Roger Mayweather Takes Plea Deal » Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s uncle and trainer pleaded no contest Thursday to two misdemeanor battery charges in a plea deal that avoided a trial and jail time in a Las Vegas domestic battery case. • Roger Mayweather, 49, was sentenced to a year of probation, 24 weeks of domestic violence counseling, 50 hours of community service and a $1,000 fine for the Aug. 2, 2009, incident… Associated Press, sports.espn.go.com

Roy Jones Back On HBO — As An Announcer » It’s a move that seemed to have been coming for months, but on Thursday it became official when HBO announced it had reached an agreement to bring back Roy Jones Jr. as a permanent expert analyst on “Boxing After Dark.”… Dan Rafael, sports.espn.go.com

Alexander, Bradley Winding Down Preparations » Junior welterweight titleholders Devon Alexander and Timothy Bradley Jr. are down to the final days of training for their much-anticipated unification fight and pushing themselves to the limit… Dan Rafael, sports.espn.go.com

>>THE SAGA CONTINUES: HOME DEPOT CENTER, MAY 3. ROGER MAYWEATHER VS FLOYD MAYWEATHER, SR. “Even though I will now be on the other side of the ring from Floyd Sr, who I think of like an uncle, but I will have Roger in my corner so there is still a part of the Mayweather family, who knows everything about boxing.” —Stevie Forbes (Source: The 365 Media Group Network)

>> “Not only am I going to knock him out, but I will punish him for the long wait. On March 8, he is going to feel like he is getting two years worth of physical punishment. I’m going to bring excitement back to the heavyweight championship.” — Samuel Peter  •  The WBC heavyweight title clash between interim champion Samuel Peter and WBC kingpin Oleg Maskaev, televised by HBO World Championship Boxing, will be the first world heavyweight championship ever held in Mexico (Cancun’s Plaza de Torros.)

(Roger Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images; Floyd Photo by Jim Fiscus/ESPN)