Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been stripped of the welterweight world title he won after beating the Filipino Manny Pacquiao this year for failing to comply with rules, the World Boxing Organization said on Monday.
Mayweather, who improved to 48-0 by beating Pacquiao in May, missed a deadline in which he had to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee from the fight and vacate the junior middleweight title he also held, the W.B.O. said in a statement.
The W.B.O. said it is against rules for boxers to hold world titles in multiple weight classes and that Mayweather had to indicate which weight division he would retain.