Floyd Mayweather

LAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr. put on a virtuoso display of boxing skill, winning by unanimous decision over "Sugar" Shane Mosley on Saturday night to keep his perfect record intact. Mayweather (41-0, 25 knockouts) gave a masterful effort in his most dangerous fight in several years against the 38-year-old Mosley, who put Mayweather on his heels with several rocking punches in the second round of their welterweight bout. Mayweather regained his composure and thoroughly outboxed the veteran champion.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. hinted at retirement after beating Miguel Cotto by unanimous decision in a bruising fight Saturday in Las Vegas. "I don't know where we're going to go from here because we basically have fought everybody in this sport," Mayweather said. "I don't have to fight if I don't want to. " One opponent he hasn't fought, Manny Pacquiao, will be in Vegas on June 9 to fight Timothy Bradley . "The Pacquiao-Mayweather fight is not going to happen," Mayweather said.

LAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr. finally found himself in a real fight, complete with a bloody nose and an opponent, in Miguel Cotto, who was never going to quit. As usual, he found a way to win. Mayweather used his speed and accuracy Saturday night to take a unanimous decision over a game Cotto in a bruising bout to win a piece of the 154-pound title. But it wasn't easy, as Cotto landed some hard punches and kept attacking all the way to the final bell. "You're a hell of a champion," Mayweather told Cotto in the ring afterward.

Floyd Mayweather stepped into the ring the other night to face one of the world's best amateur boxers in front of a packed house. He thought nothing of it. Nor did he seem to notice the excitement in the air after he beat Lorenzo Aragon, thus becoming the first American boxer since 1976 to defeat a Cuban in Olympic competition. "I don't know Castro," Mayweather said, "and he don't know me. " Mayweather, a featherweight, wasn't being flippant, and it's not like he didn't understand the significance of what he'd done.

How good is Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the boxing ring? He's nearly as great as he says he is, and the crazy way he boasts, that's saying a lot. How bad is Mayweather outside the ring? Not as nasty as you think, he says. And given the history of violence charges and court cases against him, that's saying a lot, too. Mayweather enters the ring tonight in Atlantic City as the overwhelming betting favorite - and overwhelmingly not the fan favorite - in his super-lightweight (140-pound)

Floyd Mayweather Jr. seemed poised to become a big star until he dropped his father as trainer and manager and turned down a $12.5 million fight offer as a "slave contract. " Mayweather remains estranged from his father, and is now trained by Ralph Mayweather, his father's brother and a former world champion, and managed by rap music mogul James Prince. Mayweather gets a second chance tomorrow against Diego Corrales to resurrect his once promising career as he defends his World Boxing Council 130-pound title.

BOXER Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges in front of a Las Vegas judge. Judge Melissa Saragosa also ordered the 34-year-old Mayweather yesterday to complete 100 hours of community service and pay a $2,500 fine. The plea deal avoids trial on felony allegations that he hit his ex-girlfriend and threatened two of their children during an argument at her home in September 2010.

BOXER Floyd Mayweather Jr. must perform 40 hours of community service after he angered a federal judge in South Carolina who learned Mayweather was actually in a nightclub on the day he was supposed to give a deposition and not resting up from injuries he sustained in a fight, as he had claimed. Mayweather must help the Las Vegas Habitat for Humanity Project by the end of January or face further penalties, U.S. District Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. ruled. Mayweather, along with his production company and World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. are being sued by Anthony Dash, who accused the boxer of stealing a beat he created in 2005 for a song Mayweather used as he entered the ring at wrestling events in 2008 and 2009.

WITH THE obvious exception of college football and its computerized BCS shenanigans, sports championships are determined solely by merit. There are established formulas to crown the winners of the World Series, Super Bowl, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup playoffs and Final Four. A favorite might be upset somewhere along the way, but a really good team can't duck a particularly difficult opponent simply because its decision-makers don't like the way the respective rosters match up. Professional boxing, of course, is a different animal.

It was nearly 30 years ago that a young Cuban boxer named Jesse Ravelo, a Pan Am Games champion, defected to the United States. His Olympic year would have been 1968. He would have boxed for the Cuban team. That dream died as his new life in America began. Before last night, it had been 20 years since a U.S. fighter beat a Cuban in the Olympics. Because the U.S. boycotted the Games in 1980, and Cuba boycotted in 1984 and '88, the streak isn't exactly what it seems. Still, it spanned four fights in Barcelona in '92, and two fights here.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. hinted at retirement after beating Miguel Cotto by unanimous decision in a bruising fight Saturday in Las Vegas. "I don't know where we're going to go from here because we basically have fought everybody in this sport," Mayweather said. "I don't have to fight if I don't want to. " One opponent he hasn't fought, Manny Pacquiao, will be in Vegas on June 9 to fight Timothy Bradley . "The Pacquiao-Mayweather fight is not going to happen," Mayweather said.

LAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr. finally found himself in a real fight, complete with a bloody nose and an opponent, in Miguel Cotto, who was never going to quit. As usual, he found a way to win. Mayweather used his speed and accuracy Saturday night to take a unanimous decision over a game Cotto in a bruising bout to win a piece of the 154-pound title. But it wasn't easy, as Cotto landed some hard punches and kept attacking all the way to the final bell. "You're a hell of a champion," Mayweather told Cotto in the ring afterward.

LAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been doing this all his life, since he was a scrawny kid seeking solace in the gym. The ring is his comfort zone, and he'll enter it Saturday for the 43d time as a pro, certain as ever that when the night is through he'll not only be a lot richer but still unbeaten. Miguel Cotto is equally certain that he can be the first one to conquer Mayweather. "I don't need anyone else giving me a chance," Cotto said. "If I can trust in myself, I don't need anyone else believing in me. " Not many are, especially the oddsmakers who make Mayweather a 6-1 favorite in Saturday night's fight.

WITH THE obvious exception of college football and its computerized BCS shenanigans, sports championships are determined solely by merit. There are established formulas to crown the winners of the World Series, Super Bowl, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup playoffs and Final Four. A favorite might be upset somewhere along the way, but a really good team can't duck a particularly difficult opponent simply because its decision-makers don't like the way the respective rosters match up. Professional boxing, of course, is a different animal.

Seven-time world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KOs) will fight Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KOs) on May 5 in Las Vegas, after Nevada's athletic commission granted him a conditional license for one fight before he goes to jail. Mayweather is scheduled to begin serving 90 days in June after a conviction for criminal domestic violence. The seven-time world champion in five weight classes will turn 35 this month. A longtime welterweight, Mayweather will step up to 154 pounds against Cotto for the WBA super-welterweight belt.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. got almost everything he wanted yesterday, receiving a boxing license and naming an opponent and a date for his next fight. The unbeaten champion got everything except a showdown with Manny Pacquiao . Mayweather will fight Miguel Cotto on May 5 at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden after Nevada's athletic commissioners granted him a conditional license for one fight before he goes to jail June 1 to start serving a 90-day sentence for domestic violence.

The Independence signed free agent midfielder Lori Chalupny , the former Atlanta Beat captain. Chalupny started 17 games for the Beat in 2011 alongside Megan Lenczyk , who signed with the Independence earlier this month. "Lori is a world-class midfielder," said coach Paul Riley . "She was our No. 1 offseason target, and I have long admired her ability to take over a game. She has poise, skill, and ability to be a game changer. " The U.S. women's soccer team remained in its Vancouver hotel despite a fatal shooting in the building where the players are staying for the Olympic qualifying tournament.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. has taken his quest for a fight with Manny Pacquiao to Twitter. The unbeaten Mayweather publicly challenged and taunted the Filipino superstar yesterday, daring Pacquiao to meet him May 5 in Las Vegas. "Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see," Mayweather tweeted. Pacquiao met with his promoter Bob Arum in the Philippines, the Los Angeles Times reported, and decided the best course for pursuing a fight date against Mayweather is to schedule it for late May, or, ideally, June 9. Mayweather faces a June 1 date to report for an already-delayed 90-day jail term in a domestic violence case, but Arum said he'd be "willing to chip in for lawyers' fees" to get that date moved again so a June 9 bout could occur.

BOXER Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges in front of a Las Vegas judge. Judge Melissa Saragosa also ordered the 34-year-old Mayweather yesterday to complete 100 hours of community service and pay a $2,500 fine. The plea deal avoids trial on felony allegations that he hit his ex-girlfriend and threatened two of their children during an argument at her home in September 2010.