TMZ Sports brings word that CSI Entertainment is suing Floyd Mayweather Jr, seeking to claim damages for “Money’s” ill-fated bouts with Mike Tyson and Manny Pacquiao and to stop him from facing Mike Zambidis next week.
The news comes just days after ESPN revealed that Mayweather (50-0, 27 KO) got slapped with felony charges over a bad check.
Mayweather announced a May exhibition against Tyson last September, then followed up by revealing a September rematch with “Pac-Man” in February. Less than two weeks later, he added a June meeting with K-1 kickboxing vet Zambidis to the lineup.
Things swiftly went off the rails. Pacquiao and Mayweather gave conflicting reports as to whether their meeting would be an exhibition or professional match, while few details emerged about the Tyson fight before “Iron” wound up breaking his hand 10 days before fight night.
Per the report, things were similarly chaotic behind the scenes. CSI alleges that they paid $4.5 million for the rights to both the Tyson and Pacquiao bouts, only for Mayweather to go behind their backs, set up the Zambidis bout with a separate promoter, and “secretly [sign] a separate deal with another company to stream the fight with Pacquiao on Netflix from the Sphere in Las Vegas.”
The laws of comedy demand that Mayweather face a third, equally humiliating legal dispute in the immediate future, so we’ll keep you in the loop.
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