Floyd Jr. can't watch Pacquiao-Bradley fight from jail

[url]Floyd Mayweather Jr. can't watch Pacquiao-Bradley fight from jail[/url]

[url]LAS VEGAS[/url] -- [url]Floyd Mayweather Jr.[/url] won't be able to see rival Manny Pacquiao's pay-per-view fight Saturday night against [url]Timothy Bradley[/url], but he will have time to read his mail.

As inmate No. 1363917 at the Clark County jail in [url]Las Vegas[/url], Mayweather doesn't have access to a television, computer or telephone in the small solo jail cell where on Friday he was beginning the second week of a three-month sentence in a domestic violence case.

He has been getting lots of mail since someone posted his inmate number and address on Twitter, [url]Las Vegas[/url] police Officer Bill Cassell said.

Jail mail is screened, and Cassell told The Associated Press that some photos to Mayweather have been confiscated as "inappropriate." "He's gotten some mail and a couple of books. There has been some contraband that has been stopped," Cassell said. He wouldn't describe the photos in detail.

Mayweather's lawyers in [url]Las Vegas[/url] and his adviser, Leonard Ellerbe, didn't immediately respond Friday to messages from the AP.

As a high-profile inmate, he'll be kept separate from the other 3,200 inmates in the high-rise Clark County Detention Center, Cassell said.

"We don't want to have an opportunity for someone who wants to make a name for himself to challenge him," the police spokesman said.

Mayweather has been getting a little more than 30 minutes twice a day in a couple of barren recreation areas in the administrative segregation unit, Cassell said. His cell, no larger than 7-by-12 feet, has barely enough floor space for pushups and situps.

 

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