Floyd Mayweather Faces Lawsuit As Ex-Girlfriend Sues For £13m

Floyd Mayweather Jr. may have beat Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision but now the boxing champ is facing the mother of his children. Mayweather is being sued by Harris to the tune of $20 million and some are wondering if Floyd will be forced to pay up. According to TMZ Sports on Tuesday, Josie Harris is claiming that Mayweather defamed her character in a recent interview and now she wants him to pay up.

It is no secret that Mayweather spent two months in jail after a 2010 domestic altercation with Josie Harris. According to reports, Josie claims that Floyd, fueled by jealousy, broke into her home and attacked her while she was sleeping. She says her three children saw the vicious attack and one of her sons even tried to get help for his mother.

Koraun Mayweather's account of the attack made headlines again recently and has left many readers speechless. He was only 10 years old on September 9, 2010 when Floyd Mayweather Jr. was accused of brutally attacking Josie Harris. This isn't the first time that Mayweather was accused of violence but it is the most shocking, being that the statement was handwritten by his then 10-year old son.

In an interview with Katie Couric just two weeks ago, Mayweather was asked about the incident that landed the superstar boxer in jail. He told Couric during that interview that the details given by both Josie and his son were incorrect. Instead, Floyd Mayweather claimed that Harris actually attacked him in a "drug fueled rage" and that he was forced to restrain her.

Of course those claims upset Josie Harris and she claims that Floyd's words hurt her reputation. Harris' lawyer Dan Friedlander claims in the lawsuit that Floyd Mayweather's claims "were knowingly fabricated in order to hype Mayweather's upcoming fight with Pacquiao, to avoid bad press by deflecting responsibility for beating the mother of his children."

Shockingly, it seems that many sports fans either didn't know about the 2010 incident and resulting jail time or had put it out of their memory. In the days before the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight, information of Mayweather's history of violence began circulating again and many were stunned to find out about the celebrated boxer's past.

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