The ceremonial faceoff saw former world boxing champions Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute approach center ice from opposite directions.
He made history in 1984 when he beat Wilfredo Gomez to be crowned the World Boxing Council Featherweight champion.
Herbie Hide held the World Boxing Organisation version of the heavyweight title twice, including a two-year reign from 1997 to 1999.
The bouts were part of a three-day boxing festival in Cardiff that culminates on Sunday with the World Boxing Confederation's star-studded Night of Champions.
Victory over Taylor would not only provide Froch with the biggest scalp of his career, it will also confirm his arrival as a star of world boxing.
But the reign was short-lived, as Bowe dumped the World Boxing Council belt in a dustbin in protest at having to fight Lewis again to keep it.
Pacquiao, 33, has a 54-3 win-loss record with two draws and plans to pit his World Boxing Organization welterweight crown against undefeated American Timothy Bradley in Las Vegas on June 9.
Ali - who started boxing professionally in 1999 and won her first world boxing title in 2002 - was to trade blows with O'Neil, a little-known Guyanese boxer, in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
Cotto, who was defending his World Boxing Association super-welterweight title, stalked Mayweather most of the night, often keeping his undefeated rival on the ropes and throwing right and left hooks to Mayweather's body.
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Stylish southpaw Olusegun, ranked number six by the World Boxing Council, landed a solid left to send Haywood to the canvas and referee John Keane rightly stopped the contest, stretching the champion's record to 26-0 with 13 knockouts.
May has been a month of goodbyes in Australia - Claude Choules, the last living link to combat in World War I and the oldest Australian, the actor Bill Hunter, the Aboriginal world boxing champion Lionel Rose, the spin bowler and coach Terry Jenner.
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The BBBC described it as a "sad day" for the world of boxing.
Bell has been training with Barrington Patterson, who once fought current world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, to improve his fitness.
World heavyweight boxing champ Wladimir Klitschko's facial expression was one of disbelief.
In a statement, Mr Maloney said Sutherland's death was very sad and unexpected and a tragedy for Ireland and the world of boxing.
The victory leaves all the recognized versions of the world heavyweight boxing title with the Klitschko brothers, with Vitali holding the prestigious WBC version.
Cardiff has recently hosted a Rugby World Cup final, FA Cup finals, world championship boxing and rallying, Grand Prix speedway and Ashes Test cricket.
Lennox Lewis, Britain's world heavyweight boxing champion, once fought for Canada.
And perhaps surprisingly, many people within the boxing world have also advised him to complete his studies.
The Jordan Brand would not be a new addition to the boxing world.
The latest, launched on September 3rd, features Katarina Witt, East Germany's former Olympic ice-skating champion and Henry Maske, a boxing world champion.
The boxing world still has exciting stories to follow, among them a potential Marquez-Pacquiao 5 or even a showdown between Marquez and Mayweather.
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The Newbridge bruiser, trained by Enzo Calzaghe, shocked the boxing world last July when he comprehensively demolished classy world champion Souleymane M'baye in Cardiff.
As Britain's only boxing world champion, he deserves nothing less.
Former boxing world champion Eamon Loughran, from Ballymena, County Antrim, has described how he prayed as he waited to find out if his wife was safe after the explosions.
He visits a Russian farm to look at the country's ambitions to be an agricultural superpower, checks out the Star City astronaut training center, meets with seven-foot boxing world champion-turned-movie star Nikolai Valuev and talks along the way with entrepreneurs and environmentalists working to make the city of Sochi home to green Olympics in 2014.
Like his most famous client, Roach, too, is a boxing-world celebrity.
He was the Navy's middleweight boxing champion during World War II and went on to star on the University of Pittsburgh's football team.
For Calzaghe it is not just about beating Jones at the world's most iconic boxing venue - it's about defining how history will remember him.
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