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In the sport of boxing there is no commissioner to oversee the dozens of weight classes and organizations involved. There is no czar, no government oversight or council that can punish, readjust or overhaul a sport that is centuries old.

The only punishment that can be levied in the sport is the denial of a license to fight. You are not denying a fighter a right to earn his living, just telling him you can’t do it in their state, as is the prevue of state boxing commissions.

So a formality in 95 percent of boxing matches could have become a statement on the sport and those who have even a thread of control over it, the Nevada State Athletic Commission, could have said no to Floyd Mayweather.

Since 2001 Mayweather can factually be described as a serial batterer of women.

He has been arrested or cited seven times for assaulting five different women along with several other unreported incidents.

He beat his fiancee back in 2010 in front of his two children, even threatening their lives if they tried to get out of the house or report the incident to authorities. One month after serving a 60-day jail term in that case, police were called to another verbal altercation.

He punched one woman in the jaw outside of a Las Vegas nightclub simply because he did not like his fiancees taste in friends.

Mayweather has assaulted both women who he has had children with, been arrested for stalking, police obstruction as well as violating a protective order, but has done a remarkably miniscule amount of time in jail as punishment. He has gotten community service, suspended and reduced sentences and has been forced to serve time under house arrest.

The Ray Rice case and many others over the past few years have brought the issue of domestic violence to the forefront with a resounding backlash and disdain for those who strike women.

It does not seem to have slowed down Mayweather, though.

Mayweather’s payout from his fight with Manny Pacquiao will put him at over a half a billion dollars in ring earnings for his career. Two fights alone in 2014 netted him over $70 million.

Mayweather stands behind the excuse that during one of the assaults he “restrained a woman on drugs.” He also claims that because no picture or video evidence has surfaced in any of the attacks that they are all over exaggerated or never happened at all.

So here stands this serial batterer with enough factual evidence against him to warrant a permanent restraining order against the female gender for the next century.

Who can stop him from beating women? -No one. Who can stop him from making a living in their state just by following their own rules? -The state of Nevada. Did they read their own rules and tell Mayweather to head to Atlantic City or Macau to hold his mega-fight with Pacquiao? -Of course not.

The obvious rule they did not follow was suspending and revoking a license for anyone who “violated the laws of Nevada, except for minor traffic violations.”

The other more subjective rule they could have denied him a license with was citing him for “engaging in activity or practice that is detrimental to the best interests of unarmed combat.”

Instead, the Nevada State Athletic Commission saw the dollar signs, looked past Mayweather’s criminal record and passed on the chance deny him a boxing license for not following their rules and actually doing the right thing.

Rather than tell Mayweather to come back again in five years with a clean record, the commission green lighted what is possibly one of the biggest fights in the last quarter century.

The Nevada State Athletic Commission had their chance to make a statement on behalf of the sport and women around the country who cower in fear on a daily basis from men who beat them.

But the all mighty dollar won out over rules, morals and common sense.

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