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Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been stripped of the welterweight world title
he won after beating Filipino Manny Pacquiao this year for failing to
comply with rules, the World Boxing Organization said on Monday.
Mayweather, who improved to 48-0 by beating Pacquiao in May, missed a
deadline by which he had to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee from the
fight and vacate the junior middleweight title
he also held, the WBO said in a statement.
The WBO said it is against rules for boxers to hold world titles in
multiple weight classes and that Mayweather had to indicate which
weight division he would retain.
Mayweather, who finished ahead on all three scorecards of what proved
to be the top-grossing prize fight of all-time, had until 4:30 p.m. ET
last Friday to advise the WBO of his position.
"The WBO World Championship Committee is allowed no other alternative
but to cease to recognize Mr. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. as the WBO
Welterweight Champion of the World and vacate his
title, for failing to comply with our WBO Regulations of World Championship
Contests," the WBO said in a statement.
Mayweather, who earned over $200 million from the fight which
generated a record pay-per-view revenue in the United States of $400
million, has two weeks to
launch an appeal.
credit: Reuters
