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Big payday could help Mayweather fend off IRS
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said rumblings about his financial troubles are nothing more than rumors, but public records obtained by The Associated Press show the boxer nicknamed “Money” owes about $6.4 million to the Internal Revenue Service and others.
The IRS hit the former pound-for-pound boxing king with a lien in October for $6.17 million in unpaid taxes from 2007, according to the Clark County Recorder in Las Vegas. A New Jersey Superior Court judgment from the same year shows he owes $193,000 in state taxes there.
Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather’s manager, disputed the documents and said he believed they were inaccurate.
“Floyd Mayweather does not have a problem with the IRS,” Ellerbe told the AP on Thursday. “He doesn’t owe the IRS $6.1 million … I don’t (care) what a lien says.”
“When you have a problem with them, you ain’t hard to find — ask Wesley Snipes,” Ellerbe said. “You go to jail, they come take your (stuff). He doesn’t have a problem.”…Continue Reading
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Former boxing champ, Managua mayor Arguello dead
Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Former boxing champion Alexis Arguello, one of the best junior lightweights to step in the ring, was found dead at his home early Wednesday.
Presidential spokeswoman Rosario Murillo confirmed Arguello’s death and an autopsy was pending. The La Prensa newspaper reported Arguello was found with a gunshot wound to the chest.
“We are upset,” said Murillo, who declined to provide details about the death. “This is a heartbreaking announcement. He was the champion of the poor, an example of forgiveness and reconciliation.”…Continue Reading
Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley, nominated for ESPY “fighter of the year” award
Boxers Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and Sugar Shane Mosley both nominated for the 2009 ESPN ESPY award of fighter of the year. The other nominees are MMA/UFC fighters Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida. The ESPY awards will air on Sunday, July 19th on ESPN.
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