Mayweather and Pacquiao settle defamination lawsuit

oh, great, thanks for any details

 

Yeah good to know but it's still not gonna bring the mega fight closer to happening. :-(

 

Not too much information on it.. Says it was a confidential settlement and Mayweather Sr. lawyer told Associate Press on Tuesday documents have been signed and will be filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Loses Fight In Court To Manny Pacquiao

Mayweather has been ordered to pay Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao almost $114,000 in a defamation lawsuit that was filed in 2009.

The Washington Post reported that Pacquiao alleged that Mayweather defamed him by suggesting Pacquiao used performance-enhancing substances, a claim Pacquiao has denied.

“Calling a professional athlete a cheater is the most serious charge one can make,” the lawsuit said. “Accusing an athlete of using performance-enhancing drugs — however baseless and lacking in evidence — is toxic.”

Over the years, there has been great public interest in a fight between the two boxers, and world-renowned boxer Sugar Ray Leonard told the Daily Mail, “If Floyd doesn’t take on Manny he will have to live with that for the rest of his life.”

Yahoo sportswriter Kevin Iole said in a column that the two boxers haven't fought yet because Mayweather won't agree to a 50-50 split, and Pacquiao won't fight on those terms.

"If I offered him $30 million, he should be happy," Mayweather has told ESPN. "If I offered him $30 million and I didn't give money on the back end, why should I? He's with [Bob, Pacquiao's promoter] Arum right now, and they're having problems. It's obvious he must not be getting money on the back end."

Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach told Yahoo Sports that if the two boxers don’t make a fight happen soon, interest in the match may wane, and “it may no longer be relevant.”

Mayweather was released from a Las Vegas jail in August after serving two months of a three-month sentence in a misdemeanor domestic battery case for assaulting the mother of his children, in their presence, reports said.

 

Floyd Mayweather Jr. must pay fees
Updated: September 19, 2012, 11:35 PM ET
Associated Press

LAS VEGAS -- A federal judge has ordered boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. to pay about $114,000 for avoiding questioning from rival fighter Manny Pacquiao's lawyers in a defamation case.

Attorneys for Pacquiao earlier lost a bid to end the lawsuit with a more severe sanction -- a default judgment for Pacquiao.

But on Monday, they won more than $113,000 in legal fees and $774 in costs for what U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks bluntly called "Mayweather's obviously intentional decision not to appear for his court ordered deposition."

Pacquiao, a Filipino fighter against whom the undefeated Mayweather is frequently measured, has alleged that Mayweather defamed him by suggesting Pacquiao used performance-enhancing substances.

Pacquiao has denied the claim. He filed the lawsuit in Las Vegas in December 2009 and has sought unspecified damages.

"Calling a professional athlete a cheater is the most serious charge one can make," the lawsuit said. "Accusing an athlete of using performance-enhancing drugs -- however baseless and lacking in evidence -- is toxic."

The two boxers never have fought in the ring, and the court saga playing out in Las Vegas has been seen as an impediment to a much-anticipated bout.

Mayweather lawyer Mark Tratos in Las Vegas declined comment. Pacquiao lawyers Daniel Petrocelli and David Marroso in Los Angeles didn't immediately respond Wednesday to messages about the court order.

News of the ruling came at the same time Las Vegas police reported handing a residential disturbance call involving Mayweather at his daughter's mother's house last week. No one was arrested and no criminal charges were filed in the Sept. 9 incident.

A Mayweather business entity owns the property, according to county records, and Melissa Brim, the mother of Mayweather's daughter, lives there, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Brim on Wednesday were unsuccessful.

Police found no evidence of a physical altercation, Las Vegas police officer Bill Cassell said, and no one in the house wanted to file a police report. Cassell called the case closed.

With no police report, an aide to Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said the incident had no bearing on an unrelated domestic battery case for which Mayweather served two months this summer in a Las Vegas jail. He was released Aug. 3, and is not currently on probation.

Mayweather pleaded guilty last December to reduced misdemeanor charges stemming from a hair-pulling, arm-twisting attack on another former girlfriend, Josie Harris, while two of their three children watched. Harris and the children now live in the Los Angeles area.


Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press

 

mayweathers should learn to behave themselves

 

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Pacquiao is such a *****. What a weakass case

 

No law was broken, no case.

 

It was a civil case, Andy, not a criminal case.

You could read up on the distinction.

 

i guess floyd had to payup and apoligize just like oscar did. a lesson not to accuse anyone without a proof.

 

Civil? Give me a break........