Mayweather stripped of WBO title

“In the present case, Mr Mayweather Jr failed to pay the $200,000 fee required of him as a participant of a WBO World Championship Contest."

The World Boxing Organisation has ceased to recognise Floyd Mayweather as its welterweight world champion after he failed to pay the governing body a mandatory $200,000 (€182,000) sanction fee.

The 38-year-old has been stripped of the title he claimed from a unanimous-decision victory over Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2, after missing Friday’s deadline to pay the WBO a sanction fee taken from the bout’s reported $300m purse.