Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Mosley is a Non-Title Fight, Says Schaefer

[Calilloyd]

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has confirmed that Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley, scheduled for May 1 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, is technically a non-title fight. The WBA's welterweight title will only be at stake for Mosley, because Mayweather has refused to pay the necessary sanctioning fees. [Click Here To Read More]

So what? This fight is not about belts anyway.

[gingeralbino]

Depends how good Floyd beats Mosley. If it's a close fight that demands a rematch, Pac may still get the nod as #1.

there wont be a clear champ until the winner fights Pac.
Pac is ranked no 1
Mosley 2
Floyd 3 (ring rankings)

#1 has to fight #2 for their to be a lineal champ.

Even if Floyd or Mosley ends up being ranked above Pac as #1 after the fight (and they should be imo), they wont be the WW champ - just as Pac isnt at the minute.

[M.I.C.]

It benefits Floyd for there to be more titlist out there, potentially more guys for him to fight.

[Calilloyd]

[QUOTE=JOHNNY666;8139732]Does anyone here know how much a WBA sanctioning fee costs? It would be interesting to know if its hundreds of dollars or thousands.[/QUOTE]

This.

[oc9979]

Well he dont really need the belt, just the names. But it would be a little bonus added to a win over Mosley. Im trying to wonder how much percentage to the fighters purse the WBA requires?

it is a 3% of the purse min of $3,500 and max of $150,000
http://www.wbaonline.com/
page 69 of their regulation

[oc9979]

Why is there a rematch in the clause if no belt is on the line?

rematch is not for the belt. it is for the money involve

[Va_BoriKua]

*** the wba

[Wukillabeez78]

Mayweather doesn't want the belt because he doesn't want to have to fight who the WBA or any other sanctioning body wants him to fight. Floyd doesn't want to fight the young, hungry kid who has come up through the ranks and is rated the #1 contender. Floyd only wants to fight big money fights. He can say belts only collect dust all he wants but in reality he is really saying screw mandatory title defenses. I want to fight who I want, where I want, when I want, for this amount of $$$....

All of you guys who feel more fighters should follow suit obviously don't care about the young, upcoming fighters either. How are they going to get title shots when no one wants to fight them? The system we currently have that ranks the fighters forces the champions to have to defend their belts against these challengers. I think that the sanctioning organizations need to be revamped and the ranking system obviously needs to be tweeked (how can a fighter be ranked by one organization and not ranked by another) but feel the way things are done now is good for the sport. Prizefighters fight for purses (money) but the main goal should still be to get to the top of your division and win the hardware (belts). If this is your goal you're going to make money. You can still fight other challengers that might not be your mandatories because you only have a few mandatories a year and have plenty of time to schedule big money non-mandatory showdowns.

[pbftxrs316]

that's bull****---floyd would become the unified ww champion after he beats shane, manny, and berto---that would be epic----

[FLYBOY]

who cares about these alphabet titles. they are a joke. lol 5 different champions in each different weight class is ridiculous. Good move by Floyd.