LAS VEGAS, June 2: Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr was booked into a Las Vegas jail to serve a 90-day sentence for domestic violence against an ex-girlfriend, a term that was previously postponed so the welterweight fighter could compete in a bout.
Mayweather, a flamboyant athlete regarded as the best defensive boxer of his generation, was issued standard dark blue prison garb and slippers and will be kept apart from the jail’s general population of more than 3,000 other inmates, Las Vegas police said yesterday.
The unbeaten Mayweather had the start of his jail term delayed in January so he could fight in a May 5 super welterweight bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, where he came through 12 bruising rounds to prevail over Puerto Rican boxer Miguel Cotto.
After that contest, improving his professional record to 43-0, Mayweather discussed a possible fight with Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines, his rival for the mythical title of the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter.
Fans have been clamoring for a Mayweather-Pacquiao matchup despite such stumbling blocks as Mayweather’s insistence that Pacquiao agree to blood testing and disagreement over how the revenue from the fight should be divided.
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