Floyd Mayweather Jr stripped of WBO welterweight title

July 07, 2015 08:39

Floyd Mayweather Jr has been stripped of the WBO welterweight title he won in his victory over Manny Pacquiao after failing to comply with the organisations rules.

Mayweather, who also holds the WBC and WBA titles, had until Friday to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee from the 2 May fight, for which he earned more than $220 million, reported ESPN.com. He also has not reliquished his junior middleweight titles WBO rules state that a boxer can only hold belts in one weight class, they had given Mayweather time to make the decision on which weight to stick at.

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 on Monday.

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