Boxing trainer faces trial in attack on female fighter

Boxing trainer Roger Mayweather was bound over for trial Friday in Nevada on three felony charges alleging he beat and choked a female boxer during a confrontation at an apartment he owned.

The woman, Melissa St. Vil, 26, was the only person to testify at an evidentiary hearing after which Justice of the Peace Pro-Tem James Gubler decided there was sufficient evidence to try Mayweather on coercion, battery-strangulation and battery causing substantial bodily harm charges.

"He did this to me," St. Vil told prosecutor Megan Thomson after pointing to the 48-year-old Mayweather and viewing copies of four photographs taken at a hospital following the Aug. 2 altercation. The photos showed injuries to her neck, face and head.

Mayweather, an ex-fighter who trains his nephew, boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., did not testify. He remains free on $13,000 bail.

Mayweather had trained St. Vil, and he owned the apartment where she and Mayweather's tenant, Cornelius Lott, were living. St. Vil said Friday that Mayweather was angry that she was in the apartment when he arrived looking for Lott.

St. Vil said she called the police and hit Mayweather with a lamp. Before officers arrived, she said, Mayweather grabbed her neck from behind and choked her. Written police reports after Mayweather's arrest said officers found the front door open and saw Mayweather behind St. Vil in the kitchen with his arms around her as she struggled to get free.

Outside the courtroom, defense lawyer Jack Buchanan said Mayweather will challenge the charges against him.