titleholder

• “At the end of those competitions, there is always a titleholder.”

  The Huffington Post: Liz O'Connell: Triple Crown: the Toughest Title to Win in Sports

• “The focus now returns to Malignaggi, a former titleholder who has shared the ring with some of the best fighters in the world.”

  Khan hopes to make name for himself in America

• “If you are talking only about the rights of the titleholder to the structure, then yes.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » An Important Case on Compensation for Takings

• “Several players asked about the situation said the game's winner should be the sole titleholder, period.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Shall the Second Be First in BCS Title Game?

• “Welterweight contender and former IBF titleholder.”

  The Huffington Post: Elliot Worsell: Boxers Who Might Win a Fight in UFC

• “It worked perfectly as the top three rated players and pre-tournament favorites, the defending U.S. champion GM Hikaru Nakamura, former world championship challenger Gata Kamsky and former U.S. champion GM Alexander Onischuk, qualified and were joined by the 2008 titleholder Yuri Shulman.”

  The Huffington Post: Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Champ Kamsky Wins in Overtime

• “All the while, the former middleweight, super-middleweight and cruiserweight titleholder would remain stoically static, occasionally poke out his tongue, shake his hips or cast aspersions on his opponent's mother or sister.”

  The Huffington Post: Elliot Worsell: The Lights Are on and Lesnar's Home

• “Miss Oklahoma USA, Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, was crowned first runner-up and will assume the duties of Miss USA 2010 if the titleholder is named MISS Universe 2010 or if for some reason Fakih cannot fulfill her duties.”

  Doug Reinhardt Dating Miss USA Rima Fakih

• “But he wrote an inglorious end to an utterly inglorious American showing in the ring in Beijing, losing 7-1 in Friday's semifinals to Italian world titleholder Clemente Russo.”

  Wilder loses, but earns bronze for USA's lone boxing medal

• “However, it clearly states in the rulebook, that in order for a wrestler to be deemed champion, he must either pin the reigning titleholder or make him submit.”

  Simon & Schuster: WWE Championship

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