Terence Crawford is undisputed super middleweight champion no more. Crawford was stripped of the WBC championship after WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman claimed the fighter had failed to pay sanctioning fees for two consecutive fights, including his career-defining win over Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in September.

"He forgot how he got to make $50 million," Sulaiman said. "It's very unfortunate that the WBC did not even receive an acknowledgement of receipt nor anything in response to any of those communications."

Sulaiman claimed Crawford failed to pay $300,000 in sanctioning fees for the Alvarez fight, which came after also failing to pay sanctioning fees for his August 2024 win over Israil Madrimov. Sulaiman said that the sanctioning body was not looking for its standard 3% fee, but instead

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