Judge: No easing of Floyd Mayweather's jail stay

Floyd Mayweather Jr., right, walks into court escorted by his attorney Karen Winckler, center, and 50 Cent, left, to begin his 90-day jail term, Friday, June 1, 2012, in Las Vegas. / AP Photo/Julie Jacobson

(AP) LAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s request that he be released from jail because the low-quality food and water have threatened his health was denied by a Las Vegas judge who says he should eat and drink what is being given to him behind bars.

Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa wrote in her late Wednesday decision that water has been made available to Mayweather around the clock and the only reason he isn't eating properly is because he refuses to eat the provided meals. Saragosa said Mayweather's complaints that he is unable to exercise in jail are also unfounded.

"While the physical training areas and times provided to (Mayweather) may not be consistent with his prior regimen, he is indeed provided sufficient space and time for physical activity if he so chooses," Saragosa wrote.

A mere 10 days after Mayweather turned himself in to begin his three-month sentence, his legal team filed an emergency motion Monday asking the court to put him under house arrest or move him into the general jail population — something that jail officials had avoided to protect the celebrity fighter. The motion claimed the undefeated champion might never fight again because he was getting out of shape in solitary confinement.

Mayweather lawyer Richard Wright didn't immediately return a phone message late Wednesday. Wright said earlier this week that he was not seeking special treatment for the 35-year-old fighter.

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Mayweather pleaded guilty last year to reduced domestic battery charges stemming from an attack on his former girlfriend while two of their children watched. The plea deal allowed him to avoid trial on felony charges that could have gotten Mayweather up to 34 years in prison if he was convicted. Mayweather was sentenced Dec. 22, but was allowed to remain free long enough to make a Cinco de Mayo weekend fight.

This Dec. 22, 2011, photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows a typical single-inmate Clark County Detention Center jail cell in the administrative segregation unit in Las Vegas. The jail cell is similar to one where Floyd Mayweather Jr. is serving a 90-day jail term.

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Mayweather's legal team told the court this week that his personal physician, Dr. Robert Voy, visited the jail Friday and determined the fighter had lost muscle tone. Voy estimated Mayweather was consuming fewer than 800 calories a day instead of his usual 3,000 or 4,000 calories. Mayweather also wasn't drinking enough because he wasn't allowed bottled water and doesn't enjoy tap water.

"I am concerned about Floyd withdrawing, developing anger he cannot dissipate through the usual means of dedicated exercise and training," Voy wrote in an affidavit. "Boxing has been Mr. Mayweather's life since he was a young man and we need champions of this type to continue to their natural retirement and hopefully their contributions to society thereafter."

Prosecutor Lisa Luzaich scoffed at the complaints during a court hearing Tuesday.

"It's jail," Luzaich told the court. "Where did he think he was going? The Four Seasons?"

[LouDeF]

Mayweather once said that his father was just a "cab driver." His father served time in jail without begging anyone to let him out. Ten days in jail and Mayweather is begging a judge to let him out. When he went in he said it "it is what it is." I wonder what his father thinks of him. I wonder what Michael Vick thinks of him. I wonder what Mike Tyson thinks of him. Both men served time without begging. Westley Snipes is now in jail and we have not heard about him begging. Begging is not helping the image of Mayweather.

[keote_poet]

isn't this the guy who burns money with a big ego? where's all that money now? haha...

[pokey5735]

Why do celebrities think they should have special treatment?
If the water and food are good enough for the other prisoners then it is good enough for him.
Good for the Judge! And the prosecutor.

[mari1963]

What a big man he is to beat up on a woman while his children are watching. It's too bad this loser can't stay in jail forever. And of course, the loser didn't marry the mother of his children either. He's just a loser all the way around! He makes me sick!

[audemus]

He could have gotten 34 years, and he's complaining for getting 3 months....?

[bree1345]

Too bad - if you do the crime then you pay the price. What a fool he is thinking he can have special treatment. PLEASE

[carolhill814]

This is not supposed to be a cake walk it is called prison nothing more nothing less so live with it.

[amurguz]

That's why its called "jail" and not "picnic."

[royalstar05]

Good, why should he get special treatment.

[dontforget911]

If he wants to be with the general prison population then I don't see why not, but he may change his mind after a week. He should not get special treatment.