4. Stripped of His Title
In the summer of 2015, following his popular Manny Pacquiao WBO Welterweight title fight, Floyd was stripped of the championship for noncompliance with organization regulations. At the time that he defeated Pacquiao, Floyd also held two junior middleweight championships and the WBO rules clearly stated that boxers can’t hold titles in multiple weight classes.
Floyd was given a deadline in July to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee and vacate his other two titles. He ignored the request so three days later they stripped him of his WBO title.
The WBO statement reads:
“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.”
It wasn’t a big deal to Floyd, seeing as how he already earned $220 million for the Pacquiao fight, money that they couldn’t take back.
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