Former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. attends an WNBA hoops crippled betwixt the Las Vegas Aces and the Indiana Fever astatine Michelob Ultra Arena successful Mandalay Bay Saturday, May 25, 2024. Photo by: Steve Marcus
By Jessica Hill, Associated Press
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 | 3:43 p.m.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather faces 2 felony charges successful Las Vegas implicit allegations that helium wrote a atrocious cheque to acquisition a ticker from a luxury resale store.
Mayweather was scheduled for an archetypal quality Monday successful Las Vegas Justice Court. He was not physically contiguous for the hearing, but an lawyer represented him connected his behalf, according to the Clark County District Attorney's office. His lawsuit is scheduled for a proceeding successful September.
Mayweather, 49, was charged successful April with theft arsenic good arsenic drafting and passing a cheque without capable funds with the intent to defraud, according to tribunal records.
Prosecutors successful Clark County allege that successful December 2024, Mayweather wrote a $200,000 cheque done Wells Fargo Bank to Las Vegas decorator resale store Gold and Beyond, contempt having insufficient funds successful his account, according to the transgression complaint.
Mayweather's lawyer and representatives did not instantly instrumentality requests for comment.
The felony charges travel arsenic Mayweather faces different ineligible battles. He was sued successful New York implicit his alleged nonaccomplishment to wage rent astatine a Manhattan flat earlier this year, and helium was successful fiscal disputes with aggregate jewelers. He besides filed a suit successful New York against his erstwhile concern manager, alleging a yearslong fraud scheme.
Mayweather, the erstwhile five-division satellite champion, announced earlier this twelvemonth that helium was coming retired of status and returning to competitory boxing this summer. Mayweather was scheduled to beryllium successful Athens, Greece, for the “Battle of the Legends” boxing lucifer connected June 27, according to an earlier property release. In April, Mayweather confirmed helium would beryllium astatine a lucifer successful Athens.
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