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As Pacquiao collects millions, Mayweather Jr. adds more charges

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The divide between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., the man with whom he could make boxing’s greatest payday, continues to widen.

With Pacquiao poised to collect in excess of $25 million Saturday when he faces Pomona’s 8-to-1 underdog Shane Mosley, 39, at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, unbeaten and unwilling-to-fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Thursday was slapped with a criminal complaint alleging he’d committed two misdemeanor acts of harassment.

On Oct. 4, Mayweather allegedly engaged in what the Las Vegas Review-Journal described as an “obscenity-laced confrontation” with two security guards inside the boxer’s gated community over parking tickets placed on two of what the boxer said were his “29 cars.”

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“My homies have guns. If you want me to call them, they’d come over here and take care of you,” Mayweather is quoted as saying in a Las Vegas police report the Review-Journal obtained.

Obviously, that wasn’t the wisest thing to say because Mayweather is connected to an August 2009 shooting outside a skating arena in which a man described by law enforcement as a bodyguard of the boxer shot at a car occupied by a man Mayweather had earlier had a verbal confrontation with.

The alleged shooter is due to go to trial on July 5.

In the police report of the newest case, the Review-Journal reported Friday that Mayweather told the guards, “I already have a pending gun charge and I don’t want any problems.”

Mayweather previously was charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly poking his finger in the face of another guard inside his community.

Most seriously, he’s facing a July 29 preliminary hearing on felony charges following a domestic incident involving the mother of his children and the children. Coercion, grand larceny and robbery are among the charges.

Efforts to reach Mayweather this week have been unsuccessful.

Although he’s been viewed on his Twitter account recently flashing winning bets on NBA games, Mayweather apparently is not interested in publicly discussing his fighting future or Saturday’s fight.

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Two of the closest people to Mayweather were reached by The Times this week. One said they hadn’t talked to Mayweather in months, the other laughed at the request for an interview.

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-- Lance Pugmire

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