LAS VEGAS — Two prominent female journalists, each of whom has detailed the domestic-violence history of Floyd Mayweather Jr., wrote on Twitter on Saturday morning that they had been denied credentials to the evening’s fight between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
Rachel Nichols, a reporter with CNN, said that she and Michelle Beadle, who works for ESPN and HBO, would not be able to cover the fight.
“Mayweather’s team told my producer the camp was blocking my credential,” Nichols said on Twitter after Beadle had posted a message saying the two had been “banned from the MGM Grand Arena.