LAS VEGAS(AP) -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said rumblings about his
financial troubles are nothing more than rumors, but public
records obtained by The Associated Press show the boxer
nicknamed "Money" owes about $6.4 million to the Internal
Revenue Service and others.
The IRS hit the former pound-for-pound boxing king with a lien
in October for $6.17 million in unpaid taxes from 2007,
according to the Clark County Recorder in Las Vegas. A New
Jersey Superior Court judgment from the same year shows he owes
$193,000 in state taxes there.
Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather's manager, disputed the documents
and said he believed they were inaccurate.
"Floyd Mayweather does not have a problem with the IRS," Ellerbe
told the AP on Thursday. "He doesn't owe the IRS $6.1 million
... I don't (care) what a lien says."
"When you have a problem with them, you ain't hard to find - ask
Wesley Snipes," Ellerbe said. "You go to jail, they come take
your (stuff). He doesn't have a problem."
Snipes, the actor, is currently appealing convictions of
willfully failing to file his income taxes and his three-year
prison sentence....