Mayweather’s jail sentence postponed

LAS VEGAS—Unbeaten US boxer Floyd Mayweather won’t have to serve a 90-day jail sentence until after a planned fight in May, a judge ruled on Friday.

Mayweather had been scheduled to begin serving the term on Friday after pleading guilty on December 21 to domestic violence charges.

Las Vegas judge Melissa Saragosa also ordered Mayweather to complete 100 hours of community service and gave him a $2,500 fine.

The guilty plea, and no contest plea to two harassment charges, meant the 34-year-old boxer won’t go to trial on charges he hit his ex-girlfriend and threatened two of their children during an argument at her home in 2010.

On Friday, Saragosa ruled that Mayweather could postpone his sentence so he can train for a fight on May 5 against an as-yet unnamed opponent.

Mayweather’s camp has reserved the MGM Grand Garden Arena for a pay-per-view bout on that date.

Mayweather, who is in line for a possible fight with Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao, is the current World Boxing Council welterweight champ and has a record of 42 wins and no losses.

While a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight has been widely anticipated by fight fans, Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum indicated this week that he planned to offer four potential foes to Pacquiao as his next possible opponent, none of them Mayweather.