{"id":908583,"date":"2026-09-25T02:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908583\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T02:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:20:14","slug":"floyd-mayweather-drops-175m-fraud-lawsuit-against-ex-biz-associates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908583\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Drops $175M Fraud Lawsuit Against Ex-Biz Associates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260602_b6afbfadf3564ecbb09a724537c558fe\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1e69f81b-a0ab-4e43-8ffa-dce905898932\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b6afbfadf3564ecbb09a724537c558fe_md.png\" alt=\"main floyd mayweather getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Floyd Mayweather&#8217;s throwing in the towel in his massive lawsuit against several former business associates, notifying the court he&#8217;s dropping the case &#8230; TMZ Sports has learned.<\/p>\n<p>But the boxing legend is leaving himself an opening to come back swinging.<\/p>\n<p>According to court filings, which we obtained, the 50-0 fighter notified the New York Supreme Court that he was dropping the suit against Jona Rechnitz, Ayal Frist, Alexander Seligson, and Frist Apex Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;without prejudice,&#8221; meaning Floyd could refile the case if he chooses.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260911_e804543da97b4a8f86142d4535a4f51f\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1e69f81b-a0ab-4e43-8ffa-dce905898932\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/e804543da97b4a8f86142d4535a4f51f_md.jpg\" alt=\"floyd mayweather courtside getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayweather sued in May, claiming Rechnitz and co. drained him of insane amounts of cash &#8230; including proceeds from real estate deals, $100 million in fancy jewelry, and even the sale of a private jet.<\/p>\n<p>The damages were said to be &#8220;not less than&#8221; $175 million.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the suit was filed, an attorney for the defendants blasted it as &#8220;utterly baseless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260428_a0595cb9dae64215b517a38f157155f0\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1e69f81b-a0ab-4e43-8ffa-dce905898932\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a0595cb9dae64215b517a38f157155f0_md.png\" alt=\"floyd mayweather sub getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, why the sudden change in course for TBE?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear, but a source in Rechnitz&#8217;s camp says the defendants were about to file their response, which they say contained receipts showing the claims were BS.<\/p>\n<p>We reached out to Mayweather&#8217;s lawyer, but so far, no word back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather&#8217;s throwing in the towel in his massive lawsuit against several former business associates, notifying the court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-908583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}