That May 5 date Floyd Mayweather Jr. had reserved at the MGM Grand Garden to resume his boxing career might have to be pushed back.
With Mayweather having been sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in the Clark County Detention Center after Tuesday’s guilty plea to misdemeanor battery charges in two separate cases, it might be tough for him to be ready to fight on the first weekend in May. And it almost certainly means a proposed megafight with Manny Pacquiao would have to wait until the fall — if it happens at all.
Mayweather and his co-manager, Leonard Ellerbe, did not speak to reporters at the courthouse after sentencing. Ellerbe did not return phone calls Wednesday in an attempt to clarify Mayweather’s boxing future.
Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, who promotes Pacquiao and was once Mayweather’s promoter, would not discuss the situation. “I have no comment on Floyd whatsoever,” Arum said.
