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Pacquiao
Files Federal Defamation Lawsuit Against Mayweathers, Oscar
De La Hoya, & Richard Schaefer
On December 30, 2009, pound-4-pound boxing champion Manny
Pacquiao filed a lawsuit in Nevada federal court against
Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Floyd Mayweather, Sr., Roger
Mayweather, Mayweather Promotions, LLC, and Golden Boy
Promotions executives Oscar de la Hoya, and Richard Schaefer
for making false and defamatory statements accusing Pacquiao
of taking performance-enhancing drugs. The complaint is
attached.
The lawsuit claims the Mayweathers, de la Hoya, and Schaefer
knew that Pacquiao has never taken performance-enhancing
drugs, knew their statements were false, but made them
anyway out of "ill-will, spite, malice, revenge, and envy."
Pacquiao has retained Daniel Petrocelli of the Los
Angeles-based law firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP. About the
filing of the complaint, Petrocelli stated: "Manny
Pacquiao's achievements come from God-given talent and an
indefatigable work ethic -- not steroids. He cannot and
will not allow others to deliberately misrepresent his years
of hard work and tarnish his reputation."
The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Las
Vegas, Nevada, and seeks compensatory and punitive damages
for defendants' wrongful conduct.
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