In 2008, Chad Dawson defeated Antonio Tarver and won a title from a non-profit organization that awards what?
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Chad Dawson Chad Dawson (born July 13, 1982) is an American professional boxer. He is a three-time former light heavyweight world champion, and was one of the most highly regarded boxers in that division from 2006 to 2013. Dawson rose to prominence on the world stage in 2007, when he defeated Tomasz Adamek to win the WBC light heavyweight title. After vacating that title, he defeated Antonio Tarver in 2008 to win the IBF and IBO titles. Dawson's first career loss was to Jean Pascal in 2010, after which he would win the WBC title for a second time, as well as the "Ring" magazine and lineal titles, by defeating Bernard Hopkins in 2012. In the same year, "The Ring" ranked Dawson as the world's tenth best active boxer, pound for pound.
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International Boxing Organization The International Boxing Organization (IBO) is a non-profit organization that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and regional championships.
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TORC: The Off-Road Championship TORC: The Off-Road Championship (TORC) is an American national short course off-road racing series. It tours throughout the United States featuring professional four and two-wheel-drive Trophy Trucks along with a Pro Light class. TORC was founded by off-road racing driver Ricky Johnson in 2009. It was known as the Traxxas TORC Series, owing to title sponsor Traxxas, from 2009–2013. It was purchased by The Armory in August 2013. It has been sanctioned and officiated by the United States Auto Club (USAC) since its inception.
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Victory Bowl The Victory Bowl is the championship football game between schools that sponsor football and are members of the National Christian College Athletic Association and did not qualify for either the NCAA or NAIA playoffs. It is one of the few post-season bowl games for smaller schools. Because the NCCAA is not exclusive, it is possible that schools from the NAIA and the NCAA may meet each other in this game, as with the 2008 game.
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Jermain Taylor Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He remains the most recent undisputed middleweight champion, having won the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, "Ring" magazine, and lineal titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins, and in doing so ending Hopkins' twelve-year reign as middleweight champion. This made Taylor the first boxer in history to claim each title from all four major boxing sanctioning organizations in a single fight (Hopkins had won his world titles separately between 1995 to 2004). He has also held the IBF middleweight title twice.
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World Association of Kickboxing Organizations The World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (W.A.K.O or WAKO) is an international organization of kickboxing. The governing body of amateur kickboxing certified by WAKO is created to develop support and govern at an amateur level In addition to holding world championship events, WAKO sanctions the champions of kickboxing.
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National Collegiate Boxing Association The National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, autonomous organization whose goal is to provide a safe, positive experience for student athletes pursuing the sport of boxing. The association falls under the auspices of USA Boxing. After 1960, the NCAA no longer sanctioned boxing.
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Indian Professional Boxing Association The Indian Professional Boxing Association (Hindi: भारतीय पेशेवर मुक्केबाजी संघ ) is the National Governing Body for Professional Boxing in India, which sanctions professional boxing matches and awards national and subordinate championship titles. IPBA is a member organization of the World Boxing Association (WBA), the World Boxing Organization (WBO), the International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the Pan Asian Boxing Association (PABA). It is headquartered in New Delhi, India.
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International Boxing Federation The International Boxing Federation (IBF) is one of four major organizations recognized by the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Organization (WBO).
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2008 TNA World X Cup Tournament The 2008 TNA World X Cup Tournament was a professional wrestling X Cup Tournament produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It was the third World X Cup Tournament and the last held as of 2017. The competition began on June 10, 2008 and concluded on July 13, 2008 at TNA's Victory Road pay-per-view (PPV) event.
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Marc Mero Marc Mero (born July 9, 1960) is an American retired amateur boxer and professional wrestler, as well as a motivational speaker. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under his real name and with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Johnny B. Badd. Today, Marc Mero contributes much of his time to the nonprofit organization he founded in 2007, Champion of Choices.
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Maverick Movie Awards The Maverick Movie Awards annually honors films and screenplays. They were founded as the New Haven Underground Film Festival in 2004, and became known as "Maverick Movie Awards" in 2008. The awards are given out by a panel of judges working in the film industry. Its winners include both big-budget studio films as well as low budget independent films.
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National College Football Awards Association The National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA) was founded in 1997 as a coalition of major United States college football awards. The stated purpose of the NCFAA is to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of college football's various awards. The NCFAA also encourages professionalism and the highest standards possible for the administration of college football awards and the selection of their winners. The 22 awards are considered among the most prestigious in college football.
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GFW Knockouts Championship The GFW Knockouts Championship also refrred to as The Impact Knockouts Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship owned by Impact Wrestling also known as Global Force Wrestling (GFW). It is primarily contested for in GFW's women's division, known as the Knockouts. The championship debuted on October 14, 2007 at the Bound for Glory pay-per-view (PPV) event under the name the TNA Women's World Championship; it was renamed the TNA Women's Knockout Championship in 2008 through 2010, then simplified to TNA Knockouts Championship until the promotion changed its name in March 2017.
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GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship The Global Honored Crown Openweight Hardcore Championship was a semi-official professional wrestling championship contested in Pro Wrestling Noah. It was originally created in 2004 as a singles title known as the GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship; in 2007 it was announced that it would be reformed into a tag team title, continuing with the same lineage as the original belt. Later in 2007, it reverted to being a singles championship.
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Southern Wrestling Hall of Fame The Southern Wrestling Hall of Fame (originally the Texas Wrestling Hall of Fame) is a professional wrestling hall of fame maintained by Iconic Heroes of Wrestling Excellence (IHWE). Established in 2009 to honor select wrestling personalities, inductees were initially limited to alumni of the Global Wrestling Federation, National Wrestling Alliance, USWA Texas, and World Class Championship Wrestling, but also included independent stars after 2011. In 2015, the hall of fame expanded to include wrestling personalities from all of the Southern United States.
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Blinded Veterans Association The Blinded Veterans Association (BVA) is a U.S non-profit organization that was established to "help veterans and their families meet and overcome the challenges of blindness".
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Jim Thorpe Award The Jim Thorpe Award, named in memory of multi-sport legend Jim Thorpe, has been awarded to the top defensive back in college football since 1986. It is voted on by The Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, an organization based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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NWA United National Heavyweight Championship The NWA United National Heavyweight Championship (often shortened to UN Championship) is a professional wrestling title in the Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Zero1. It is one of Zero1's top two singles titles, along with the Zero1 World Heavyweight Championship. The UN title was created on January 31, 2004, when Masato Tanaka defeated Steve Corino in an Indian strap match, wrestling as Masa Tanaka. It was founded at a time when Zero1 was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance; since the two organizations' parting in late 2004, the NWA does not recognize or sanction it, though it retains the NWA initials. There have been a total of 24 recognized champions who have had a combined 29 official reigns. The title was revived by NWA Pro Wrestling in January 2011. NWA began recognizing title and sanctioning title matches in January 2011 after Zero1 was reinstated as a member of NWA. NWA stopped sanctioning the title after Zero1 left the NWA again in 2011.
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Carson Jones Carson Jones (born August 19, 1986 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American professional boxer at welterweight and is the reigning USBA welterweight champion (June 11, 2011). He was also the former NABA light-middle weight champion (April 22, 2010), the former WBC Continental Americas light-middle weight champion (May 7, 2009), and the former NABA USA light middleweight champion (April 18, 2008). Nicknamed 'Mr. Jones', he achieved his highest ranking in May 2012, when he was placed as the #4 rated welterweight in the world by the IBF.
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Night of Champions (2008) Night of Champions (2008) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and presented by P&G's Gillette Fusion Power, which took place on June 29, 2008, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. It was the first annual event to be promoted solely under the Night of Champions name and the eighth annual event under the Vengeance/Night of Champions chronology. It starred wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. Like the previous year before, every match on the card was contested for a championship; three were won and five were retained.
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WEC 35 WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura was a mixed martial arts event held by World Extreme Cagefighting that took place on August 3, 2008 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada. The event drew an estimated 423,000 viewers on Versus. The event featured 3 title fights, the last time a Zuffa, LLC promoted MMA card featured more than two title fights on the same card.