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unusual facts about The Champion



Jesseca Liu

Liu was spotted by a producer in MediaCorp in 2004 who offered her the meaty role of He Yi Xuan in the sports themed drama, The Champion, starring opposite Qi Yu Wu and Taiwanese actors Toro and Yan Xing Shu.


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1933 Australian Championships – Women's Singles

Joan Hartigan is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.

1936 Stanley Cup Finals

Detroit's "champions" also included Detroit's "Brown Bomber," Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion; native Detroiter Gar Wood who was the champion of unlimited powerboat racing and the first man to go 100 miles per hour on water; and Eddie "the Midnight Express" Tolan, a black Detroiter who won gold medals in the 100- and 200-meter races at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

1953 Australian Championships – Women's Singles

Maureen Connolly is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.

1960 Caribbean Series

The XII edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was a baseball tournament held from February 10 through February 15, 1960 featuring the champion teams from Cuba (Cienfuegos), Panama (Marlboro), Puerto Rico (Caguas) and Venezuela (Rapiños).

1971 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final

The 1971 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final was the inaugural All-Ireland club final and the culmination of the 1970–71 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the champion club teams in Ireland.

1973 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final

The 1973 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final was the third All-Ireland club final and the culmination of the 1972–73 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the champion club teams in Ireland.

2009 Black Forest Open – Singles

Simon Greul was the champion in 2008, but he decided to not defend his title.

American Champion Citabria

In 1970, Champion was acquired by Bellanca Aircraft Corporation, which continued production of all of the Champion-designed variants.

Anthems for the Champion – The Queen

Anthems for the Champion - The Queen is an EP by German female hard rock singer Doro Pesch, released in 2007 through AFM Records.

Big Ten Championship

Big Ten Football Championship Game crowns the champion of the Big Ten football season.

Bricriu

(Two motifs in this story, the champion's portion and the beheading challenge, are mentioned by the Greek writer Posidonius as practices of the ancient Celts. The beheading challenge is also central to the Middle English Arthurian poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.)

Caus Castle

On 10 Aug. 1443, at Caus Castle Sir Gruffudd Vychan pierced with a lance the heart of his master, Sir Christopher Talbot (1419–1443), son of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and the champion tilter of England.

Champion de Crespigny baronets

The Champion de Crespigny Baronetcy, of Champion Lodge, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Champion of the Universe

The Champion challenged the superheroes Thing, Namor, Hulk, Colossus, Sasquatch, Thor, Doc Samson, and Wonder Man to a boxing match in Madison Square Garden while a forcefield is around it and brought them to his extra-dimensional training facility to prepare for the match.

Clara Lin

She also took part in the Costume and Makeup competition organised by City Harvest Church Singapore Emerge Conference in June 2007 and emerged as the champion, outshining contestants from art schools like Laselle.

Conference USA Championship Game

Conference USA Football Championship Game crowns the champion of the C-USA football season.

Derek Birnage

In 1954 Birnage launched a new sports-themed comic, Tiger, and asked writer Frank S. Pepper to create a more realistic football strip than The Champion's "Danny of the Dazzlers".

FK ASK

As at the end of the season both clubs had equal points and it was the first such precedent in the Latvian league and no regulations existed for such situations to determine the champion, at first the position was that both clubs would be given 1st place in the league however none of the would be considered champion, that title remaining with Rīgas FK - last year winners.

Great Tiger

He has been described as a difficult opponent by outlets such as The Daily Sentinel, The Globe and Mail, and Operation Sports, the latter commenting that he found Great Tiger to be harder than the champion opponent, Mr. Sandman.

Heracles Chariot Racing

Players control Heracles or one of a number of characters from Greek mythology (such as Poseidon, Medusa and the Minotaur) in a series of horseless chariot races for the honor of being crowned the Champion Charioteer without a horse.

Insco Apartments Building

The champion of the save-the-cabin cause was Mary Steele, whose columns in the local paper impelled many influential citizens toward saving the cabin and moving it elsewhere.

James Polkinghorne

Polkinghorne's greatest match was on 23 October 1826 against Abraham Cann of Colebrooke who was the champion of Devon.

Jerrel Venetiaan

In kickboxing, he was the champion of two K-1 GPs and defeated talented kickboxers such as Remy Bonjasky, Bjorn Bregy, Xhavit Bajrami and Jorgen Kruth.

John Aloysius Green

In addition to the Champion quarries, Mr. Green opened a quarry on Buffalo Creek, worked the old state quarry on the Wapsipinicon River for a time, a quarry at Wasioja, Minnesota, and one at Shuster, Missouri.

Latham Tawhai

After playing for the champion North Harbour Sea Eagles in the Lion Red Cup, Tawhai represented New Zealand at the inaugural Super League World Nines, helping the side to victory before signing for Keighley in 1996.

Luciana Morales Mendoza

In September 2003 she was the champion of the Zonal Tournament 2.4 in São Paulo with 9 points in 10 games, qualifying to the Women World Chess Championship that was held in 2004 in Elista.

Malaysia National Hockey Stadium

In the video clip of song "Simetri" sing by the Malaysia rockest Amy Search and Hazama AF9 the champion of popular reality television show Akademi Fantasia.

Match II

The son of the champion Tantieme, he won important races in France at age two then at age three won in France and England before capping off an outstanding 1962 season with a win in the prestigious Washington, D.C. International at the Laurel Park racecourse in Laurel, Maryland.

Nagambie

Nagambie was the birthplace of the champion racehorse Black Caviar.

NASCAR Whelen Euroseries

The champion is invited to the NASCAR Nights of Champions Gala at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina along with the rest of the regional series champions, with the 2012 champion Ander Vilariño being the first to attend.

Pat Conway

In 1955 and 1956, Conway was cast in two historic roles on Walter Cronkite's CBS series You Are There, first as young boxer James J. Corbett, fighting the champion John L. Sullivan, in the segment "The Birth of Modern Boxing: John L. Sullivan—James J. Corbett Battle (September 7, 1892)" and then in the American Revolution segment "Benedict Arnold's Plot Against West Point (September 23, 1780)".

Ralph DePalma

Ralph DePalma had a small role in the 1920 Hollywood film, High Speed and in 1924 played the part of the Champion in an action/drama written by Wilfred Lucas titled Racing for Life.

Robert Kyncl

Presenters, Dean Norris and Jeffrey Katzenberg, honored Robert Kyncl, Google/YouTube Head of Content, with the Heart and Humanity Champion Award and actor Nestor Serrano with the Champion Award of Courage and Hope.

Ronald Humarang

He auditioned for Little Big Superstar, the spin-off of Little Big Star, wherein he emerged as the First Honor or the Champion.

Rugby League Asian Cup

The format of the inaugural Rugby League Asian Cup involved a one off match held in Bangkok between Thailand and the Philippines to decide the champion of the tournament.

Soetjipto Soentoro

Soentoro was successful and his club became the champion of Perserikatan 1964 after the final win against Persebaya with a score of 4–1, played at Gelora Senayan Stadium.

South American Championship of Champions

They were given preference over Palmeiras, the São Paulo state champion, since Rio won the 1946 Championship of State Teams and thus was considered the champion of the stronger league.

Thomas Shadwell

But when Dryden joined the court party, and produced Absalom and Achitophel and The Medal, Shadwell became the champion of the Protestants, and made a scurrilous attack on Dryden in The Medal of John Bayes: a Satire against Folly and Knavery (1682).

Tim Easterby

Peter Easterby also trained Night Nurse, who was successful in the Champion Hurdle on two occasions and in 1981 was narrowly denied a Cheltenham Gold Cup triumph by Little Owl, ironically also trained by Peter Easterby.

Twenty Years After

The champion of the French populace and parliament, Pierre Broussel, is arrested, but then released when it becomes clear that his imprisonment has only served to stir the crowd up worse.

Unión de Curtidores

In 1974-1975 they managed to qualify for the playoff beating Club Leon 1-0, but fell to Toluca, who went on to become the champion that year.

Warcraft III professional competition

Only two premier tournaments which he never got champion are the World e-Sports Games and International E-Sports Festival but he also got the silver medals of World e-Sports Games in 2008 and 2010, and sliver medals of International E-Sports Festival in 2007.He helped the team World Elite get the champion of Warcraft III Champions League Season XI.

WMMM-FM

Project M - an annual reality-style competition featuring local artists; the champion sees one of their songs added to the station playlist and receives the opportunity to open for an Atlantic Records artist in concert.

Ystalyfera

The Brewery on site produced the Champion Beer of Wales in 2002/3 and 2003/4, coming 3rd in 2004/5.

ZWAM

According to Lesley Sharp the "cowboys" of ZWAM "assumed a style of dress reminiscent of Clint Eastwood, a loner recognized as the 'champion of real justice' over 'the venal guardians of formal law'".