As it was, George Foreman, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world, pretty much filled the television screen.

But at Brooklyn College, Sergei Nabatov, a 48-year-old Ukrainian and onetime international champion, offers four classes of a one-credit course in ballroom dancing.

In February 1992, he needed to beat Larry Holmes, the onetime champion, in order to get a bout with Holyfield, the champion.

That, essentially, is what has happened to Riddick Bowe, the onetime heavyweight champion with the manager who alienated people who can now retaliate.

He is probably the highest-profile actor-turned-driver since Paul Newman, the onetime sports-car champion.

Archer has been training Davidoff for a few exhibition rounds with Gerry Cooney, a onetime almost-heavyweight champion, later this month.

"I wasn't in shape," Tommy Spinks said the other day, shrugging off the instructional mauling by his father, Leon Spinks, the onetime heavyweight champion.

The onetime champions of the right campaign against public-health spending cuts by the left.

Her husband went through a similar change of political heart, and so even did her mother, the onetime champion of unions.

The demonstrators denounced President Evo Morales, their onetime champion, as a lackey of Brazil.