Las Vegas Sun

March 19, 2024

WBO poised to strip Floyd Mayweather Jr. of 147-pound belt

Floyd hits Manny

L.E. Baskow

Floyd Mayweather connects to the chin of Manny Pacquiao late in their fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

After pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. outpointed Manny Pacquiao on May 2 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas in the richest fight in boxing history to unify three of the four major welterweight world titles, Mayweather spoke at length at the postfight news conference about how he planned to vacate all of his titles in order to give younger fighters a chance to realize their dreams of winning belts.

But it has been two months since the fight, and Mayweather has not vacated any of his three welterweight titles or two junior middleweight titles, and the WBO has had enough.

Mayweather claimed the WBO welterweight title with the unanimous decision victory against Pacquiao, but the Puerto Rico-based organization is poised to withdraw its recognition of Mayweather as its 147-pound titleholder after he failed to comply with a 4:30 p.m. ET deadline Friday to pay his $200,000 sanctioning fee from the May 2 fight and vacate the two 154-pound world titles he holds.

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