Allan Fox: Showtime will be televising the Floyd Mayweather Jr. documentary “30 days in May” tonight at 10 p/m. ET/PT. the documentary documents Mayweather’s 30 days he spent in a Las Vegas, Nevada jail last year for a domestic disturbance.

It seems to me that Showtime would be better off doing a documentary on Mayweather’s upcoming fight with Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero rather than going over old ground that would be better off forgotten by Mayweather and the boxing public. If the idea is to help promote the fight it doesn’t seem to work.

In the highlights of the documentary, it’s pretty much just Mayweather rambling on about how he hated being behind bars and how he was after getting out. Wasting a documentary on this subject seems a little overboard. It’s interesting for about 2 minutes and then after that it gets boring because boxing fans have to continue to listen to Mayweather discuss how happy he is that he’s not locked up.

Whoever came up with the idea for this documentary really needs to step back and look at what boxing fans really care about. It’s not hearing Mayweather talk for 30 minutes about his jail time; fans want to hear about what he’s going to do to defeat Guerrero on May 4th. Boxing fans want to hear about how Mayweather is going to improve from his less than impressive performance in his last fight against Miguel Cotto last May.

Fans want to hear about whether Mayweather feels he’s still got what it takes to be a top fighter at 36, and fans want to hear about who Mayweather will face next if he can get past Guerrero on May 4th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. A documentary on those types of things is interesting, but not one that drones on for 30 minutes about Mayweather’s incarceration. That’s just overkill to the extreme.