Legendary boxer Floyd Mayweather is being sued by a California man after he allegedly directed a bodyguard to assault the person throughout an incident almost two years in the past.
In accordance with a report from TMZ, Mayweather is being sued by Eduardo Andres Torres Martinez of Los Angeles over an alleged incident that passed off on the Yard Home at L.A. Stay situated close to Crypto.com Enviornment — previously often known as The Staples Middle — on February 10, 2022.
The lawsuit claims that Martinez was filming ‘Cash’ and his crew with a cellphone digital camera when the pugilist entered the restaurant. Martinez alleges that Mayweather observed him filming and signaled for one among his bodyguards to intervene. The bodyguard then allegedly knocked Martinez right down to the bottom with an unspecified blow and commenced wrestling with him in an try and confiscate the cellular phone, “inflicting additional accidents and damages,” based on an official criticism.
Martinez filed a battery report shortly after the incident, however LAPD sources have allegedly instructed TMZ {that a} witness contradicted his model of the story.
Martinez is in search of unspecified “common damages for previous, current and future ache, misery, anguish and struggling, together with bodily and psychological ache and struggling, inconvenience, emotional stress, and impairment of the standard of life,” in addition to different damages, the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit names Mayweather, the Cash Group LLC, and the Yard Home as defendants.
Mayweather has denied that the incident ever passed off, with a consultant of the boxer saying that he had solely “stopped by” the restaurant and left as a result of it was too crowded.