LAS VEGAS — Boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. is seeking an emergency release from jail just 12 days into his three-month sentence on a domestic battery count, citing “inhumane conditions” that could end his boxing career.
Mayweather’s attorney Richard Wright filed a motion seeking his client’s release late Monday, asking that the 35-year-old be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
The motion claims Mayweather’s personal physician Dr. Robert Voy “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.
“Such damage could and, most likely, would lead to Mr. Mayweather being unable to continue his boxing career,” the motion said, according to the Review-Journal.
The motion complained that Mayweather has been confined to his cell 23 hours per day and that he is alone and unable to use the detention center’s training facilities during his one hour of recreation time.
The undefeated five-division champion is being held away from the general population due to his celebrity status.
Mayweather was due to serve time in January for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, but Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa pushed back the sentence to allow him to fight Miguel Cotto, whom he defeated May 5 in a unanimous decision.
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