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Floyd Mayweather Owes Manny Pacquiao $113,000

What if we told you there was a new development to talk about in the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao saga? Would you get excited? Well, uh, don’t. For there is a new development – it just has nothing to do with actual boxing. What it does have to do with: Pacquiao’s ongoing defamation lawsuit against Mayweather for allegedly alleging that Pacquiao’s juicing (allegedly). (For what it’s worth, Mayweather says he never accused Pacquiao of such a thing, though his father Floyd Mayweather Sr. has hinted pretty strongly that he think’s Pacquiao’s taking steroids before.)

Anyway, the lawsuit. Mayweather Jr. was scheduled to show up at a deposition last year, but never did. Pacquiao’s team contended that he had no good excuse not to:

“Mayweather decided that he, not the court, would determine if and when his deposition would take place. Busy living the ‘luxurious lifestyle non-stop,’ ‘pour[ing] champagne for [his] friends,’ and keeping the company of ‘attractive women,’ Mayweather refused to be deposed. He disobeyed properly served deposition notices, filed specious ‘emergency’ motions, openly defied this court’s order directing him to appear, and serially misrepresented his whereabouts to Pacquiao and this court. Exposing Mayweather’s untruths was a massive – and expensive – undertaking.”

Apparently, Judge Larry Hicks agreed, and ruled that Mayweather owes Pacquiao $113,518.50 in legal fees thanks to his “obviously intentional decision not to appear for his court ordered deposition.” Add this to the script of the ongoing black comedy that is any Mayweather-Pacquiao development: we’ve got a much-hyped fight that exists only in our minds. We’ve got trash-talking from both camps that’s already gotten to Godwin’s Law territory.

And to top it all off, we have a court case about alleged allegations, the proceedings of which a judge has now ruled are being intentionally held up. (Also, “massive – and expensive – undertaking”? Are we sure all the evidence Pacquiao’s lawyers needed wasn’t just on Mayweather’s Twitter account?) Well, at least we’re reading about a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight… it’s just that this one’s being in conducted in court, and is about paying lawyers. If only there were a different way for Pacquiao and Mayweather to settle their feud, right?

[SI via Complex]

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