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Sports July 7, 2015

Mayweather Is Stripped Of WBO Belt He Won From Pacquiao

Floyd Mayweather Jr. missed a deadline to decide which title belt he wants to keep, says the World Boxing Organization.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. missed a deadline to decide which title belt he wants to keep, says the World Boxing Organization. Al Bello/Getty Images hide caption

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Saying that Floyd Mayweather missed a deadline to pay a fee related to his May 2 win over Manny Pacquiao, the World Boxing Organization has stripped Floyd of the welterweight title he won in that fight.

Mayweather “let come and go the 4:30 p.m. ET Friday deadline by which he had to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee from the May 2 fight (for which he earned more than $220 million),” reports ESPN’s Dan Rafael, who also notes that the WBO is also trying to enforce its rules against boxers holding titles in different weight classes.

Representatives for Mayweather, who remains undefeated in his pro boxing career, tell ESPN that they’re weighing their options.

The WBO title will now go to Timothy Bradley Jr., who had been named the interim title holder after he won a June 27 fight for the welterweight belt.

The status of that June bout was thrown into uncertainty after Mayweather seemed to change his mind about vacating his titles — something he pledged to do after defeating Pacquiao.

“Give other fighters a chance,” Mayweather said back in May. “I’m not greedy. I’m a world champion in two different weight classes. It’s time to let other fighters fight for the belt.”

ESPN’s Rafael says that Mayweather, 38, “plans to next fight Sept. 12 — the opponent has not been announced — to complete his six-fight contract with Showtime/CBS. After that, the 38-year-old has said, he plans to retire.”

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Entertainment July 6, 2015

Today in Movie Culture: 'Inside Out' Emotions In Other Movies, 1950s Version of 'Ant-Man' and More

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Movie Trailer Redo of the Day:

In case you didn’t already get the connection between Inside Out and Inception, this trailer for the former with the music from the latter will bring you up to speed (via Film School Rejects):

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Movie Mash-Ups of the Day:

Speaking of Inside Out, what if we could see other movie characters’ emotions, a la the new Pixar movie? Slate gives us examples for Kindergarten Cop, Network and Shaun of the Dead:

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Time-Travel Movie Franchise Clarity of the Day:

Make more sense out of the Terminator movies before or after watching Terminator Genisys with this handy detailed diagram of the franchise’s plot and timelines using straws. Click on the image to see it all large and up close at Slate.

Movie Retro-fication of the Day:

Vulture shows us what Ant-Man would look like had it been made in the 1950s, mashing-up color-drained clips from the Marvel movie with oldies like The Incredible Shrinking Man (via Geek Tyrant):

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Star Wars Cosplay of the Day:

With a new Star Wars movie presenting at Comic-Con this weekend, we might as well look at some Star Wars cosplay, specifically an amazing female Sith by MissSinister (via Fashionably Geek):

Movie Poster Alternate of the Day:

Some movie postes are so iconic and well-designed that they’re not only recognizable but worth hanging on your wall without the title or main imagery on them. Here’s one for Jaws, and you can find more like this at The Film Stage blog.

Supercut of the Day:

Feel the good vibrations of the editing of this supercut of Mark Wahlberg movies:

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Fan Art of the Day:

Every time I think the fan art inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road can’t get any better, something like this Muppet mash-up by Justin Ponsor comes along (via Kristen Howard):

Medium Mash-Up Fan Art of the Day:

You don’t get more highbrow in your silly fan art mash-up stuff than combining classic art with Criterion Collection Blu-rays for classic foreign films. Below, Michelangelo Antonioni‘s L’Avventura meets Frederick Morgan’s “The Proposal.” See more of Eisen Bernard’s collages at Indiewire.

Classic Cartoon of the Day:

Dave and Max Fleischer‘s The Clown’s Little Brother, an installment of their Out of the Inkwell series of animation and live-action hybrids starring Koko the Clown, turns 95 today. Watch it in full below:

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