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The Oscar De La Hoya sex lawsuit may finally be coming to its end. A New York judge has knocked out the civil tort suit against the retired fighter.

Angelica Marie Cecora, the plaintiff, sued De La Hoya for $5 million alleging false imprisonment, assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, New York Daily News reports.

Judge Paul Wooten called Cecora's suit frivolous. He followed with a one-two of his own by ordering Cecora to pay De La Hoya's legal fees and imposed a $500 sanction on both her and her attorney. 

That wasn't the end of it, either.

A Las Vegas judge has agreed to postpone Floyd Mayweather's jail term so he can train for a fight on Cinco de Mayo. Though he has no opponent, his managers have reserved the MGM Grand Garden Arena and made arrangements for pay-per-view television.

Mayweather was sentenced to 90 days in jail last month after he pleaded guilty to domestic violence. He was accused of violently attacking his ex-girlfriend while two of their children watched on.

Nelson Mandela's daughter plans to appeal a costly court ruling over plans for a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight that never happened.

The ruling follows a failed attempt by Mandela's daughter to organize a fight between the world's top two boxers, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, gossip website TMZ.com reports. The bout was supposed to coincide with Nelson Mandela's 93rd birthday bash in South Africa.

The fight fell through, and a boxing promoter sued Mandela's daughter, Zindziswa, for breach of contract. Among the promoter's claims: that Zindziswa promised him a 15% commission, and that Zindziswa failed to pay his expenses as promised -- including bills at a Los Angeles hotel where he was kicked out, the UK's The Week reports.

Bad boy boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr.'s domestic violence charges have netted him a 90-day jail sentence. Mayweather pled guilty in Las Vegas as part of a plea deal to a count of battery domestic violence against then-girlfriend Josie Harris. He also pled no contest to two harassment charges.

The assault occurred in 2010 after Harris informed Mayweather she was dating another man. Mayweather also threatened his children during the incident.

He could have faced up to 18 months in prison and $3,000 in fines, reports the Seattle Times.

"Sugar" Shane Mosley's divorce has just gotten a whole lot messier: Sugar Shane's championship belts? Three of them are going to his ex-wife, Jin Mosley.

The championship belt deal is part of the divorce settlement, reports TMZ. Mosley's last world title came in his knockout in 2009 against Antonio Margarito, a fight that gained him the welterweight belt. Who knows if he will end up keeping that one.

Each of Mosley's kids will get one of their dad's championship belts when they turn 18, TMZ reports. Undoubtedly, they'll be kind of a sweet memento.

The settlement, however, does not end there.

Oscar De La Hoya has entered the ring against a new opponent.

Retired world and 1992 Olympic champion boxer Oscar De La Hoya has announced he entered drug rehab last month, to address substance abuse and infidelity issues, reports NBC Sports.

De La Hoya, 38, reportedly had battled alcohol, cocaine and marital infidelity issues before entering an undisclosed California rehab facility. De La Hoya married Millie Corretjer in 2001, and the couple has two children, reports Fox Chicago News.

"After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are certain issues that I need to work on... I ask for respect and privacy as my family and I go through this process," De La Hoya said in a statement, reports Fox.

Former champ Sugar Ray Leonard is boxing royalty, but sex abuse by a former coach marred his childhood. News of the coach's abuse was brought to light in Leonard's new autobiography, "The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring."

According to his own account, the champion boxing star, 55, said that he was abused twice by an unnamed coach. The first time was when he was only 15, when he went to a boxing event in Utica, New York. The second time was several years later, when the same coach took advantage of him after filling talking up what winning an Olympic gold medal would do for his career.

Most of Leonard's close friends and colleagues were shocked by the news. They had heard about Leonard's problems with drug and alcohol, but this is the first time that Leonard spoke about the abuse, reports The New York Times.

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s ears must have been burning. After Manny Pacquiao dismantled Antonio Margarito in a title fight over the weekend, Mayweather's name was tossed around incessantly:

Will the Pacquiao Mayweather bout, the fight all of boxing wants to see, happen now? Is Mayweather scared or just dodging Pacquiao? So perhaps Mayweather was a bit surly from being called out when he allegedly got into it with a security guard Monday, resulting in yet another brush with the law.

Manny Pacquiao didn't need a lawsuit to defeat Antonio Margarito Saturday. The Filipino boxing sensation only needed his lightning-fast fists. Pacquiao annihilated Margarito in a lopsided, unanimous decision that sent Margarito to the hospital for surgery on his right eye socket.

But before the fight, when word that Margarito had gained 15 pounds overnight to come into the ring at 165, people worried for the smaller Pacquiao's safety, who was giving away 17 total pounds. Boxing followers recalled a famous lawsuit stemming from when Arturo Gatti gained 19 pounds overnight and brutally knocked out Joey Gamache in 2000.

The city of sin is also the site of Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s recent arrest on charges of larceny and domestic violence. The boxing superstar has been arrested by Las Vegas police, and is currently being held on $3,000 bail.

According to celebrity news outlet TMZ, Mayweather and his ex-girlfriend Josie Harris got into a physical altercation in which the boxer supposedly attacked and threatened to kill Harris at her Las Vegas home. The larceny charges are related to various items Harris claims Mayweather took from her house during the incident. Harris is the mother of three of Mayweather's children.