titleholder
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WBO and Ring Magazine titleholder Teofimo Lopez is set to face Shakur Stevenson on 31 January, while Gary Russell holds the WBA belt and Richardson Hitchins is the IBF champion.
From BBC
The 2018 titleholder, Catriona Gray, urged her 13.8 million Instagram followers to help a charity bring safe drinking water to thousands left homeless by back-to-back super typhoons in the Philippines.
From BBC
The Kahlo also became the world’s priciest Latin American artwork by besting the $34.9 million that Buenos Aires real-estate developer Eduardo Costantini paid in 2021 for the previous titleholder, a different Kahlo from 1949, “Diego y yo.”
The painting also now joins a coveted group of art trophies that have sold for over $100 million, led by the reigning titleholder, a $450 million Leonardo da Vinci, “Salvator Mundi,” that Christie’s sold in 2017.
Then, the 31-year-old American was returning as a previous titleholder; he was also the recently crowned US PGA champion and a week away from taking his second major by lifting the Claret Jug at Royal Troon.
From BBC
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