FLOYD Mayweather is facing another battle straight after having beaten Manny Pacquiao in their huge fight in Las Vegas – only this one is through the legal system.
The undefeated boxing superstar’s ex-girlfriend, Josie Harris, has filed a defamation lawsuit against him.
Harris, who is the mother of three of Mayweather’s children, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday claiming that the boxer lied about her being on drugs during a 2010 domestic violence incident.
Mayweather is alleged to have lied during a recent interview with Katie Couric.
Harris is asking for $20 million (£12.5m) in damages because of Mayweather telling Couric that he was trying to hold her back during the altercation in 2010 – because she was on drugs.
The boxer was sentenced to three months in prison, eventually serving two, after he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanour battery and two counts of harassment, according to CNN.
Police had originally said he punched Harris in his Las Vegas home, where the couple were living with three children.
Mayweather has denied beating Harris, who claims that he began punching and kicking her as she slept in their home and dragged her around the house in front of the children, according to the lawsuit.
“Did I kick, stomp, and beat someone? No, that didn’t happen… Did I restrain a woman that was on drugs? Yes, I did,” he told Couric last month.
“So if they say that’s domestic violence, then, you know what? I’m guilty. I’m guilty of restraining someone.”
Harris filed the lawsuit, claiming defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress, on Tuesday in Los Angeles County.