Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa credited the undefeated  five-division champion with attending weekly domestic violence counseling  sessions and with beginning to meet community-service requirements she imposed  in December. The judge then watched as the silent Mayweather was handcuffed and  taken away.

“He’ll be all right,” said Mayweather’s friend, rap star Curtis James Jackson  III – better known as 50 Cent – after arriving with Mayweather and speaking  afterward outside the courthouse in downtown Las Vegas. “It’s an uncomfortable  situation for everyone.”

Mayweather pleaded guilty in December to reduced domestic battery charges in  a hair-pulling, arm-twisting attack on Josie Harris, the mother of three of his  children. The plea deal allowed him to avoid trial on felony charges that could  have gotten Mayweather up to 34 years in prison if he was convicted.

Las Vegas police say that as a high-profile inmate, Mayweather probably will  serve most of his time away from other prisoners in a small solo cell in the  high-rise Clark County Detention Center.

Saragosa said when she sentenced Mayweather that she was particularly  troubled that he threatened and hit Harris while their two sons, 10 and 8,  watched. The older boy ran out a back door to get a security guard in the gated  community.