{"id":54659,"date":"2015-07-07T17:44:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T09:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54659"},"modified":"2015-07-07T17:44:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T09:44:39","slug":"mayweather-loses-wbo-title-he-won-from-pacquiao-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/07\/mayweather-loses-wbo-title-he-won-from-pacquiao-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather loses WBO title he won from Pacquiao bout"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pound-for-pound<\/a>
Pound-for-pound king Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. (Photo courtesy of Mayweather Promotions)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 The World Boxing Organization (WBO) stripped of Floyd \u201cMoney\u201d Mayweather Jr.\u2019s WBO Welterweight Champion of the World title which he got from his megafight with Filipino boxer Manny \u201cPacman\u201d Pacquiao earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d the WBO said in its resolution, mentioning that the boxing organization prohibited boxers from holding numerous world titles in different weight classes at the same time.<\/p>\n

Aside from the WBO welterweight title, Mayweather also held two alphabet welterweight world titles from the World Boxing Council (WBC) and the World Boxing Association (WBA).<\/p>\n

The WBC and the WBA bypassed their rules and allowed Mayweather to retain his titles but the WBO was firm on its rules.<\/p>\n

The WBO, for its part, claimed that it repeatedly reminded Mayweather of the boxing rule for two months before ceasing his title.<\/p>\n

Mayweather respected the organization and \u2018spoke at length about affording the opportunity to other fighters, particularly those of a younger generation\u2019 as he was \u2018not greedy.\u2019<\/p>\n

He was then sanctioned to pay $200,000 from his last fight. He, however, was unable to meet the deadline to pay the said amount, stripping him of his WBO title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe WBO has the utmost respect for Floyd Mayweather Jr. and all that he has accomplished during his storied career\u2026 \u00a0Mr. Mayweather has always agreed with and understood that world championships have both privileges and responsibilities and that status as WBO champion is subject to and conditioned on compliance with the WBO rules and regulations,\u201d the WBO further said in its resolution.<\/p>\n

Mayweather\u2019s camp, however, was displeased by the WBO\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a complete disgrace\u2026\u00a0 Floyd will decide what, or if any, actions he will take. But in the meantime he\u2019s enjoying a couple of hundred million he made from his last outing and this has zero impact on anything he does,\u201d Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe said in an ESPN report.<\/p>\n

\u201cFloyd Mayweather has a great deal of respect for each and every organization, as he has always had in his 19-year career, but he will not be dictated to by any organization or person as it relates to his decision making,\u201d Ellerbe added.<\/p>\n

With the WBO Welterweight Champion of the World vacated, American boxer Timothy Bradley has been seen as the possible title holder after recently defeating Jessie Vargas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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