Mickey Bey Jr. (R) in the 2004 Olympic box-offs, had a 30-1 T/E ratio after a Feb. 2 fight (Getty)Mickey Bey Jr. escaped with virtually no penalty for having voluminous amounts of a banned substance in his system that potentially made him a much more lethal, dangerous boxer.

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was socked with the second-highest fine ever assessed a boxer in Nevada and given a nine-month suspension because he was discovered to have had marijuana, which most experts believe is not performance-enhancing, in his system, via a urinalysis conducted after his middleweight title loss to Sergio Martinez.

Julio Cesar Chavez was fined $900,000 for smoking marijuana (AP)Chavez was fined $900,000 and suspended for nine months for smoking marijuana.

Bey, who violently knocked out Robert Rodriguez in the third round on Feb. 2 in Las Vegas, failed his post-fight drug test that night. He had a 30-1 testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio -- commonly referred to as a T/E ratio -- that was five times the legal limit in Nevada and 7 1/2 times the legal limit in all other states but New York.

On Wednesday, Bey was fined $1,000 and suspended for three months. The suspension, though, amounts to nothing. He was planning all along to fight on May 4, on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Robert Guerrero show, and now can do that.

He hadn't fought twice in three months in more than two years, so the only penalty Bey really incurred was the $1,000 fine.

Now, let that sink in:

• Chavez, who didn't use a performance-enhancing drug, was fined $900,000 and suspended for nine months. He lost at least one fight in that time, a fight that would have paid him at least another $1.5 million, if not more. So, in essence, his penalty jumps to $2.4 million.

• Bey, who did use a performance-enhancing drug that is plaguing combat sports, was fined $1,000 and will, in essence, not be forced to miss a fight.

Top Rank's Bob ArumShowtime on Tuesday announced a full slate of programming to support its upcoming May 4 pay-per-view broadcast of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Robert Guerrero fight from Las Vegas.

To fully appreciate the significance of what Showtime announced, though, requires a bit of a history lesson.

In January 2011, Top Rank's Bob Arum struck a deal with CBS president Les Moonves to bring Manny Pacquiao's fight with Shane Mosley to Showtime pay-per-view on May 7, 2011.

That move caught HBO officials off-guard and, in many ways, was responsible for Ross Greenburg resigning from his post as president of HBO Sports the following July.

A month later, Arum then announced that Pacquiao would return to HBO Pay-Per-View for what was then his third fight with Juan Manuel Marquez, which was held Nov. 12, 2011. But about a month before that fight happened, HBO Sports hired Ken Hershman away from Showtime to replace Greenburg.

Last month, Mayweather, the top pound-for-pound boxer in the world, announced he was leaving HBO to sign a lucrative deal with Showtime. And with Mayweather's May 4 fight at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas against Guerrero the first bout under that deal, Showtime on Tuesday announced it had hired who else other than Greenburg to serve as executive producer on two major projects to promote the fight.

Adrien Broner was arrested in Miami, Fla., on Monday on a charge of battery

Budding superstar boxer Adrien Broner spent some time in jail on Monday after being arrested in Miami Beach, Fla., and charged with battery. According to BoxingScene, a spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade Corrections & Rehabilitation Department confirmed Broner's arrest.

According to his booking photo, bond was set at $1,500.

Broner tweeted his booking photo, then later deleted it.

He does not appear on the department's inmate in custody list.

Broner, 23, is one of boxing's top young fighters. He is 26-0 with 16 knockouts and successfully defended his WBC lightweight title on Feb. 16 by knocking out Gavin Rees in Atlantic City.

He is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and has been one of the stars of the HBO stable. On Monday, though, HBO severed ties with Golden Boy and Broner's status is unclear. He has referred to himself on social media as "Mr. HBO Boxing."

Adrien Broner (R) connects with a right on Gavin Rees on Feb. 16 (Getty Images)