The heavyweight unification series, also known as the Heavyweight World Series, was a sequence of professional boxing matches held in 1986 and 1987 to...
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Undisputed championship (boxing) (redirect from Title unification)
increased. After some negotiations, the heavyweight title was unified in the heavyweight unification series, a series of coordinated bouts in 1986 and 1987...
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Mike Tyson vs. James Smith (category World Boxing Association heavyweight championship matches)
contested on March 7, 1987 for the WBA and WBC heavyweight championships, as part of the heavyweight unification series. Mike Tyson was coming off a dominating...
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Mike Tyson James Smith Retained WBC heavyweight title; Won WBA heavyweight title; Heavyweight unification series June 11, 2009 Georges St-Pierre Thiago...
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Michael Spinks vs. Steffen Tangstad (category International Boxing Federation heavyweight championship matches)
and lineal heavyweight titles. Michael Spinks, in his first fight in the Don King and Butch Lewis-promoted heavyweight unification series, made the first...
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president Minoru Arakawa attended a boxing match during the Heavyweight unification series that featured its future champion Mike Tyson. Arakawa became...
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Mike Tyson (category World heavyweight boxing champions)
was the favorite to win the heavyweight unification series, a tournament designed to establish an undisputed heavyweight champion. Tyson defended his...
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Michael Spinks (category World heavyweight boxing champions)
In 1986, Spinks and Holmes fought a rematch as part of the heavyweight unification series, and had nearly the same result, this time Spinks winning by...
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James Smith (boxer) (category World heavyweight boxing champions)
place in the heavyweight unification series, an ongoing competition being conducted by HBO and King to crown an undisputed world heavyweight champion for...
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Tim Witherspoon (category World heavyweight boxing champions)
up-and-coming English heavyweight and future world champion Frank Bruno at Wembley Stadium, as part of the heavyweight unification series. In the eleventh...
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Tony Tucker (category Heavyweight boxers)
decision. Home Box Office and Don King Productions orchestrated a heavyweight unification series for 1987, planning among its bouts a match between Tucker and...
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Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship was created with the unification of the NWA International Heavyweight Championship, the PWF World Heavyweight Championship...
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Michael Spinks vs. Gerry Cooney (category Heavyweight championship matches)
forces with Don King to create the heavyweight unification series after which Spinks was entered into the series with a rematch against Holmes being...
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Tony Tubbs vs. Tim Witherspoon (category World Boxing Association heavyweight championship matches)
heavyweight unification series, which aimed to crown a new undisputed champion, that King had announced plans for only 10 days prior. The unification...
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Survivor Series pay-per-view, the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship was abandoned in favor of the WCW Cruiserweight Championship (a unification match at...
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Michael Spinks vs. Larry Holmes II (category International Boxing Federation heavyweight championship matches)
completed and the Heavyweight unification series was set to began in March with Pinklon Thomas vs. Trevor Berbick. Spinks' first bout in this series would be a...
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World championships in WWE (redirect from SmackDown Heavyweight Champion)
Championship. The WWE World Heavyweight Championship was the result of a unification of the WWE Championship and the original World Heavyweight Championship in December...
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Heavyweight champions. Witherspoon-Tubbs begins Don King's heavyweight unification series that aims to have one universally recognized world champion...
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Anatoly Malykhin (category Heavyweight mixed martial artists)
Malykhin was scheduled to Arjan Bhullar for the ONE Heavyweight World Championship unification bout on September 29, 2022, at ONE 161. However, Bhullar...
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deal to host several fights in the heavyweight unification series, a tournament to establish an undisputed heavyweight champion. A 14,600-seat outdoor arena...
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Championship unification match, Edge defeated Test in an WWE Intercontinental Championship and WCW United States Heavyweight Championship unification match and...
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championship was established after the unification of All Japan's then-flagship title, the PWF World Heavyweight Championship, with the NWA United National...
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WWE Championship (redirect from WWF World Heavyweight Title)
history of WWE's era of unification. WWE.com (September 12, 2012). Retrieved on September 5, 2013. "WWWF/WWF/WWE World Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-titles...
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The 2002 to 2013 version of the World Heavyweight Championship was a men's professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by...
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champions always fared well in unification bouts with WBA, WBC, and IBF champions. For example, WBO light heavyweight champion Michalczewski unified his...
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Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson (category World Boxing Council heavyweight championship matches)
gone 12–0 in the year of 1986 alone and officially qualified for the unification series with a second-round knockout victory over Alfonso Ratliff in September...
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Raw-exclusive World Heavyweight Championship. The unification match took place at No Mercy the following month and saw then-World Heavyweight Champion Triple...
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Big Gold Belt (redirect from World Heavyweight Championship (professional wrestling championship belt))
Charles Crumrine and commissioned by Jim Crockett Promotions for NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair, the championship belt has three large gold plates...
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Oleksandr Usyk (category Light-heavyweight boxers)
in two weight classes, at cruiserweight and heavyweight, and reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from May to June 2024. He has also held...
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Raw-exclusive World Heavyweight Championship. The unification match took place at No Mercy the following month and saw then-World Heavyweight Champion Triple...
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