{"id":36623,"date":"2026-02-04T22:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Floyd-Mayweather-Files-36340-Million-Lawsuit-Against-Showtime-Sports-Former-Executive-200018"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:26:27","slug":"floyd-mayweather-files-340-million-lawsuit-against-showtime-sports-former-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/floyd-mayweather-files-340-million-lawsuit-against-showtime-sports-former-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Files &#036;340 Million Lawsuit Against Showtime Sports, Former Executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/floyd-mayweather-files-340-million-lawsuit-against-showtime-sports-former-executive.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Floyd Mayweather is taking Showtime Sports to court. | Mike<br \/>\nSloan\/Sherdog.com<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Floyd-Mayweather-257601\">Floyd<br \/>\nMayweather<\/a> has filed a lawsuit against Showtime and former<br \/>\nShowtime Sports president Stephen Espinoza seeking to recoup<br \/>\nmissing earnings from a number of his fights.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/03\/floyd-mayweather-showtime-al-haymon-lawsuit\/\">TMZ Sports<\/a>, the undefeated former boxing<br \/>\nchampion claims ex-manager Al Haymon misappropriated a \u201csignificant<br \/>\nportion of his career earnings\u201d while collaborating with Showtime<br \/>\nand Espinoza. Mayweather is seeking \u201cto recover hundreds of<br \/>\nmillions of dollars in the misappropriated funds and damages<br \/>\nresulting from a long-running and elaborate scheme of financial<br \/>\nfraud.\u201d In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court,<br \/>\nMayweather is seeking $340 million and punitive damages.<\/p>\n<p>In the suit, Mayweather alleges that Showtime and Espinoza gave<br \/>\nmoney from some of his biggest fights \u2014 including bouts against<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Manny-Pacquiao-451008\">Manny<br \/>\nPacquiao<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Conor-McGregor-29688\">Conor<br \/>\nMcGregor<\/a> \u2014 directly to Haymon. According to Mayweather, that<br \/>\nmoney is \u201cmissing and unaccounted for.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Lost Financial Records<\/h2>\n<p>When Mayweather switched managers and asked for Showtime\u2019s<br \/>\nfinancial records for his fights, the company claimed they weren\u2019t<br \/>\navailable, per the suit. Mayweather is suing Showtime and Espinoza<br \/>\nfor iding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, civil conspiracy<br \/>\nto commit fraud, conversion and unjust enrichment. Haymon is not<br \/>\nlisted in the suit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Floyd is one of boxing\u2019s biggest pay-per-view draws. He generated<br \/>\nhundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Showtime,\u201d attorney<br \/>\nBobby Samini said in statement to TMZ Sports. \u201cMr. Mayweather now<br \/>\ntakes this fight to the courtroom to recover what he rightfully<br \/>\nearned. Retiring undefeated at 50-0, Mr. Mayweather will go the<br \/>\ndistance in the courtroom just as he has in the ring.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather is taking Showtime Sports to court. | Mike Sloan\/Sherdog.com Floyd Mayweather has filed a lawsuit against Showtime and former Showtime Sports president Stephen Espinoza seeking to recoup missing earnings from a number of his fights. According to TMZ Sports, the undefeated former boxing champion claims ex-manager Al Haymon misappropriated a \u201csignificant portion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}