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Boxing Champ Floyd Mayweather Jailed
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr
11:47pm UK, Wednesday December 21, 2011
Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr has been jailed after pleading guilty in connection with domestic violence.
Mayweather was given a 90-day prison term after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges.
Las Vegas judge Melissa Saragosa also ordered the 34-year-old to complete 100 hours of community service and pay a $2,500 (£1,600) fine.
Mayweather's guilty plea avoids a trial on felony allegations that he hit his ex-girlfriend Josie Harris and threatened two of their children during an argument at her home in September 2010.
He was accused of assaulting her after she told him she was seeing another man, and he allegedly reacted by striking her, threatening his children and taking their mobile phones.
Ricky Hatton was one of Mayweather's victims in the ring
Judge Saragosa said the police report stated he had said he would make Harris "disappear".
Mayweather admitted hitting Harris and twisting her arm.
Judge Saragosa said that two of their children, ages nine and 10, also witnessed the attack.
Defence lawyer Karen Winckler argued that the public would benefit more if Mayweather performed 100 hours of community service with children, instead of being jailed.
Ms Winckler said her client was considering an appeal before he is due to report to jail on January 6.
Prosecutor Lisa Luzaich argued the sentence was too light. Mayweather could have received a sentence of 18 months in jail.
"He just continually gets himself into trouble and he is able to get himself out of it as well," she said.
"Essentially it is because he is who he is and is able to get away with everything.
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The only thing that's going to get this man's attention is incarceration.
Prosecutor Lisa Luzaich
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Mayweather, who is in line for a possible fight with Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao in May, is the current World Boxing Council welterweight champ and has a record of 42 wins and no losses.
Next week, he will plead guilty to a misdemeanour battery charge and pay a $1,000 fine following an altercation with a security guard in November of last year over parking rules near his mansion in a gated community.
Mayweather stopped fellow American Victor Ortiz in the fourth round in September to win the WBC welterweight title.
He plans to fight again on May 5 in Las Vegas against an undecided foe.
Boxing fans have longed to see Mayweather test himself against Pacquiao, the fighter many fans consider to have replaced him as the world pound-for-pound champion.