Those of you pulling for Floyd Mayweather tonight, remember who he really is

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To take just one data point among many: At 4 a.m. on Sept. 9, 2010, Mayweather and a friend came into the house of Josie Harris, mother to three of his children. He was not affectionate. Mayweather questioned Harris about dating another man (Mayweather at the time was himself with another woman). He threatened to make her disappear.

Then, with those leaden fists, he struck with a champion’s ferocity in the back of her head. He pulled her off the couch and twisted her left arm. All of this comes from court papers.

Mayweather’s preadolescent sons, Koraun and Zion, heard their mother’s cries and ran into the room. Pretty Boy growled at Zion: You call 911 or run out of the house, and I’ll “beat you.” He also threatened to beat Koraun.

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A fan could root last year for the Baltimore Ravens and convince himself that running back Ray Rice — who hit his fiancée with a knockout punch in an elevator — was not the sum and total of his team.

The virtue of boxing is that it’s mano a mano. You’re not rooting for the Mayweathers; you root for Mayweather. Every boxer is more or less his own boss. The ruling bodies governing this sport are barely conscious.

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These men don’t lack for bravery in the ring.

Outside the ring is another matter entirely. Koraun spoke not long ago to USA Today about that terrible night when the greatest fighter of our time jumped atop his mother and began beating her with his fists.

“He is a coward,” Koraun said of his father.

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