Mayweather with manager Leonard Ellerbe today in a Las Vegas court

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been given a 90 day jail sentence by a Nevada judge after pleading guilty to a charge of misdemeanor battery domestic violence and no contest on two counts of harassment. He was also handed a 100-hour community service order and a $2,500 fine. Had the case gone to trial Mayweather was facing up to 34 years in prison.

Mayweather appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom today to face the charges and was expected to plead guilty but his attorney Karen Winckler said she is considering an appeal against the prison sentence, which will commence on January 6. It’s believed part of the deal includes Mayweather pleads guilty to another charge he’s facing, this time misdemeanor battery on a security guard stemming from an incident last year.

Mayweather has been plagued with legal troubles lately and it will come as no real surprise that he has been handed a custodial sentence, but it doesn’t look good when a World champion fighter is convicted of an assault on a woman and will do his reputation both in and out of the sport no good at all.

This does of course pave the way for a Manny Pacquiao fight in the summer, and there have been some positive noises from both camps about making the match lately. The biggest dispute now seems to be the date, which would seem a relatively easy issue to iron out.

1. Mayweather’s prison sentence postponed until June