By Chris Williams: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. will finally be getting released from the Clark County Detention Center tomorrow from Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather has been holed up in solitary confinement in jail since his incarceration started on June 1st for domestic abuse charges.
However, Mayweather Jr. has done his time and is ready to get out and resume his successful boxing and promotional career. Mayweather’s good buddy 50 Cent [Curtis Jackson] started up a new promotional company recently called TMT Promotions, which is a joint venture with Mayweather. They’ve already signed up Billy Dib, Yuriorkis Gamboa and Andre Dirrell. Andre Berto may be next to be signed up. That company could be huge in another 10 years and it may surpass the two big promotional giants that dominate boxing today – Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions.
Mayweather has a lot of options for his next fight. Golden Boy Promotions would love to see him fight one of their top fighters WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez in December. However, I don’t know that Mayweather Jr. is going to be ready for a really tough fight for his first fight out of jail. When a fighter has been stuck in a cell for two months they tend to lose a lot of their conditioning through inactivity. For this reason I think Mayweather Jr. will need an easy tune-up fight. Golden Boy can still be of service for Mayweather by offering up Danny Garcia or Robert Guerrero to be sacrificed so that Mayweather can get a nice tune-up without having to work hard. Either of those guys would be a nice easy fight for Mayweather to get him ready for a more serious challenge against someone like Alvarez.
It’s not even worth mentioning Manny Pacquiao, because a fight between him and Mayweather probably will never happen as long as Pacquiao feels he deserves a 50-50 deal. I don’t see Pacquiao even budging from that stance even if he continues to take losses. That’s why it’s not even worth it for Mayweather to bother.
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