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Fight night results in felony
Saturday, September 30, 2006
By David Mayo
The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS -- Two-time world boxing champion Roger Mayweather is serving a six-month sentence in Las Vegas for committing battery with substantial bodily harm against the grandmother of his infant son last year, court records show.
Mayweather, 45, has been held at Clark County (Nev.) Detention Center since he was sentenced Sept. 19 by Eighth District Judge Stewart Bell, according to records obtained Friday by The Press.
The Grand Rapids native was tried Sept. 11 before a jury that deliberated 57 minutes before convicting him.
The felony stems from a July 17, 2005, incident involving Mayweather and three Las Vegas women, one of whom ended up with her front teeth broken.
About 11 p.m., Mayweather went to the apartment where Kimberly Pearson, 20, with whom he has a son, lives with her mother, Laurelle Haskins, 45.
An argument ensued over the presence of a third woman, Jennifer McDaniel, 30.
Pearson testified she tried to remove Mayweather from the apartment as the exchange grew heated, but he broke away from her grasp, and she fell.
Haskins and McDaniel came to Pearson's defense and began slapping Mayweather, who was scratched on the left side of his chest.
Mayweather responded by punching Haskins in the mouth, cutting her upper lip and breaking her two upper front teeth in half.
The Las Vegas Metro Police arrest report indicated McDaniel also was punched, but refused to press charges, "because she is afraid of Mayweather."
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