Unbeaten former world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr did not appear yesterday at a scheduled arraignment hearing on eight criminal charges that could bring him up to 34 years in prison
Unbeaten former world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr did not appear yesterday at a scheduled arraignment hearing on eight criminal charges that could bring him up to 34 years in prison.
Judge Diana Sullivan ordered Mayweather to pay 31,000 dollars in bail within a week and to stay away from his former girlfriend, Jose Harris, and their two sons. 
Sullivan rescheduled the fighter's arraignment for January 24. Mayweather, 33, faces charges of felony robbery, coercion and grand larceny as well as misdemeanor domestic battery and harassment charges in connection with the September 9 incident.
Prosecutors claim that Mayweather struck Harris and threatened to beat his sons if they tried to call for help, taking cellular telephones from Harris and the children during the scuffle.
Mayweather, 41-0 with 25 career knockouts, took an 18-month break from boxing after stopping England's Ricky Hatton in the 10th round to claim the World Boxing Council welterweight title on December 8, 2007.
After surrendering his crown and seeing Filipino star Manny Pacquiao replace him as the pound-for-pound king, Mayweather returned to win unanimous decisions last year over Mexico's Juan Manuel Marquez and last May from fellow American Shane Mosley.
Boxing fans hoped to see Mayweather climb into the ring against Pacquiao in 2010 but negotiations between the fighters broke down and with a courtroom fight upcoming for Mayweather, chances for them to meet in 2011 appear slim.u00a0
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