By John F. McKenna (McJack): Just 12 days into his 87 day jail sentence for domestic battery, undefeated boxing superstar World Boxing Association (WBA) light middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) has had enough and predictably wants out.
“Pretty Boy” is seeking to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest. Floyd through his high power attorney Richard Wright maintains that the conditions he is enduring while in Clark County Detention Center (CCDC) in Nevada are “inhumane” and that his professional boxing career is on the line.
One of Mayweather’s complaints is that he is being kept isolated in his cell for 23 hours of every day. Floyd also maintains that his physical condition after only twelve days in jail is already starting to deteriorate and that if he is forced to serve out the remainder of his sentence at the CCDC his entire boxing career will be jeopardized.
According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Mayweather is having a very difficult time adjusting to prison life and appears to be sliding into depression. Attorney Wright filed a 35 page motion outlining just some of Floyd’s problems and how house arrest would remedy them.
The motion contained affidavits by co-manager Leonard Ellerbe and personal physician Dr. Robert Voy In the motion Wright maintains that at the very least the 35 year old Mayweather’s career will be shortened. The motion also claims that “Money May” has not been able to train as he normally would, and that his muscle definition and tone is off. His musculature has already shown some signs of atrophy according to the motion.
First of all before we all get too teary eyed at Floyd’s predicament and collectively give him a big chorus of “the boo hoos” isn’t that what everyone who is incarcerated goes through? And let’s be for real, Mayweather as special as he is, was busted for beating up the mother of his children in front of the kids.
Floyd already received a pass when he was initially supposed to report to the CCDC last January. The date was extended to June 1 when Mayweather’s legal team convinced the judge that he had already reserved the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for a fight with the “little fella”. The fight the courts were told would benefit Las Vegas big time because of all the revenue it would bring to Las Vegas.
Now Floyd is back again less than two weeks after reporting to the CCDC for his incarceration. It was all so predictable. It is hard to fathom how Mayweather’s health could have taken such a nose dive in less than two weeks. But as they say “Money” talks and Floyd has demonstrated in the past that he has it to burn.
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