This weekend in Las Vegas, Swiss watch logo Hublot teamed up with the World Boxing Council (WBC) for a star-studded Night of Champions event. The gala befell the night earlier than the Canelo/Jacobs fight and venerated thirteen of the most legendary boxers in history, which will increase money for the WBC Jose Sulaiman Boxers Fund (to assist boxers who had been much less fortunate in their careers). In reality, through a silent public sale, a stay auction, and a donation pledge program, Hublot and WBC raised $1.2 million.
The cocktail and seated dinner turned into history inside the making, honoring more than a dozen of the best-residing legends and many more well-known boxers in attendance. Those commemorated included “Iron” Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Olympic medalist and five-time heavyweight winner Evander Holyfield, Olympic medalist Lennox Lewis, four-time world champion Julio Cesar Chavez, 5-time world champion Roberto Duran, Detroit-born Thomas Hearns “The hitman,” Big George Foreman, seven-time global champion in six divisions Oscar De la Hoya, three-time heavyweight champ Vitaly Klitschko, five department champion five times Jeff Fenech, Hozumi Hasegawa, and Zou Shiming. Additionally, Carlos Santana became venerated for his contribution to the tune and was awarded the Campeon de Los Angeles Musica (Champion of Music).
Among the objects auctioned at the dinner were eight one-of-a-type applications that Hublot supplied, together with a trip to Kyiv to enroll in retired boxer Vitaly Klitschko, now Mayor of Kyiv, for a weekend. Other packages deliver the winner of the auction package deal into the Heavyweight champion ring at upcoming combat, throw the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game, or receive private boxing lessons from a WBC Champion. In all, it becomes an excellent array of applications being auctioned, many of which leverage the numerous sports activities Hublot is involved in. All the proceeds go to the charitable projects of WBC, the global governing body in the boxing international. In conjunction with Hublot, WBC hooked up the Jose’ Sulaiman Boxers Fund seven years in the past, in 2012, to shield boxers’ safety, health, and proper well-being. The price range raised is dispensed to retired boxers with fitness or financial difficulties.
In an interview the day of the occasion, boxing excellent Lennox Lewis said he admires what the WBC and Hublot are doing. “Not absolutely everyone is a champion in boxing. Not all and sundry make it. They put their coronary heart and soul into boxing and get nothing back out of it. We must assist them and make something available for them. Hublot and WBC are doing that.” He also mentioned that luxurious watch brands didn’t need to get involved in international boxing in the past. “It changed into considering a violet recreation, so luxurious manufacturers stayed away. But now, because the generations have changed, it isn’t always seen as violent but as an important sport that humans are excited to watch. Other brands placed their cash in different sports. We are delighted to have Hublot operating with us.”
In honor of the partnership with WBC, Hublot unveiled the Big Bang Unico WBC watch in green ceramic and gold with an inexperienced ceramic bezel. The 45mm watches house the HUB1242 Unico manufacture-made self-winding chronograph movement with column-wheel flyback chronograph and 72 hours of strength reserve. The matte black dial is partly open-worked for a better view of the 330-component movement. The micro-blasted inexperienced ceramic version is made in a limited version of one hundred pieces. In contrast, the yellow gold version with an inexperienced ceramic bezel is being made in a 50-piece edition. Both are completed with a green alligator strap, as inexperienced is the coloration of the championship belt. Each of the 13 residing legend boxers commemorated on occasion had been gifted the inexperienced ceramic model of the Hublot Big Bang Unico WBC.
According to Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot, “We are proud to have raised over 1 million dollars tonight to benefit the WBC and celebrate the fusion of famed competitors and Swiss watchmaking. This collaboration maintains the emblem’s long history in support of the noble artwork of boxing and celebrates the legend of the legends.”
