NEVADA — Manny Pacquiao is set to receive over $100k from Floyd Mayweather (Jr) after a judge ordered the American to pay out legal fees to his rival.
Report by ESPN.co.uk Mayweather failed to attend a court-ordered deposition last year relating to a pending defamation action filed in 2009 by Pacquiao.
Pacquiao later filed a motion requesting attorney fees following Mayweather’s missed deposition.
As a result, federal judge Larry R Hicks has told Mayweather to pay Pacquiao’s attorney fees of $113 518,50, as well as $774,10 in court costs.
Hicks wrote: “The court notes that the award of attorney fees in this matter is a sanction against Mayweather’s obviously intentional decision not to appear for his court ordered deposition.
“This was a direct discovery violation after the court had entered a very clear order that the deposition go forward.”
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Pacquiao is suing Mayweather for allegedly claiming that the Filipino used performance enhancing drugs.
Mayweather and Pacquiao, widely described as the two finest pound-for-pound boxers in the world, have been tipped to meet at some point in summer 2013.