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.
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.
Welshman Calzaghe is the current WBC super-middleweight champion with Nottingham's Froch the number one contender.
Froch defends his WBC super-middleweight crown and the fight is also part of the Super Six tournament.
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Eight months later, Jones challenged Antonio Tarver for his WBC light-heavyweight belt and nicked a contentious majority decision.
Calzaghe, who has vacated his WBC super-middleweight title to fight Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden, cited Audley Harrison as an example of Olympic gold not necessarily equating to success in the professional arena.
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.
Calzaghe, unbeaten in 45 bouts, was king of the super-middleweight division - holding the WBC, WBA and WBO titles - but The Ring light-heavyweight crown he won by beating Hopkins was to be on the line against four-weight world champion Jones.
The Danish-based boxer was previously rated in the WBC's top-10 middleweights and is the current IBF international super middleweight champion.
The ex-WBC title holder's manager Don King is talking with Maccarinelli's promoter Frank Warren about the deal.
Froch moved closer to a domestic super-fight with Joe Calzaghe when he was installed as the WBC's third-ranked super middleweight.
Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run double in the first inning that held up, and the Dominicans capped a dominant, unbeaten run through the WBC with a 3-0 win against Puerto Rico for the championship Tuesday night.
Late lineup addition Moises Sierra hit a tying RBI double in the fifth, Jose Reyes added a go-ahead single two batters later and the spirited Dominicans reached the WBC championship game with a 4-1 win against the Netherlands on Monday night.
However Khan, ranked number two with the WBO and five by the WBC, said the 25-year-old would provide a real test.
There's no WBC hangover for the four-time All-Star shortstop.
In four WBC games, Wright went 7-for-16 (.438) with a pair of doubles and a grand slam.
Haye lost his WBA title in July to Wladimir, who also holds the WBO, IBF and IBO belts -- while Vitali is WBC champion.
Mayweather, who took De la Hoya's WBC light middleweight crown, won 116-112, 115-113, 113-115 on the scorecards.
Tuesday's winner will earn the distinction of world champion for the first time in the three-event history of the WBC.
On the undercard, champion Jorge Arce retained the WBC light flyweight title with a third-round technical knockout of Mexican compatriot Augustin Luna.
Unlike other international events such as the Olympics and the World Cup, which require athletes to be citizens of the countries they represent, the WBC makes some notable exceptions for non-citizens.
By 1980 Merthyr-legend Owen had won the British, Commonwealth and European bantamweight titles, before the painfully shy, hugely popular 24-year-old headed to Los Angeles' 10, 000-seat Olympic Auditorium to face the formidable WBC world champion Pintor.
The 33-year-old was fighting Vitali Klitschko for the WBC world title in Las Vegas just two years ago, but after successive failures against Skelton and Harrison he will know that this could be a last shot at the big time.
But the 31-year-old Sosnowski will now fight for Klitschko's WBC heavyweight belt in Gelsenkirchen on 29 May.
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.
Cano, a four-time All-Star who returned to camp Thursday, was MVP of the WBC after hitting .469 with two homers and six RBIs.
He stopped Vincenzo Cantatore in Italy in 2002 to claim the WBC title, holding it until he suffered his first professional defeat to Jean-Marc Mormeck two years later.
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