Comments Thread For: Mayweather Approved By WBC To Defend 147/154 Belts

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has approved a request by Floyd Mayweather Jr. to defend both of his WBC titles, at welterweight and junior middleweight, against Marcos Maidana on September 13th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Mayweather also holds the WBA crown at 147 and 154.

Sulaiman compares Mayweather's historic request to Sugar Ray Leonard's fight with Donnie Lalonde in November of 1988, when the WBC super middleweight and light heavyweight titles were both at stake in the same fight.
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[Bajingo]

why would he be able to? more fees for them and i guess a little extra incentive for maidana... if he somehow wins i bet canelo will fight him at 154 for the title.

[BornToLive]

I'm a fan of Floyd...but what happend to 'belts only collect dust?' lol.

Maidana can be a 3 division champion by only fighting in 2 divisions lol.

Bull***** to be fair.

[Cubanstyle]

So that means Sulaiman will collect sanction fees for each belt, smart approval

[Chiboxing123]

Honestly who gives a s***

[GOD-FR33]

This is ******......

This is ******, not historic at all.Floyd is just trying to say he did something that's never been done before. This shouldn't be compared to what Leonard did because he and Lalonde were both Champs from different divisions. Floyd is a fighting a rematch with a C Level fighter he should've defeated easier than he did.

[Public_Enemy]

This is bogus. Maidana isn't a ranked 154 fighter.

As the saying goes, money talks.

[Hougigo]

Wait... what about throwing in the WBC diamond 160 belt and the 168 belts? Might as well while you're at it

[IHATEBOBARUM1]

this is whats wrong with this sport. total joke

[DoktorSleepless]

We currently have welterweight as the lineal 154 champ and a jr middleweight as the lineal 160 champ.