventually grew into actual pain, forcing Team USA to scratch Wright from the lineup of Thursday's WBC game against the Dominican Republic.
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.
The bout is the first act of a potentially huge night for British boxing, with Danny Williams fighting for Vitali Klitschko's WBC heavyweight crown in Las Vegas later today.
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.
Teixeira was hurt swinging a bat Tuesday in an indoor cage during pregame warmups with the U.S. WBC team.
Those Mexican warriors Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales could rumble for a fourth time after Barrera's stunning WBC super featherweight win in November.
There's no WBC hangover for the four-time All-Star shortstop.
England's Howard Eastman is the WBC's mandatory challenger and "Tito" may have to smash through light middleweight king Winky Wright to get to "The Executioner".
Wladimir's older brother Vitali, the WBC champion, is also on Haye's radar as he targets holding all four belts.
Whether Wright's presence in the WBC exacerbated the injury, nobody will ever know with complete certainty.
Froch moved closer to a domestic super-fight with Joe Calzaghe when he was installed as the WBC's third-ranked super middleweight.
The Danish-based boxer was previously rated in the WBC's top-10 middleweights and is the current IBF international super middleweight champion.
They were still fuming four years after the Netherlands beat them twice in the 2009 WBC's first round for a stunning early exit.
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.
Stanton and Cishek played for the U.S., eliminated from the WBC on Friday night.
The ex-WBC title holder's manager Don King is talking with Maccarinelli's promoter Frank Warren about the deal.
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.
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.
The laid-back atmosphere at spring training doesn't compare to the intensity level of the WBC games where there's so much pride at stake playing for your country.
The fight between Klitschko and 27-year-old Chisora could now open up the possibility of fellow Londoner Haye taking on the Ukrainian's brother Vitali Klitschko, who is the WBC champion, in April or May.
Welshman Calzaghe is the current WBC super-middleweight champion with Nottingham's Froch the number one contender.
And tough Korean Injin Chi, the WBC title holder, is being tailed by Scotland's Scott Harrison, a proposition not for the faint-hearted.
Haye's manager, Adam Booth, held talks earlier this year with Vitali (WBC) and Wladimir (WBO and IBF) about a possible unification fight but these negotiations came to nothing.
Haye's manager Frank Maloney said he would now begin negotiations with Frenchman Mormeck, who holds the WBC cruiserweight crown, with a view to lining up a fight before September.
But Ruddock's reputation counted for nothing, as Lewis disposed of him in two rounds, and was subsequently awarded the WBC version of the heavyweight title.
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