Floyd Mayweather Put ‘Adopted’ Son In A Chokehold

Floyd Mayweather may have used his “adopted” son as a punching bag ahead of his championship bout with Manny Pacquiao, according to a report.

The 38-year-old pugilist allegedly strangled the teen boy he raised as his own at his massive Las Vegas mansion on Halloween night last year, according to a police report obtained by The Sun.

Devion Cromwell, 19, reported the incident after “Money” Mayweather held him in a “rear naked choke” during the Oct. 31, 2014, altercation. The teen is apparently reluctant to press battery charges against the flashy champ, who faces Pacquiao May 2 in long-anticipated bout, because the fighter provides cash for Cromwell and his mom, Mayweather’s ex-girlfriend Melissa Brim.

“We are desperate for Devion to do what’s right and bring Floyd to justice,” one relative told The Sun. “He controls our whole family through fear and money. It’s only a matter of time before it happens again - or, God forbid, anything worse.”

Mayweather had a fling with Brim in the late 1990s before breaking it off in 2000. The undefeated welterweight champ was guilty of two counts of domestic battery against Brim in 2002 - one of several out of the ring skirmishes involved Mayweather.

Despite their rocky past, Cromwell, his mom and 14-year-old sister Iyanna - Mayweather’s daughter - live in a home owned by the boxer.

When the fighter showed up there unannounced last Halloween and ordered Cromwell’s friends out of the house, the teen yelled out, “You’re not my father!” according to The Sun.

That’s when the trained fighter flew into a rage and put on the wrestling hold, which involves “one arm encircle around the neck causing carotid and venous decompression and the other arm on the back of the head applying downward pressure,” according to the report.

Cromwell spoke to cops about the incident, as did the two witnesses, who backed up his account. But Cromwell has only until Oct. 31 of this year to make an official complaint and press charges, a Las Vegas police spokesman told The Sun.

“The victim knows who to contact to provide information,” the spokesman told the paper.

Cromwell may be reluctant to speak up because the boxer, worth some $300 million and expected to make millions more for his fight with Pacquiao, would likely cut off the kid.

Mayweather, who documents his flashy lifestyle on social media, has a long history of altercations with women, dating back to the 2001 attack on Brimm, which earned him a suspended sentence.

By late 2011, he earned a 90-day jail stint for beating down ex Josie Harris, the mom of three of his children.

He served two months in 2012 before his release, where Cromwell was among the crowd greeting the champ on his way out of lock up.

Cromwell would drop in to watch Mayweather train at the gym and sit ringside at his bouts - but the two have barely spoken since the Halloween incident, even though Mayweather has tried to woo him with gifts, The Sun reports.

Despite his track record of domestic violence, his former assistant said she never saw him hit anyone - outside of the ring - in her 12 years by her side.

“I have never seen Floyd physically assault anyone,” Tasha Robinson-White, 42, told The Sun. “I have seen him get angry and upset like most men do - but never violent.”

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