Floyd Mayweather Jail Sentence Postponed
Things are looking up for Floyd Mayweather, at least for the time being. According to the Associated Press, Mayweather does not have to report to jail today and begin serving his 90-day sentence.
Instead, the judge has granted him a postponement of the sentence, under the assumption that he will be able to train for an upcoming May 5th “mega fight”, in the words of manager Leonard Ellerbe.
The judge, Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa, made the decision and granted Mayweather his postponement this after hearing an argument not only for Mayweather and his obligations, such as already putting a contract in place to host a fight on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, but also for the economic impact of Mayweather fighting to the community and region.
According to Mayweather’s legal team, his last 7 fights have brought in more than $1 billion in revenue to the Las Vegas community, and his May 5th date would bring in more than $100 million.
So now, everyone’s attention of course immediately goes back to the issue of whether or not we’ll see Mayweather take on Manny Pacquiao, and whether or not we’ll see Pacquiao vs. Mayweather in 2012. The 90-day jail sentence had left that all but impossible, but that’s an obstacle that has been removed for the time being.
Pacquiao however has already been hearing proposals for future opponents, none of which included Mayweather. The four opponents being publicly discussed for Pacquiao have been Timothy Bradley, Juan Manuel Marquez, Miguel Cotto and Lamont Peterson. Now we’ll see how eager and open Bob Arum and Top Rank are to get a fight with Mayweather done for May 5th, or if they’ll say too bad, or so what, to Mayweather.
Mayweather cruised away from the courtroom in his nearly $300k car, a brand new white Bentley Mulsanne, which he showed a picture of on Twitter the other day. That came after the pictures of the half a million in betting earnings he took in from college football games.
Bit of a different lifestyle than the three months in an 8×10 cell.
Ultimately, this is a good thing for boxing fans. Mayweather temporarily avoids jail, and we get to keep our fingers crossed that May 5th is going to be a day to remember for fight fans.
