Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather, WBO at Odds Over Welterweight Title

[arraamis]

My guess is that Valcarcel wants to be able to give the WBO belt to a Top Rank fighter. Because his daddy Bob Arum keeps bugging him about it.

Exactly what it is, in a nutshell!!!

Plus, Floyd only won that worthless alphabet belt on May 2nd (Little over 4 weeks) and Paco is already *****ing and moaning for some cash. I'm guessing that ole Arum gave him a call in the hope of squeezing out some favoritism.

[-PBP-]

WBO has its rights to strip Floyd he never fights the number one contender he hand picks opponent who are at their end of their careers . If he fought the number one's he would have had to fight Porter, Brook Thurman rather than slow Hispanic fighters or a wash up Asian who was being protected after his loss by fighting Jr Welters

Guerrero was the #1 contender and he fought him. After that every single fight has been a unification. Now he's unified in 2 weight classes. GGG, Ward and Rigo are scared to go up one.

Floyd is the only fighter that works and acts like a champion should.

[RetroSpeed05]

Who cares, unless Floyd wants to become undisputed. Everyone knows whoever wins the WBO title is a paper champion.

[bigjavi973]

Looks like Floyd will keep the WBC/WBA/WBO welterweight titles and maybe fight Brook for the IBF title.

If he lets go of the WBC/WBA titles I can see Cotto-Canelo for the vacant 154 lbs WBC title.

[Gentblue]

It's a percentage

Why they want 200k when #48 put the sanctioning fee up when he put title on line money grabbing move and to try and keep title in top rank stable

The WBA and WBC Half a mil each.

IDK if Pac paid the fees remember Baldamir when he beat Judah he lost the WBA and The IBF because he didn't pay the Fees( because he couldn't afford it). So it's not unheard of for a the winner to get stripped for not paying fees or too turn a belt down for not paying fee ala May vs Mosley

[bigjavi973]

This is why a lot of these belts are considered meaningless. If a world champion can win a belt in a title fight and still have two other fighters competing for the SAME belt how the hell does your belt signify a real champion?

Now they also want him to send them a 200,000 dollar check and relinquish his belts at light middleweight? Floyd has been criticized for never being undisputed but people don't realize he is not undisputed because of the politics that go on in boxing and the fact that there are way more belts today then there were 20 years ago.

Supposedly the agreement was that Floyd would vacate the WBO title.

Floyd "has" to vacate the 154 lbs titles cuz the WBO rules state that a fighter can not hold belts in multiple weight classes (you know how floyd defended his 154 lbs title vs maidana at 147 instead of against another 154 lbr)

[Gentblue]

Supposedly the agreement was that Floyd would vacate the WBO title.

Floyd "has" to vacate the 154 lbs titles cuz the WBO rules state that a fighter can not hold belts in multiple weight classes (you know how floyd defended his 154 lbs title vs maidana at 147 instead of against another 154 lbr)

Well at least the WBO is being consistent on that like how they stripped Martinez, Algieri and Crawford. In Floyd defense on defending the WBC 154 title against maidana he was mad that Ellerbe put him in that situation and said why am I defending a title against a Non SWW (theirs an article on here about it).

[AllBoxingAD]

Well at least the WBO is being consistent on that like how they stripped Martinez, Algieri and Crawford. In Floyd defense on defending the WBC 154 title against maidana he was mad that Ellerbe put him in that situation and said why am I defending a title against a Non SWW (theirs an article on here about it).

I dont feel like the WBO is being consistent because basically they just told Floyd that regardless of their own rules, he can do whatever he wants, so long as he pays them for it.

[Lou Cipher]

Whats the difference? Every belt he holds he lost on May 2 in the eyes of ANYONE who knows Boxing.

[Johnwoo8686]

Whats the difference? Every belt he holds he lost on May 2 in the eyes of ANYONE who knows Boxing.

I guess the three official judges, the commentators, HBO and Showtimes judges, the press, and the boxers who called the fight all don't know boxing huh?

You guys are in denial