Middleweight World Championship Series Middleweight World Championship Series The Middleweight World Championship Series was a boxing round-robin tournament staged by Don King Productions. The goal of the series was to produce a unified Middleweight boxing champion. The victor took the WBC, WBA, IBF and vacant Ring Magazine 160-pound belts home, and became the first undisputed middleweight king since Marvellous Marvin Hagler held the distinction from 1979 until 1987. The victor was also awarded a specially commissioned "Sugar" Ray Robinson trophy. The contenders in the tournament were William Joppy(WBA champion), Keith Holmes(WBC champion), Bernard Hopkins(IBF champion), and Félix Trinidad. The semifinals pitted Trinidad against Joppy
2006 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships 2006 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships The 2006 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships was an international women's boxing competition hosted by India from November 18 to November 23, 2006 in New Delhi. It was the 4th championship, which started in 2001 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, US. The World Championship was contested in thirteen weight disciplines by 180 amateur women boxers from 32 countries, and was conducted in the Talkatora Indoor Stadium. India won four gold, one silver and three bronze medals, while Russia, last year's champion, finished second with three gold and three bronze medals, followed by North Korea with a