1.   World champions took matches much less frequently and in between Lynch liked to drink.

2.   A three-times World speedway champion has been taking motorbike lessons... so that he can pass his test.

3.   An Olympic breaststroke champion has taken on a junior swimming team -- and lost.

4.   The Commonwealth super-middleweight champion takes on American Kenny Schaefer over ten rounds at the Barbican Leisure Centre.

5.   The world champion took the third frame, but with Wattana winning the fourth everything at this point suggested a tense final.

6.   As his challenger talked, the champion calmly took it all in, convinced that Grant would soon enough have a different vision.

7.   After all, someone is going to have to fight Tyson before the former champion takes on a mega-fight against a Riddick Bowe or a George Foreman.

8.   After the reigning Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion took the next four games, things changed quickly.

9.   Both Bowe and Futch were disgusted by this and to a degree it explained why the champion took six rounds to finish him.

10.   Last Tuesday night, Mike Tyson talked about how on a bad night a real champion takes his beating like a man.