It was a technical and strategy landslide. No other way of looking at it.
[size=3]Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr has been sentenced to jail after pleading guilty in connection with domestic violence.[/size]
[size=3]Mayweather was given a 90-day prison term after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges.[/size]
[size=3]Las Vegas judge Melissa Saragosa also ordered the 34-year-old to complete 100 hours of community service and pay a £1,600 fine.[/size]
[size=3]Mayweather’s guilty plea avoids a trial on felony allegations that he hit his ex-girlfriend and threatened two of their children during an argument at her home in September 2010.[/size]
[size=3]Defence lawyer Karen Winckler argued that the public would benefit more if Mayweather performed 100 hours of community service with children, instead of being jailed.[/size]
[size=3]Ms Winckler said her client was considering an appeal before he is due to report to jail on January 6.[/size]
I hear they like “pretty boys” in jail
He’ll serve 2 days they think.
Joke.
Jesus i hope he gets a hiding some day soon.
So does the rest of the world. That’s why his fights sell so well. Everyone wants to be watching the night Floyd Mayweather gets beaten. Problem is, no one can do it.
+1.
I actually find Mayweather is very entertaining in the build up to fights and his persona sells them for sure, the Mayweather family circus is also a good laugh. No doubting his utter cuntishness at the same time though.
Amir Khan / Golden Boy Promotions are coming across as right cunts in this so called “mystery man” story.
You lost the fight. Get over it
Mayweather not going inside until 1 June, so it allows him fight on 5 May.
Hopefully it’s Pac-Man he fights on 5/5
Let’s Get It On
Put back because of the contractual agreements he has for May 5th. That’s why he booked the date the clever cunt. Clever lawyers anyway.
He won’t be fighting Pacquiao I’d say. At this stage he wants it, and Pacquiao has always wanted it, but Bob Arum doesn’t. I think he’s already said that Manny won’t be ready until June. The whole thing has lost its lustre anyway. People are sick of hearing about it. They should have fought two years ago, or last year at the latest. At this stage, it could be argued that both fighters don’t have much left in them and the third Pacquiao/Marquez fight has created huge doubt that Manny could match Floyd. It would still be great to see it, but the fact that it hasn’t so far reflects just how fucked up boxing is.
On that note, some craic with Amir Khan’s latest conspiracy claims.
Khan is some fucking cunt. England has produced quite a few excellent immigrant or sons of immigrants fighters over the years, but there was always a sense of pride and honour with them. This fella is a fucking joke, and an embarrassment.
not sure about this, but encouraging.
More bullshit from the Pacquiao camp. The judge postponed Floyd’s jail sentence on the basis of contractual agreements he had with the MGM Grand for May 5th. Is he now supposed to break the contractual agreements that are the only reason his sentence was postponed in the first place?
Pacquiao’s management are really starting to look desperate. First Arum states that he was looking into a fight for Pacquiao on May 5th, then Floyd becomes available and suddenly Manny won’t have recovered from a cut he got against Marquez until June. Manny himself releases a statement saying that there’s no problem with a cut and then they decide they want to change the venue and date, to the day before Floyd’s jail term starts no less.
The blame for this thing not happening has been on different sides over the past 2-3 years, but right now there’s no doubt that Pacquiao’s people are trying to duck the fight. Floyd wants the fight (called Manny out on facebook yesterday - http://www.facebook.com/floydmayweather/posts/158164300959552). Manny wants the fight. If the Pacquiao camp don’t make it happen it will really expose them as just protecting their cash cow.
Bob Arum is a sneaky Jew.
true dat
Is there any other sort??
Ali is 70 today.
This is an interesting clip of him talking a guy down off a ledge:
Cuban amateur legend Guillermo Rigondeaux, better known in Ireland as the guy who gave Willie Casey a hiding, is fighting on Friday night. If he wins, there’s a good chance of him featuring in a very big fight by the end of the year, possibly even a match-up with Nonito Donaire.
Amir Khan insists he still wants a rematch with Lamont Peterson despite dramatically withdrawing his appeal against his controversial defeat.
The International Boxing Federation announced just hours before the hearing was scheduled to start in Newark, New Jersey that Khan’s team had changed their minds.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer later claimed that he felt Khan’s side of the argument would not be heard.
‘You have certain officials who were going to be there telling their side of the story, and you have others which were not going to be there, and I think that the bottom line is that that would result in a one-sided story, and I have shared my views on this particular subject with the IBF President Daryl Peoples a couple of weeks ago,’ Schaefer told RingTV.
'I told him that if he was in fact going to have certain people there, and others not, then that does not sound to me as if there was a fully transparent meeting because only part of the story was going to to be told. So I to not see any reason to participate in such a process. That’s basically what it is.
'It would have been a one-sided hearing where not all of the parties would have been there to tell the story. It would have been there to tell the story. It would have been a one-sided story. They were going to include only partial representation of the fight’s officials at the proposed IBF hearing.
‘So we feel that it makes no sense to go forward, but to, instead, use the time and the energy to focus on Amir’s next fight. So we have decided to withdraw from the hearing and to focus on Amir’s next fight.’
A statement on Khan’s official site said that his camp hoped a rematch could be agreed.
Mystery: The IBF were going to look at the role played by Mustafa Ameen (left)
'Golden Boy Promotions and Team Khan are pleased to have been vindicated by the World Boxing Association’s (WBA) recent decision to mandate an immediate rematch and still hope that Mr. Peterson will honor earlier statements in which he asserted that he would be happy to agree to a rematch.
‘In that vein, Golden Boy Promotions and Team Khan would agree to a 50/50 split of worldwide revenues derived from a rematch (including those derived from the United Kingdom) should Mr. Peterson agree to participate and hope that this will be both financially and professionally satisfying to Mr. Peterson and his team.’
So-called ‘mystery man’ Ameen was due to speak at the hearing. However, arguably the most credible witness was not due to be present in Newark, New Jersey, with the IBF confirming that Welsh was not going to be there to explain what Ameen was doing or saying, because he is a representative of another governing body and therefore not answerable to them.
The IBF said the request was made by attorney Arnold Joseph on behalf of Golden Boy Promotions.
'For now, it’s off, and they’ve withdrawn the appeal. We do not know if they will want to do it over again.
‘As of now, basically, what it means is that what was going to take place tomorrow is done.’
Change of heart: Khan had already arrived in New York for the hearing
When asked if Peterson will remain the IBF titleholder, the organisation said: ‘Absolutely.’
In losing to Peterson, Khan relinquished both his IBF and WBA belts, but the WBA last week ordered a rematch to take place within 180 days after Khan’s claims of wrongdoing at ringside in Washington on December 10.
Khan complained to both the WBA and IBF after losing his light-welterweight titles to Peterson in the American’s native Washington on December 10.
He highlighted several grievances, chiefly referee Joe Cooper’s deduction of two points, the judges’ scoring of the bout and the unexplained presence of ‘mystery man’ Mustafa Ameen at ringside.
Khan, along with father Shah and business manager Asif Vali, flew from Britain to the United States ahead of the hearing in Newark, New Jersey.
Khan’s team has demanded answers to a number of questions - not least what role Ameen played when interacting with ringside officials.
One possible explanation for the withdrawal of the appeal could be that Golden Boy and Peterson’s team have come to an agreement over a rematch between themselves.
That, however, would not explain why Khan’s team are remaining silent on the matter. Neither they nor Golden Boy Promotions were answering calls on Tuesday night.
Khan has made a right cunt of himself. No one likes him anyway though so it hardly matters, He should win the the rematch. Could be a very big deal at welterweight yet. Once Pacweather is gone there’s going to be a good group of fighters looking to rule that division.