By Allan Fox: As expected, the World Boxing Organization championship committee has chosen to strip Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) of his WBO welterweight title on Monday for failing to pay $200,000 in sanctioning fees following his victory over former WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao last May.

Mayweather no longer is the WBO 147lb champion. Mayweather says that he never received his WBO title, so how can he be giving up his WBO title when never even got it in the first place.

Mayweather tipped off the WBO that he would be giving up his WBO title when he said after his fight with Pacquiao that he’d be vacating the belt so that the younger fighters could fight for it. Mayweather would have still gotten the belt if he’d paid the $200K that the WBO was asking. They also were asking for him to give up his WBA and WBC junior middleweight titles. I’m not sure why the WBO has a problem with their champions holding other belts in other weight divisions. As long as they’re getting their sanctioning fees, it shouldn’t matter if their champions hold other world titles.

“Other fighters need to get a chance” and “I’m not greedy. It’s time to let other fighters fight for the belt,” Mayweather said after the Pacquiao fight.

This is what the WBO said on their twitter page about Mayweather: “For those asking, the WBO has the utmost respect for Mr. Floyd Mayweather and arrangements have been made for him to receive a belt. Mr. Mayweather may appeal this decision to the WBO Complaints and Grievances Committee within 14 days. Of course Mr. Mayweather will be receiving a belt in recognition of his victory over Pac. WBO World Championship Committee Resolution on the matter of @FloydMayweather: http://goo.gl/SLnHQo.”

Floyd has been stripped of the WBO welterweight title per its championship committee vote on Monday. #boxing

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) July 6, 2015

Mayweather can appeal the decision by the WBO, but it’s unlikely that they’ll reverse it unless he complies with their resolutions. He would likely have to vacate his two junior middleweight titles and then pay the $200,000 sanctioning fee that was due last Friday at 4:30 p.m. ET.

If Mayweather has no intention of keeping the WBO belt, or his titles, it’s hard to understand why he’d even want to bother trying to go through the hassle of keeping the belt. He might as well forget about it and focus on looking for an opponent for his September 12th fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.