Floyd wants out
Give me a break:
Twelve days into his three-month jail sentence on a domestic battery count, undefeated champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is asking to go home.
Or he contends he may never fight again.
An emergency motion obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal shows Mayweather's lawyers will ask Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa as early as today that the former Olympic bronze medal winner be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence on house arrest.
The 35-year-old's physical conditioning is deteriorating under the stress of being jailed at the Clark County Detention Center, and he is being held in "inhumane conditions," lawyer Richard Wright said in the motion filed Monday.
The 35-page motion, which included affidavits from Mayweather's co-manager, Leonard Ellerbe, and personal physician Dr. Robert Voy, stated that if Mayweather remained in jail, it would threaten his career. He had planned on fighting for at least two more years, according to the motion.
This from a guy who has already “retired” more than once. Who comes out of retirement, fights one or two fights, then takes off for eighteen months.
Voy determined Mayweather is consuming less than 800 calories a day. He is eating fruit, bread and energy bars bought at the commissary. Under his normal daily training routine the boxer consumes between 3,000 and 4,000 calories.
Voy also investigated Mayweather's ability to exercise. He found Mayweather has no room to exercise in jail, and he is not allowed to use the training areas because he is in isolation.
"After examining Mr. Mayweather, Dr. Voy was concerned with Mr. Mayweather's dehydrated appearance, his lack of muscle tone and his dry mucus membranes," the motion said.
Voy also "expressed deep concern for Mr. Mayweather's health and explained that any lengthy period of time with an inappropriate diet, coupled with lack of regular exercise, will most likely lead to irreversible damage to Mr. Mayweather's physique," the motion said.
Irreversible? I really doubt that. I think this is more of an emotional than physical issue.
Voy was concerned that Mayweather was withdrawing into depression and developing anger issues that he normally can "dissipate" through his exercise routine.
Oh, yeah, Floyd has proved in the past that he is very good at “dissipating” his anger issues. That’s why he’s in jail in the first place.
Wright said in the motion that Mayweather would be willing to work with jail officials to find "an appropriate location" to serve house arrest if the judge agreed. It's unclear whether the appropriate location would be Mayweather's 12,000-square-foot mansion in the ritzy Southern Highlands development. The mansion sports a walk-in closet bigger than his jail cell.
How convenient.
The problem seems to be that Mayweather thought he would be in isolation only temporarily, not for the entire sentence. For a highly active guy, I'm sure cooped up in a small room 23 hours a day is pretty tough. But, hey, that's jail. Of course it's unpleasant. But it's not like that there aren't exercises he could do even in a small space. And I doubt very much that even if he just lay in bed all day there would be any irreversible changes in his physique. People break limbs and spend weeks in traction, and are no worse for the wear when they get out of bed again.
Am I missing something here?
http://www.lvrj.com/news/mayweather-seeks-to-serve-jail-sentence-under-house-arrest-158523405.html
More on Bradley-Pacquiao:
Super middleweight boxing champion Andre Ward says that if he was Tim Bradley, he would give back the WBO welterweight title belt to Manny Pacquiao…
"It was a ridiculous decision," said Ward, who was at the fight. "Bradley lost the majority of the rounds. If it was me personally, I would admit defeat and say, 'Here's your belt back.'"
"There was nothing there, nothing to suggest it was even close," Ward said. "If you were being generous, extremely generous, maybe you could give Tim four rounds and he loses 8-4. I love Tim, he is a friend of mine, but he has to know that he lost that fight."
Read more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/12/SPCK1P0LFH.DTL#ixzz1xcYva31M
While I initially thought Bradley should do that, the problem is, where do you draw the line? There are a lot of fights where the majority of onlookers think the decision was wrong. Is the winner supposed to hand back the belt every time? Many people thought Marquez beat Pacquiao, should Pacquiao have given him the belt? How wrong does the decision have to appear?
Of course if the declared winner honestly feels he lost, then I think that would be a nice gesture. But Bradley apparently now says he watched film of the fight and thinks he won. Whether he really believes that or not, he clearly is not going to engage in an act of conscience.
Another writer has suggested that for title fights, there should be more judges, seven instead of three. This will make it very unlikely that by random chance the judges could come to a decision at odds with most other people. Of course if the sport is corrupt that won’t help (just make it more expensive to bribe the judges), but it would probably reduce the number of close decisions that seem wrong and are honestly made.
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