By Jason Kim: Unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. will be unable to scout on his nemesis WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao when he defends his title on Saturday night against Tim Bradley at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 35-year-old Mayweather is busy serving out an 87-day jail term at the Clark County detention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it’s highly unlikely that Pacquiao’s pay-per-view bout will be piped into Mayweather so he can specifically study his rival to take notes. Mayweather has already served three days, and he’s got a possible 84 days left before he can be released.
There’s a good chance that Mayweather will be released early between two and three weeks before the end of his term if he doesn’t get any infractions against him in the next couple of months. Getting out on good behavior is a strong possibility as long as Mayweather doesn’t act out if he’s not treated with the kind of respect that he’s grown accustomed to. The chances are high that someone is going to rub Mayweather the wrong way, especially if he agrees to being released in the main population of the jail.
If Mayweather can get out of jail early, there’s a chance he could be back in the ring by as early as November. However, it will be interesting if he chooses to do so, because he took a lot of punishment recently in his 12 round decision win over WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto last month, and that win may make Mayweather gun-shy about wanting to get back in the ring.
All the fighters that were previously assumed to be fairly easy wins for Mayweather, you have to reconsider that after watching how average Mayweather looked against Cotto. Maybe he can still beat guys like Amir Khan, Saul Alvarez and Manny Pacquiao, but you can no longer say that with any degree of certainty now. Mayweather looks slower both with his hands and his feet, and he’ll take punishment if he faces one of those guys even if he does win.
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