There was disappointment for Kevin Mitchell, however, when he was stopped in the 10th round of his WBC lightweight clash with Jorge Linares.
He led his country to another title in the 2009 WBC.
The reigning WBC world heavyweight champion's grouping, UDAR, which means both "punch" and "Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform", is level-pegging with the United Opposition forces gathered around Yulia Tymoshenko's Fatherland party, on around 15%.
Over the two years that it ran, it featured eight fights in which a world championship belt was at stake, including two that gave Mr Ward the World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Council (WBC) titles.
On June 20 , 1975 Olivares knocked out American Bobby Chacon in the second round to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight title.
Tarver gave Jones a surprisingly difficult fight, though Jones managed to win by a majority decision, capturing Tarver's World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight belt.
In November 2007 Calzaghe became the undisputed world champion when he won a decision over Danish boxer Mikkel Kessler, adding Kessler's World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Association (WBA) titles to his own WBO and IBF championships.
In November 1979 Leonard defeated the reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion, Wilfred Benítez, only to lose the title in June 1980 in a famous match against Roberto Durán.
He won his first major title on December 4 , 1998 knocking out Thailand's Chatchai Sasakul to capture the World Boxing Council (WBC) flyweight title.
On November 22 , 1986 he became the youngest heavyweight champion in history, with a second-round knockout of Trevor Berbick, to claim the crown of the World Boxing Council (WBC).
Meantime there is a more immediate contest against Chisora in Munich's Olympiahalle next weekend – his 10th defence of heavyweight boxing's most prestigious title, the WBC belt (brother Wlad now holds the four others after relieving David Haye's toe-hold on the WBA version).
