Jermain Taylor Pleads Innocent to Battery Charge: Latest Details, Reaction

Boxer Jermain Taylor was back in court Thursday as he continued to battle legal troubles. 

According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Gavin Lesnick, Taylor "pleaded innocent by reason of mental disease of defect to a battery charge stemming from allegations he assaulted a man at a rehabilitation center where he was undergoing treatment."

The incident occurred May 13 at the Oasis Renewal Center, when Taylor "possibly hit" a fellow habitant and caused the man to suffer "multiple bone fractures," per Lesnick.   

While Taylor had been participating in a substance-abuse program, the boxer was reportedly transferred to Pulaski County jail. Lesnick reported Taylor is also slated to undergo a mental evaluation, and no bail has been set since the examination has yet to take place.  

If Taylor is convicted of this latest charge, he faces up to six years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000 since the charges are classified as a Class D felony, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's John Lynch.  

The 36-year-old middleweight boxer and Little Rock, Arkansas, native hasn't been a stranger to controversy of late. 

"He's also facing eight felony charges from two other arrests over accusations that he shot and wounded his cousin in August at Taylor's North Little Rock home, then threatened a Little Rock family of five with a gun in January after the city's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade," Lynch wrote. 

Taylor's last appearance in the ring came in an October 2014 unanimous-decision victory over Sam Soliman, which pushed his lifetime record to 33-4-1 overall with 20 knockouts. 

Based on the severity of the pending charges, don't expect to see Taylor back on a fight card anytime soon.