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Michael Marley
Boxing Examiner
October 2nd, 2010
X marks the spot and for the young, female boxer whose testimony may send Floyd Mayweather uncle-trainer Roger Mayweather to prison soon, the spot is Youtube.
What with the assault trial based on Roger's alleged assault on the fighter in a Las Vegas apartment he owned set for trial Oct. 25, you might think key witness-accuser Melissa X (also known as "Guard Your Grill" St. Vil) would be keeping a low profile.
But she has a well produced promotional video out which focuses on her trials and tribulations ass woman boxer trying to climb the ladder of success.
Sometime right after the LV Metro Police arrested Roger, she said called him merely "a pad man" as opposed to a top flight trainer and said that, if you look up "ignorant" in the dictionary, you will see his photograph.
(She talks about the success in the ring of Laili Ali, Muhammad Ali's daughter, and Ann Wolfe, better known now as the trainer of fresh out of jail prospect James Kirkland. (There's been a rupture in the Wolfe-Kirkland relationship but the co-managers hope the pair will reconcile.)
Interviewer Phillip Muhammad steers clear of any specific mention of the criminal case against "Black Mamba" Mayweather, a former world champ who fought Julio Cesar Chavez and other top names.
Muhammad does mention "problems" in her pro boxing path and Melissa says merely: "A lot of stuff happens...it comes with the game."
That won't be any game in a Las Vegas courtroom and the outcome could have a pronounced effect, good or bad, on the final part of Floyd's career.
X marks the spot.
(Melissa is an admirer if not a follower of the controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan.)
She appears to be a credible witness whose story about getting attacked by Roger will be hard to shake.
It also won't help Roger's cause that it appears at least one on the scene police officer will testify he saw "Black Mamba" acting more like a boa constrictor, choking the woman.
This is from tvsportsdaily.com:
According to the police report, officers answered a call at a private residence on Sunday morning and found Mayweather with his arms around St. Vil. He released her, and she begain coughing and splitting blood. The police report says that paramedics described redness on St. Vil's throat and defensive wounds on Mayweather's face and head. St. Vil stated that she hit Mayweather in the head with a small lamp as he attempted to strangle her, and the according to the police report, the lamp did have blood on it. She also stated that she was hit in the ribs several times. Mayweather was taken into custody and transported to Clark County Detention Center. St. Vil had trained with Mayweather until about three months ago, the police report says, when she terminated her agreement with him. He is scheduled to work the corner in Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s return to the ring on Sept. 19 against Juan Manuel Marquez.
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