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Mayweather stripped of title he won in Pacquiao fight

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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

Kofi Oppong Kyekyeku

I am a Ghanaian Broadcast Journalist/Writer who has an interest in General News, Sports, Entertainment, Health, Lifestyle and many more.

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