Money Belt on the line at MayMac said to be worth over one million dollars

Mayweather is undefeated as a prizefighter, has won world championships in five weight divisions, lineal championships in four weight divisions, and has won fifteen world titles. But in September of 2015 he retired, making all titles vacant. When he returns on Saturday vs. Conor McGregor, there will be a belt on the line however, an expensive one.

WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman unveiled the belt at Wednesday’s pre-bout press conference, and said The Money Belt contains 3,360 diamonds, 600 sapphires, 300 emeralds, three pounds of gold, and is made of imported Italian alligator leather.

The WBC created something similar with 3,017 emeralds for Mayweather’s 2015 match vs. Manny Pacquiao, that was said to be worth $1,000,000. The Money Belt is believed to be worth more still, if boxing alphabet me are to be believed.

[The Money Belt] cost a fortune, said Sulaiman to Marc Raimondi for MMA Fighting. It cost many, many, many hours of work of many artisans. It is just a beautiful piece of work. It’s a lot of money. I don’t really have a figure. It’s a priceless piece for an historic event.

This is a monumental event in the boxing ring with an icon like Floyd Mayweather, who has been 19 years champion of the WBC. He has a tremendous relationship with the organization. We are always trying to put some extra recognition and I believe this fight has all the merit to have a special award for the winner.

The perfect title for this is a ‘money belt’. We’re just proud to have a little bit of history for this event.

This is a fight that falls out of the box. It’s what life is about, to break paradigms, to bring change and important new things. This Saturday the 26th, millions and millions of people who follow MMA and millions and millions of people who just want to watch a world-renowned event are going to be watching boxing. And that in itself is a great accomplishment for the sport.

So whoever has negative comments about the event, of course they have the right to express their opinion and have their own opinion. But I feel it is a great event for boxing, because it will showcase and show millions of people the great art of self-defense, the great art of boxing, which has been developed throughout the years.

Sulaiman said the belt would appear at the weigh-ins and would go to the winner. But he would’t say where it going in between.

If I told you, I would have to disappear you, said Sulaiman laughing. It’s in a safe place, it’s in a secure vault.