Have a problem with Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, or their lackluster fight last weekend? Get in line.
After two other lawsuits involving the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight were filed Tuesday morning, a third surfaced Tuesday afternoon. Floyd Mayweather is being sued by Josie Harris, the mother of his children, according to documents obtained by Deadspin. Mayweather served jail time for physically beating Harris in 2010, but Harris now seeks $20 million in damages due to public comments Mayweather recently made about her.
Last month, Mayweather sat down with renowned journalist Katie Couric as a promotion for his fight with Pacquiao. In that interview, Mayweather was asked about the 2010 incident.
“Did I kick, stomp and beat someone?” Mayweather asked Couric, via Deadspin. “No, that didn’t happen. I look in your face and say, ‘No, that didn’t happen.’ Did I restrain a woman that was on drugs? Yes, I did. So if they say that’s domestic violence, then, you know what? I’m guilty. I’m guilty of restraining someone.”
Harris finally responded Tuesday via civil lawsuit in Los Angeles County that seeks “damages for Mayweather’s false, malicious and defamatory statements about Harris made during the Couric interview,” according to Deadspin.
Mayweather was set to make approximately $200 million from last weekend’s fight.
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