Mayweather stripped of WBO title

>Floyd Mayweather Jr. off the welterweight title he won against Manny Pacquiao, after the American pugilist failed to comply with the organisation’s rules.

After corresponding with Mayweather’s attorney, John Hornewer, the WBO elected to give Mayweather extra time to pay the fee and vacate his belts at 154 pounds. He has beaten all the top of the line boxers here at the moment.

Section 15 of WBO regulations states: “No WBO Champion may hold a non-WBO Championship in a weight class that is different from the weight class of his WBO Championship”. In total, the much-hyped fight generated about $400 million in USA revenues, reports Xinhua. Mayweather also indicated after his Pacquiao victory that he intended to vacate his titles anyway, allowing new champions to emerge. “The affected WBO Participant may appeal to the Complaint and Grievance Committee pursuant to WBO World Championship Section 34, which per Rule 3(e) of the WBO Appeals Regulation, must be submitted in writing to the WBO President within 14 days of the date of this decision as its sole and exclusive remedy“. Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao meet in a long-awaited boxing match at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday, May 2. “But in the meantime he’s enjoying a couple of hundred million he made from his last outing and this has zero impact on anything he does”, Ellerbe said.

Mayweather has said that he plans to retire after that fight, ESPN reported. But Mayweather didn’t comply with the WBO’s requests, so they have stripped him of the 147-pound WBO belt. The title is expected to go to Timothy Bradley, who beat Jessie Vargas in an interim title bout last month, if the Mayweather issue is not resolved by the deadline.

With the WBO title now gone from Mayweather’s waist, Tim Bradley is most likely the frontrunner to attain full titleholder status.