{"id":3582,"date":"2015-03-04T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2015-03-04T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:13:40","slug":"mayweather-denied-visa-to-visit-australia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3582","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather denied visa to visit Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flamboyant American boxing champion <strong>Floyd Mayweather Jr.,<\/strong> acknowledged as the world\u2019s highest-paid athlete and who likes to be called \u201cMoney,\u201d was \u00a0denied a visa to visit Australia, according to <strong>smb.com.au<\/strong> and <strong>billionairesaustralia.com.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The immigration bar led to the cancellation of promotional activities lined up for Mayweather in Sydney and Melbourne last \u00a0Feb. 5 and 6.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said the 37-year-old Mayweather was prevented from entering the country because of his previous criminal offenses for domestic violence, including a prison term for physically abusing his former girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The unbeaten Mayweather had also been accused of beating four other women in the past. He has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded as the world\u2019s No.1 pound-for-pound fighter, Mayweather was denied the visa following an online petition that was signed by 46,000 people across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The petition read: \u201c<em>Allowing a chronic perpetrator of violence like Floyd Mayweather Jr. to visit Australia sends a terrifying message\u2014that vicious, repeat abuse isn\u2019t serious<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather\u2019s Australia promoter Max Markson said he would appeal the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Originally set Jan. 29 and 30 in Sydney and Melbourne, Mayweather\u2019s promotional tour was deferred due to the visa problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flamboyant American boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., acknowledged as the world\u2019s highest-paid athlete and who likes to be called \u201cMoney,\u201d was \u00a0denied a visa to visit Australia, according to smb.com.au and billionairesaustralia.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}