Byline: Tim Smith

NEW YORK _ WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. won't be leaving his day job while he participates in the ABC series "Dancing With the Stars."

Mayweather will continue to train for his match against Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas on Dec. 10. The TV show will run from Sept. 24 to Nov. 26. If Mayweather makes it to the finals, it will be two weeks before he steps into the ring at the MGM Grand against the undefeated 140-pound champ from Manchester, England.

"Can you imagine Emmitt Smith, who won on the show, doing it and playing in the Super Bowl?" said Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather's adviser. "What Floyd is doing, preparing for a fight and ...