Boxing: Mayweather hit by IRS

Floyd Mayweather jnr agreed to pay US$5.6 million ($7.9 million) in back taxes before the Internal Revenue Service was poised to take the money from his purse after his fight with Juan Manuel Marquez.

Nevada Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer said the IRS sent the commission a levy notice ordering Mayweather's unpaid taxes from 2007 to be deducted from his US$10 million fight purse.

Kizer said the IRS backed off one week later after Mayweather agreed to pay the money.