By John F. McKenna (McJack): Undefeated superstar WBA middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) has spent years cultivating his bad boy persona. And to be honest “Money May” has been very effective in selling his bad boy image to the media and his legions of fans who pay big bucks to watch his fights.

So it came as somewhat of a surprise to his followers when after serving just 13 days of an 87 day sentence at the Clark County Detention Center (CCDC) that Floyd came up with all kinds of reasons as to why he should be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.

The Boston Star Herald.com reported that the reasons Floyd wanted out early ranged from him not liking the tap water to not being able to maintain his normal workout schedule in the manner he is accustomed to. Mayweather through his attorney’s has said that his treatment at the CCDC where he is kept in isolation 23 hours a day is inhumane.

John Donahue, deputy chief of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in the Detention Services Division wasted no time in refuting Mayweather’s claims of being treated inhumanely. Part of Mayweather’s complaint was that he was only consuming 800 calories a day. Donahue would have none of Floyd’s claims stating that the CCDC is required to provide 2800 calories of food a day to its inmates but Mayweather chooses not to eat the food provided for him.

Clark County judge Melissa Saragosa in denying Floyd’s request for an early release stated that his issues were self inflicted. Mayweather physician Dr. Robert Voy stated that the conditions Floyd is enduring while in jail are threatening his career and could result in his having to retire from boxing earlier than he had anticipated.

Donahue stated however that Mayweather refuses to exercise in his cell or during his one hour a day time in the prison recreation area.

Mayweather had originally been scheduled to report to the CCDC in early January, but he was able to convince the judge that his sentence should be delayed until June 1 because he had already reserved the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas for May 5. Floyd wound up defeating Miguel Cotto on May 5, taking his WBA light middleweight title. The Mayweather – Cotto fight brought in an excess of $100 million dollars to the Las Vegas economy.

Floyd is known to be a master trash talker in the boxing world. But the bad boy persona he has worked so long and hard to refine took a huge hit this week. And even some of his staunchest supporters are chiding him and saying enough already. One of the arguments raised by his attorney was that Mayweather was sinking into depression. The anger issues that he had been able to dissipate through his normal work out regimen, was at risk of rising to the surface.

The question begs to be asked, I wonder how Mayweather’s fellow prisoners feel about his sorry plight and how it differs from their own.