Last Updated: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:19
Floyd Mayweather Jr's manager has angrily refuted claims the American boxing superstar has tax debts of around $6.4m.
Public records obtained by the Associated Press show Mayweather was hit with a lien for $6.17m in unpaid taxes from 2007, according to the Clark County Recorder in Las Vegas.
A New Jersey Superior Court has also claimed he owes $193,000 in state taxes there which have not been paid, while he also owes three homeowners associations $9,400.
However, Mayweather's manager, Leonard Ellerbe, has denied claims his client has fallen on financial worries and scoffed that the authorities would not have to look that far to find the former P4P king if he owed money.
"Floyd Mayweather does not have a problem with the IRS," Ellerbe insisted to the AP. "He doesn't owe the IRS $6.1m , I don't (care) what a lien says."
Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes received a three-year prison sentence for tax offences last year and Ellerbe countered that Mayweather had nothing to hide.
"When you have a problem with them, you ain't hard to find - ask Wesley Snipes," he added. "You go to jail, they come take your (stuff). He doesn't have a problem.
"(Mayweather) is free to move and do anything and everything he wants to do with no problems at all. None whatsoever."