Mayweather sued over All Access episode

Yahoo! Sports reports that Floyd Mayweather has been sued in Clark County, Nevada by Hasim Rahman, Jr. and Sharif Rahman.  The Rahman brothers are suing Mayweather for battery, tortious assault, false imprisonment, negligent hiring, training supervision and retention and unjust enrichment based on an episode of Showtime’s “All Access” series.

The Rahman brothers are sons of the former heavyweight champion, Hasim Rahman.

The series, which was promoting Mayweather’s rematch against Marcos Maidana, featured the Rahman brothers sparring British boxer Donovan Cameron at Mayweather’s gym in Las Vegas. The episode featured a 31 minute round between Cameron and one of the Rahman brothers.  During the episode, a timer was shown by the camera to document the time that had passed.  Yet, Mayweather claimed there were “numerous breaks” during the 31 minutes when questioned about the incident during his testimony before the Nevada Athletic Commission on September 23^rd.

Mayweather referred to his gym as the “dog house” where there were fights to the death.  At the time, I thought it was a widely politically incorrect statement considering Mike Vick’s past indiscretions with dog fighting.  And, of course, dog fighting in general.  The dog house connotation drums up images of arranged matches where the combatants fight until one can no longer go.  Essentially, the brutal result of dog fighting.

Payout Perspective:

This is an interesting lawsuit and since we are not Nevada lawyers we can only speak in general about the veracity of these claims.  If you recall the episode, it did not appear that either one of the Rahman brothers were unwilling participants to do battle in the ring.  Unless there were other things going on behind the scenes that the viewers were not privy too, I do not know about the success of this lawsuit.  Of course, Showtime, which shot the footage (and also would know whether Mayweather’s associates smoked marijuana in another episode), would know about the details and we will see if the raw footage will be uncovered during this lawsuit.