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Police say Mayweather is suspect in domestic violence incident
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Boxer accused of assault by former girlfriend
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A former girlfriend of Floyd Mayweather Jr. is alleging the boxer assaulted her early Thursday morning at her residence.
Las Vegas police confirmed Mayweather is the suspect in a domestic violence incident with ex-girlfriend Josie Harris, who has three children with Mayweather.
She was taken to Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center just after 3 a.m. Thursday, a family member said. She was treated and released.
The incident happened at Harris' residence in the 3800 block of Tropical Vine Street, the family member said.
Police were trying to find Mayweather to interview him about the allegations, said Lt. Rob Lundquist, who oversees the Domestic Violence Detail.
"Right now there's allegations of domestic violence, and we're currently investigating that," Lundquist said.
A message left Thursday with Mayweather's criminal defense lawyer, Richard Wright, was not returned.
On Thursday afternoon, Harris filed for a temporary protection order against Mayweather at Family Court, the family member said.
Harris has accused Mayweather of domestic violence in the past, only to recant her story or stop cooperating with police.
In December 2003, she told Las Vegas police that he assaulted her outside a nightclub during an argument over another woman.
But at the July 2005 trial, Harris testified that she had lied about being beaten. She told the jury that Mayweather was a "teddy bear" who had never laid a hand on her.
The jury acquitted Mayweather of the felony domestic violence charge.
He was charged with a felony because it was his third domestic violence case in seven years. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor domestic violence charges.
In 2005, he was convicted in the unprovoked beating of two women in the Ra nightclub at Luxor and received a suspended one-year jail sentence and an order to undergo counseling.
Earlier this year, one of Mayweather's bodyguards was arrested and charged with shooting at another man in a Las Vegas skating rink parking lot. The shooting happened after Mayweather confronted the victim over a text message from a few months earlier.
Mayweather, 33, is undefeated with 25 knockouts in 41 professional fights. His last fight was May 1, a 12-round unanimous decision over Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand Garden.
Mayweather currently does not hold a world championship boxing title but has won nine championships in five different weight classes.
Last week, he made headlines for a 10-minute rant on UStream video in which he attacked rival boxer Manny Pacquiao by using a gay slur and taking shots at Pacquiao's Asian heritage.
Mayweather was rated by The Ring Magazine as the No. 1 "pound for pound" fighter from July 18, 2005, to June 2008. The magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1998 and 2007, and the Boxing Writers Association of America selected him as Fighter of the Year in 2007.
Forbes magazine listed him second to Tiger Woods in its list of Richest and Powerful Sports Athletes of 2010 with earnings of $65 million.
Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission, which regulates all contests and exhibitions of unarmed combat within the state, said he knows details of the incident only from what he has read at LVRJ.com.
"I know nothing more than that," he said. "But we wouldn't comment on any ongoing investigation."
Review-Journal reporter Jeff Wolf contributed to this report. Contact reporter Mike Blasky at mblasky@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0283. Contact reporter Brian Haynes at bhaynes@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0281.
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THREE.... THREEEEEEEE children with this BABYMOMMA-HO???? She must be one GRRRRRReat piece of buttt--- BUTTTTTT She's nothin but a goldigginHO... Grand Larceny for taking a cell phone? Floyd pay for that cell phone! Floyd pay all her bills!! Now she givin it up to some other lazy-asssss slob? She deserve a hair pullin.
Well, has Metro found the little ex-girlfriend beater yet?
FLOYD MAYWEATHER IS A NOBODY TRYING TO BECOME A SOMEBODY.
Looks like 41-1 now without stepping in a ring. The loss is a knock out.
He couldn't punch himself out of this or even a paper bag. Manny is loving this news.
@Cam965. LMAO!!! Right on bro. He has an obvious history of violence against Woman, he has an over prevalent temper, his Entourage is of the same inequality as he promotes with his foul and uneducated mouth, and evidently, he is a coward for not fighting Pac Man. But this is despicable. You are one of the most feared men in the Boxing world, and you hit someone who is, by nature, less than you physically? Not to mention you are in top athletic, Olympic form. Shame on you. I hope you are convicted, and spend the next several years behind bars enjoying free Cable television, Air Conditioning, meals, (3 a day plus outside food), education, counseling, and what ever the Great Liberal State of Nevada can shell out at the tax payers expense. Find Jesus you walking void!
MAYWEATHER, BOY, YOU ARE SOMETHING ELSE! YOU WONT FIGHT MANNY PAQUIAO, BUT YET YOU GO OUT AND BEAT UP ON A WOMAN? HMMM THAT MAKES YOU A A COWARD!!!!! LOL
Mayweather vs Pacquiao. ..... It's okay to spew racist epithets if you are black. .....
Jackson and Sharpton, these phony reverends, prove it every day. .....
If Pacquiao had said it of Mayweather, he'd be crucified! ......
In today's world, it is the blacks that are racists. .....
Not "just another brick in the wall" but just another turd in the toilet! Thats how you sound!
Um "just another brick in the wall":
Mayweather was not raised in the "ghetto" (I know for a fact) and I dont believe OJ was either. So are you trying to say that since the athletes are black they had to be from the ghetto? Wow how racist can you be? So all of the white athletes who abuse their spouses were raised where? In a trailer park? Stupid!