Boxing
Events
- 10 August — the World Featherweight Championship title becomes vacant as Johnny Dundee relinquishes it to fight as a lightweight
Lineal world champions
- World Heavyweight Championship – Jack Dempsey
- World Light Heavyweight Championship – Mike McTigue
- World Middleweight Championship – Harry Greb
- World Welterweight Championship – Mickey Walker
- World Lightweight Championship – Benny Leonard
- World Featherweight Championship – Johnny Dundee → vacant
- World Bantamweight Championship – Joe Lynch → Abe Goldstein → Eddie "Cannonball" Martin
- World Flyweight Championship – Pancho Villa
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