The World Boxing Organization on Thursday ordered negotiations to begin for Sam Noakes and Abdullah Mason to meet for the lightweight title after it was stripped from Keyshawn Davis. Davis deliberately missed weight and tried to bait De Los Santos into fighting despite him weighing into another weight class but De Los Santos didn’t take the bait and declined to fight him.
Despite not fighting and risking insult and injury. De Los Santos made $165,000 for not fighting which isn’t that bad considering that he signed up to make Davis look good at home with the possibility of shocking the world and winning the WBO belt.