He?ll almost certainly fight in Las Vegas, if he chooses to fight again. He has fought his last seven bouts in his hometown and hasn?t competed outside of Nevada since Nov. 19, 2005, when he stopped Sharmba Mitchell in Portland, Ore.
Mayweather should be licensed without question if and when he applies in 2012, but the Nevada Athletic Commission frequently likes to make grandstand plays. As a result, it wouldn?t be surprising to see the commission attempt to make an event out of it.
There is no question that Nevada will license Mayweather. His fights pour massive revenue into the state coffers ? just one fight generates enough to fund the commission?s budget for a year. For one of the most cash-strapped states in the country, that is hardly insignificant.
The question will be whether Nevada will attempt to turn it into a circus and require Mayweather to hire an attorney and appear in front of the commission to plead for his license.
That?s likely to happen, though it would be a ludicrous decision if it did. Mayweather has done nothing in boxing that would put his fitness for a license in question. And by the time he applies, he will have served his time for his domestic violence-related conviction.
