Mazen Naeim was in Miami Beach for a job interview when he noticed the world-famous boxer cruising down the road on his bike. He says he was a giant fan and began recording on his telephone. But as he approached Mayweather and requested to snap a photograph, he abruptly discovered himself getting clobbered by towering bodyguards, he claims.
Naeim says he was left battered and confused on the concrete.
“He simply began getting beat up. He had completely no concept what was going to occur,” Matthew Rosenfeld, Naeim’s lawyer, tells New Times. “There was no motive for them to do this.”
Naeim’s claims over the September 2020 incident are specified by his lawsuit filed March 24 (hooked up beneath) towards Mayweather in Miami-Dade County court docket.
The lawsuit says that the boxer’s bodyguards “beat up plaintiff Mazen Naeim unprovoked.” It alleges Mayweather failed to coach his entourage on tips on how to work together with followers and cope with such conditions. According to Rosenfeld, there seems to be a sample of violent conflicts between Mayweather’s entourage and followers, stretching again greater than 10 years.
The lawyer tells New Times that Mayweather watched Naeim’s beatdown and proceeded to instrument away on his bicycle.
“It’s okay if Floyd did not need a image,” Rosenfeld says. “It’s not okay for them to beat him up.”
Rosenfeld says that whereas Naiem tried to resolve the matter out of court docket for the previous two years, he was shrugged off by Mayweather’s crew.
“We needed to do what do what we needed to do ultimately, particularly when he has medical payments,” Rosenfeld says.
New Times reached out to the boxer’s firm, Mayweather Promotions, for remark however has not obtained a response.
The lawsuit provides to a rising checklist of claims through which Mayweather’s entourage has been accused of pummeling followers of the boxing champion in public.
In 2010, Mayweather allegedly sicced his bodyguards on a 21-year-old in Las Vegas after he inquired in regards to the boxer’s long-awaited showdown with Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather was later sued over the incident.
In 2017, a fan alleged {that a} member of the Mayweather entourage, reportedly a bodyguard, grabbed him by the neck and punched him within the face after he requested the boxer for a photograph exterior of Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles in California. Similarly, in 2019, a person claimed he was searching for an image with Mayweather when he was overwhelmed up by Mayweather’s posse inside a Las Vegas mall. (In the latter incident’s aftermath, Mayweather’s crew reportedly acknowledged that the person was antagonizing the entourage.)
Mayweather, who has houses throughout the nation in Beverly Hills and Las Vegas, has been a part-time Miami Beach resident for years. In 2021, he scooped up an $18 million mansion on Palm Island, a small and unique man-made island in Biscayne Bay.