The WBC won’t be taking Mayweather’s title away

By Boxing News - 12/26/2011 - Comments

By Chris Williams: The World Boxing Council reportedly won’t be stripping welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. while he’s in jail for 90 days starting in January 6th in Clark County for a domestic abuse charge.

The WBC, according to their rules, is supposed to strip champions of their WBC titles when they’re in jail. However, the WBC will go ahead back Mayweather and not take his title away in this case.

It’s kind of an easy choice for the WBC, though, because Mayweather is a huge star and the WBC would be shooting themselves in the foot to strip Mayweather of his title and miss out on the expensive sanctioning fees they can get when he fights.

Mayweather wouldn’t be hurt in the least even if the WBC did strip him of his title, because he doesn’t need a title to be recognized by boxing fans as being one of the best fighters in the sport. Titles are important for the lesser known fighters, but once a guy has built a name for himself like Mayeather, titles really don’t matter.

They actually hurt the more popular fighters more than help because it binds them to the organization and periodically forces them to fight less than popular fighters for mandatory defenses.

Currently, the WBC #1 contender is Devon Alexander and the #2 is Selcuk Aydin. Mayweather will need to lose this strap at some point when the WBC tries to force him to fight either of these guys because they’re not going to be big fights for Mayweather. He’s better dumping the belt when the times for him to have to fight one of them.Neither of them are huge stars and it just doesn’t make sense to keep the belt if he’s forced to fight one of them eventually.



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