Yet this is unlikely to happen unless a critical mass of nations is prepared to form a rival world body.
Hart was one of those who did not speak, but in 1997 he accepted a job with the rival World Championship Wrestling organization, and McMahon asked him to lose his title to Shawn Michaels.
Since then Mr Kasparov has been stripped of his title by FIDE for bucking its authority and forming his own federation, the PCA, which has run a rival world championship cycle.
A small town news reporter and an animal-loving volunteer, Drew Barrymore, are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle".
The competition is getting into the ring with "I'm Next," a memoir by Bill Goldberg, star of Ted Turner's rival World Championship Wrestling, which will be published by Crown, a unit of Bertelsmann's Random House Inc. in November.
· Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, businessman, born December 17 1937; died December 26 2005 Mike Selvey writes: Kerry Packer's rival World Series Cricket circus was a ruthless move which was to leave indelible marks on the game, both good and bad.
In 1995, Mr Kasparov defended the PCA world championship title against Vishwanathan Ananda, an Indian grandmaster, while Anatoly Karpov defended the FIDE title he was awarded after Mr Kasparov's defection against Gata Kamsky, a Russian turned American.Then Mr Ilyuzhinov stepped in to re-unite the chess world by merging the rival world championship cycles into one big knock-out event.
They exploited their strategic geography during the Ottoman Empire's centuries-long decline, by playing off rival world powers.
Now hes racing the clock, and the rival World Trade Center rising downtown, to secure tenants and push ahead with the construction of New Yorks newest neighborhood.
After acquiring its top rival, World Championship Wrestling, the federation can build on its popularity with male teens and on its extensive licensing opportunities.
