Trainer Mayweather enters not guilty plea
Boxing trainer Roger Mayweather pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges that he beat and choked a female boxer last August.
A judge set trial for June 1 on coercion, battery-strangulation and battery causing substantial bodily harm charges.
Mayweather, 48, declined to comment after the brief appearance before Clark County District Court Hearing Master Kevin Williams. There was no mention of a Tuesday court date Mayweather missed when he sent word through his lawyer that he was needed at the gym.
Mayweather is a former boxer who trains fighters including his undefeated 32-year-old nephew, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Mayweather remains free on $13,000 bail.
His lawyer, Jack Buchanan, said he intends to file a legal challenge to the evidence and the charges. He has said he heard inconsistencies in the preliminary hearing testimony of Melissa St. Vil, a fighter whom Mayweather used to train.
St. Vil, 26, testified Jan. 15 that Mayweather punched and choked her nearly to unconsciousness before police arrived to find the two struggling at an apartment Mayweather rented to another man.
