Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to a reduced battery domestic violence charge and no contest to two harassment charges. The charges are related to an altercation with his ex-girlfriend Josie Harris in September 2010.
The Associated Press reports:
"Punishment is appropriate," Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa said after a prosecutor complained that Mayweather has been in trouble before and hasn't faced serious consequences.
"No matter who you are, you have consequences to your actions when they escalate to this level of violence," she said.
Good behavior could knock several weeks off Mayweather's sentence. but he will likely serve most of the sentence set to begin Jan. 6, said Officer Bill Cassell, a Las Vegas police spokesman.
Mayweather and his manager, Leonard Ellerbe, declined comment outside the courtroom.
Should-be-obvious lesson: Getting paid to be violent in the boxing ring doesn't mean you can get away with it in real life.
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