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Scott Heritage
Pittsburgh Fight Sports Examiner
January 6th, 2011
Another day, another legal incident for the increasingly troubled former pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather. After numerous incidents involving staff members and infractions of community rules it appears Mayweather is now facing a legal injunction from the Southern Highlands Estates, the gated community he moved to in 2009 and which more recently has been the scene of several of his infamous outbursts.
This latest suit alleges that Mayweather refuses to show identification to security guards, (which incidentally was one of the incidents captured on tape by TMZ recently), refuses to put identification decals on his vehicles, and refused to carry a gate opening transponder.
As per the Las Vegas Sun:
“repeatedly engaged in hostile, harassing and threatening behavior toward and against certain employees and security personnel employees...including but not limited to, threatening the life of a patrol officer, physically accosting a security officer, refusing to provide identity to gate officers”
The suit, filed to the Clark County Court, is also seeking $10,000 in damages and wants Mayweather to: "refrain from threatening, yelling or harassing security," and to "otherwise comport himself at all times in a reasonable manner."-Courthouse news.
The law suit comes after several very public incidents involving Mayweather including allegedly assaulting a security guard, harassing and threatening another and only days ago refusing to provide his identification on the grounds that the security guard should recognize him and that he didn't ask everyone who lived there.
The suit is only the latest in a long line of problems for Mayweather of late however. Since winning his last bout in May against Shane Mosley, Floyd has made the headlines on numerous occasions and nearly always for the wrong reasons.
First there was the racially offensive late night broadcast aimed at rival Manny Pacquiao, perhaps more misguided than anything else. Then the ongoing alleged assault of his former girlfriend in front of his children, which carries with it the possibility of jail time should he be found guilty on even some of the charges he faces.
Later there was the run in with the security guard who claims that Mayweather poked him in the face, and the former friend who claimed that Mayweather tried to run him off the road.
The fact that the community group is taking action is hardly surprising after the volume of complaints it has been receiving over Mayweather of late, who appears to want all the benefits of living in a place like Southern Highlands Estates without having to play by the rules.
Whether anything much will come of the suit is difficult to say a this juncture, but it probably won't do much to improve Floyd's mood, reputation or to assuage his aggressive tendencies recently, particularly if the staff have now been instructed to take a hard line approach to his behaviour.
Several other residents of the estate are also unhappy about the entire mess due to the fact that they claim money paid by them to the homeowners association is being wasted on the suit while other problems are being ignored.
So in this respect Floyd really can't win whatever the outcome of the suit. If he wins then the other residents are still going to be angry about their money being wasted, perhaps equally with the association as with Mayweather. If he loses then he's down 10k plus attorney fees and he has to moderate his behaviour and play by the rules
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