Floyd To Remain In Jail

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s request that he be released from jail because the low-quality food and water have threatened his health was denied by a Las Vegas judge who says he should eat and drink what is being given to him behind bars.

Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa wrote in her late Wednesday decision that water has been made available to Mayweather around the clock and the only reason he isn't eating properly is because he refuses to eat the provided meals. Saragosa said Mayweather's complaints that he is unable to exercise in jail are also unfounded.

"While the physical training areas and times provided to (Mayweather) may not be consistent with his prior regimen, he is indeed provided sufficient space and time for physical activity if he so chooses," Saragosa wrote.

A mere 10 days after Mayweather turned himself in to begin his three-month sentence, his legal team filed an emergency motion Monday asking the court to put him under house arrest or move him into the general jail population -- something that jail officials had avoided to protect the celebrity fighter. The motion claimed the undefeated champion might never fight again because he was getting out of shape in solitary confinement.

Mayweather lawyer Richard Wright didn't immediately return a phone message late Wednesday. Wright said earlier this week that he was not seeking special treatment for the 35-year-old fighter.

Mayweather pleaded guilty last year to reduced domestic battery charges stemming from an attack on his former girlfriend while two of their children watched. The plea deal allowed him to avoid trial on felony charges that could have gotten Mayweather up to 34 years in prison if he was convicted. Mayweather was sentenced Dec. 22, but was allowed to remain free long enough to make a Cinco de Mayo weekend fight.

Mayweather's legal team told the court this week that his personal physician, Dr. Robert Voy, visited the jail Friday and determined the fighter had lost muscle tone. Voy estimated Mayweather was consuming fewer than 800 calories a day instead of his usual 3,000 or 4,000 calories. Mayweather also wasn't drinking enough because he wasn't allowed bottled water and doesn't enjoy tap water.

"I am concerned about Floyd withdrawing, developing anger he cannot dissipate through the usual means of dedicated exercise and training," Voy wrote in an affidavit. "Boxing has been Mr. Mayweather's life since he was a young man and we need champions of this type to continue to their natural retirement and hopefully their contributions to society thereafter."

Prosecutor Lisa Luzaich scoffed at the complaints during a court hearing Tuesday.

"It's jail," Luzaich told the court. "Where did he think he was going? The Four Seasons?"

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I gotta admit. That made me laugh.

Oh Mayweather.

 

[Cowboy_Shawn]

Mayweather is an idiot.

It's prison, dummy. Did he think he was going off to a 5 star resort or something?

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

Mayweather is an idiot.

It's prison, dummy. Did he think he was going off to a 5 star resort or something?

Mayweather is a clown. Total disgrace to boxing legends like the guy in your avatar.

 

[casmith07]

Mayweather is a clown. Total disgrace to boxing legends like the guy in your avatar.

Add Mayweather to the list.

Boxing was finished when Lennox Lewis retired. Hell, you can make an argument it was finished before that.

 

[a_minimalist]

Add Mayweather to the list.

Boxing was finished when Lennox Lewis retired. Hell, you can make an argument it was finished before that.

It was finished when Tyson bit the ear of Holyfield. Nothing could ever live up to it after that.

 

[casmith07]

It was finished when Tyson bit the ear of Holyfield. Nothing could ever live up to it after that.

I can definitely agree with that. That was the all-time low point.

 

[Yeagermeister]

It was finished when Tyson bit the ear of Holyfield. Nothing could ever live up to it after that.

The first and last sports PPV I have ever bought

 

[casmith07]

The first and last sports PPV I have ever bought

The last one that I bought was Mike Tyson's last fight against some D-rate Irish journeyman where Tyson just quit in the 8th, I believe. I felt awful for Mike. After seeing his Oprah interview, I felt even worse for him.

 

[jimmy40]

The first and last sports PPV I have ever bought

the first and only one I ever saw, didn't pay for it though.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Boxing was officially dead the moment that Tyson bit Hollyfields ear.

That was the end of anything that was ever going to be good in boxing.

The sport is nothing more than a joke at this point.

 

[Aikbach]

So many of these heavy weights are hoodlums.

 

[silverbear]

There's a moral to the story-- if you beat your wife, you're gonna eat crappy food for a few months...

 

[silverbear]

So many of these heavy weights are hoodlums.

Mayweather's not a heavyweight, pal...

 

[nyc-cowboy]

WOW Floyd, you went from a talking s@#t to being a punk arse, your doing less than 3 months not 3 years.

 

[dez_for_prez]

It's prison, dummy. Did he think he was going off to a 5 star resort or something?

Sadly this is the way most celeberties get treated in our society.