• Mayweather Stripped
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[URL]http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/13211446/floyd-mayweather-jr-stripped-wbo-welterweight-title[/URL] [URL]http://time.com/3947464/floyd-mayweather-welterweight-title-manny-pacquiao/[/URL] [quote]The WBO stripped pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather of his welterweight world title on Monday for his failure to comply with the organization's rules. Mayweather claimed the WBO welterweight title when he outpointed Manny Pacquiao on May 2 in a 147-pound unification fight that shattered all financial records for a boxing match, including total gross, pay-per-view subscriptions, closed circuit revenue, live gate, foreign television sales and sponsorships. Mayweather, who holds two other alphabet welterweight world titles, let come and go the 4:30 p.m. ET Friday deadline by which he had to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee from the May 2 fight (for which he earned more than $220 million) and vacate the two junior middleweight titles he also holds. It is against sanctioning organization rules for boxers to hold world titles in multiple weight classes. The WBC and WBA had been breaking their own rules by allowing Mayweather to hold their titles, but the WBO upheld its rules.[B]"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,"[/B] the WBO wrote Monday in its resolution. Typically, the WBO will allow a fighter 10 days to decide which weight class he wants to continue to hold the title in, if he wins one in another weight division. The WBO gave Mayweather major leeway -- two months. Once the Friday deadline expired, the WBO sent the issue to its championship committee, which voted Monday afternoon to strip Mayweather of the belt for not complying with either request. "The WBO has the utmost respect for Floyd Mayweather Jr. and all that he has accomplished during his storied career," the WBO wrote in its resolution. "Mr. 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." The Mayweather camp was displeased by the ruling.[/quote]
They're doing him a favour, really. He earned the title and only lost it for basically paperwork reasons, and he raked in a small country's GNP in the fight. Defending the title would be a hassle for him at this point. :v: If this was me this would be where I give everyone the finger and retire to a private 100-acre place in Belize or something.
He should have been stripped of it because he's a professional dancer/runner and not a boxer. Should strip him of the purse for that fight too, because it was a snorefest.
Big whoop, he won, everyone knows it.
[QUOTE=Sungrazer;48141508]He should have been stripped of it because he's a professional dancer/runner and not a boxer. Should strip him of the purse for that fight too, because it was a snorefest.[/QUOTE] I see you also turned into a boxing expert after that fight
holy fuck 220 million dollars for one fight? jesus fucking christ
[video=youtube;KIq9f3kW1cA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIq9f3kW1cA[/video] Pretty good sum-up of that shitfest, for anyone who (somehow) missed it.
[QUOTE=Nautsabes;48142713]holy fuck 220 million dollars for one fight? jesus fucking christ[/QUOTE] He won a quarter of a billion dollars. That is insane for one person. Also, I wonder if it had to do with greed; Mayweather simply not waning to pay the $200,000 sanctioning fee.
[QUOTE=Sungrazer;48141508]He should have been stripped of it because he's a professional dancer/runner and not a boxer. Should strip him of the purse for that fight too, because it was a snorefest.[/QUOTE] Sure it's boring as fuck but it IS a boxing style and it has been one for a long time. Boxing isn't all about ramming in as if you were a bulldozer and going into a slugfest. No matter how people hate him for the way he won, he still won legitimately.
[QUOTE=Sungrazer;48141508]He should have been stripped of it because he's a professional dancer/runner and not a boxer. Should strip him of the purse for that fight too, because it was a snorefest.[/QUOTE] Boxing is very much a sport, there's a strategy to it and it encompasses more than simply beating the hell out of your opponent. That said, the traditional boxer approach Mayweather takes is a bit more tedious to watch than the more offensive swarmer approach most people seem to expect.
[QUOTE=CrucialSeBBi;48142334]I see you also turned into a boxing expert after that fight[/QUOTE] I've seen other fights with Manny Pacquiao and they're more exciting than that. And they, you know, punched. [editline]8th July 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Smug Bastard;48142884]Boxing is very much a sport, there's a strategy to it and it encompasses more than simply beating the hell out of your opponent. That said, the traditional boxer approach Mayweather takes is a bit more tedious to watch than the more offensive swarmer approach most people seem to expect.[/QUOTE] I understand it's a sport with strategy. I've seen plenty of matches where the guys defended themselves without being complete turtles for 12 fucking rounds.
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