Floyd Mayweather Files $340 Million Lawsuit Against Showtime

Floyd Mayweather is well-known for his legendary boxing profession and a number of title wins, however based on him, cable community Showtime has not adequately compensated him for his combat earnings.

Per latest stories, Mayweather has filed authorized paperwork accusing Showtime of owing him $340 million, and he desires them to pay up.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Mayweather filed a $340 million lawsuit towards Showtime on Tuesday, February 3, in California State Court docket. Within the submitting, the boxer alleges that Showtime was a participant in a multi-year scheme of “monetary manipulation and self-dealing” by Mayweather’s ex-manager, Al Haymon.

In keeping with Mayweather, Showtime and Haymon “meant to steal huge sums of cash from him by funneling combat revenues into secret accounts he did not management,” per the outlet. Mayweather is claiming each events engaged in breach of fiduciary responsibility and fraud.

In 2013, Mayweather left rival cable community HBO for Showtime for a multi-year deal that was probably the most profitable in boxing historical past on the time.

As a substitute of direct cost to Mayweather, Showtime wired the boxer’s combat winnings right into a separate account he had no management over. Mayweather blames the lack of his boxing earnings on Showtime for the cash stolen from him by Haymon, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Mayweather obtained new administration in 2024, and through that point, he requested to see a breakdown of his earnings for particular fights, however stated Showtime refused to point out them, based on the lawsuit.

Regardless of Haymon being the only individual accused of stealing from the boxer, he isn’t named in Mayweather’s lawsuit, during which he stated that the cable community ought to have been conscious of Haymon’s stealing as a result of his habits was not in keeping with that of a “typical supervisor.”

Paramount, which owns Showtime, responded to Mayweather’s lawsuit by way of assertion. “These baseless claims lack authorized or factual advantage. We strongly reject them and can reply accordingly by the courtroom course of,” the corporate stated.

In November 2024, a lawsuit was filed towards Showtime concerning the community’s hit horror-drama sequence “Yellowjackets,” on account of claims the present stole its premise from the 2015 movie, “Eden,” per Entertainment Weekly.

Nonetheless, the next yr, in April 2025, Showtime got here out victorious within the authorized battle when federal Decide Dean Pregerson dismissed the lawsuit, based on The Hollywood Reporter.

Per Decide Pregerson’s ruling, he discovered that the “plots, characters, themes, and settings of the 2 works aren’t comparable sufficient to represent copyright infringement.”

“Situations of competitors, tribalism, and factionalism in catastrophe eventualities or in response to useful resource shortage are almost as commonplace, from ‘The Tempest’ to ‘Survivor’ to a lot of the post-apocalyptic style, such because the ‘Mad Max’ movies or any of quite a lot of zombie tales, to, most archetypically, ‘Lord of the Flies,'” the decide wrote in his ruling in favor of Showtime.

Floyd Mayweather and Mike Tyson despatched boxing followers right into a frenzy when it was introduced final yr that the 2 would go head-to-head towards one another in a boxing match. Nonetheless, the extremely anticipated match-up is sparking doubt.

In keeping with Yahoo! Sports, former kickboxer Mike Zambidis teased an upcoming combat with Mayweather courtesy of a poster the place Zambidis referred to himself as “Iron Mike,” which is the broadly recognized nickname for Tyson. The transfer has left followers wanting ahead to Mayweather vs. Tyson confused.

In September 2025, Mayweather and Tyson had been confirmed to take part in an exhibition match from CSI Sports activities/Battle Sports activities set to happen in March, based on ESPN.